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Digital Trends Picks Top Tech From IFA 2016, Best Gadgets, Events

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First Posted: Sep 05, 2016 04:52 AM EDT

Online product reviewer and digital news provider Digital Trends pulled all the stops for this year's IFA 2016.

Indeed, Digital Trends deployed its biggest news crew to cover this year's, IFA 2016 with nine of its best editors, video producers, and writers assembled in Berlin to review and test the latest gadgets and technologies from major tech companies, including Samsung, Lenovo, Huawei, LG, Sharp, Philips, ZTE, and others.

After days of head pounding and grueling hours of debate, the company has released its top favorites from IFA. Here are Digital Trends' Top Tech picks of IFA 2016 in major tech category.

For the Best of Show Category, Matt Smith picked Lenovo Yoga Book. Costing just $500, the Android-power Yoga Book is a steal, as it its light, thin, well built and sporting  a 1,920 x 1,200 pixel monitor. More importantly, its touch surface is also functioning as its keyboard. Really nice.

Caleb Denison has picked Audeze iSine 10 for the best audio gadget available. She describes the iSine 10 as a "luscious sounding headphone" and modestly priced at $400. The iSine 10 comes with a conventional 3.5 mm headphone cable and Apple Lightning cable with built-in DAC and amplifier.

But PC Magazine has decided that Motorola's Moto Z Play is the best smartphone in that category. Unlike its rival, LG, which uses a modular G5 phone  but was not able to capitalize on it, the Z Play is proceeding with the modular feature up and down, especially with its Hasselblad camera. The magazine expects the Moto Z play to bring the modular phones to global masses when it breaks out beyond its exclusive deal with Verizon in October.

For the best desktop device, it's the HP Pavilion Wave for PC Magazine. HP's Pavilion Wave is being described as a family or kid's room PC that comes with a build-in speaker and capable of eliminating an extra component, yet look stylish enough. The desktop is also priced reasonably making at affordable for its target market.

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