The decisive reason why the iPhone 13 was not selected as the "best smartphone of 2021" (ITmedia Mobile) --Yahoo! News

"IPhone 13" that was not selected for the nomination

In the "Smartphone of the Year 2021" conducted by ITmedia Mobile in December 2021, "Pixel 6 Pro" was selected in the high-end category and "Mi 11 Lite 5G" was selected in the midrange category. These two models have become the smartphones that symbolize 2021, but this time, unexpected results were also produced. That is, "No iPhone was selected as a candidate." [Image] Android smartphone selected instead of iPhone 13

IPhone, a regular smartphone of the year

The iPhone is a regular smartphone of the year nominated device, with the iPhone 5s in 2013, the iPhone 6 in 2014, the iPhone X in 2017, and the iPhone X in 2020. The "iPhone 12 mini" in the high-end category and the "iPhone SE (2nd generation)" in the midrange category have won prestigious awards. Five awards are by far the highest record. In addition, even in the year when we missed the award, we were nominated every year until 2020. Looking at the ranking after scoring, "iPhone 4s" is second in 2011, "iPhone 5" is second in 2012, "iPhone 6s" is second in 2015, and "iPhone XR" is 5 in 2018. "IPhone XS Max" is in 9th place, and "iPhone 11" is in 6th place in 2019. This means that 2021 is the first time the iPhone has not been nominated since it launched the Smartphone of the Year in 2011. I have been nominated for 10 years from 2011 to 2020, and have achieved excellent results with five awards, so my honest impression is that it is "no way". First, let's look back at the features of the iPhone, which won the Smartphone of the Year award. The 2013 iPhone 5s has been handled by Docomo and is equipped with fingerprint authentication, the 2014 iPhone 6 has been redesigned, and the existence of the first large model "iPhone 6 Plus" (6 Plus is ranked second) ), iPhone X in 2017 is abolished home button, Face ID, organic EL installed, iPhone 12 mini in 2020 introduces 5G compatible and small model, iPhone SE (2nd generation) is as cheap as 40,000 yen It was a big hit ... The second-ranked model, which unfortunately missed the award, had the topic of starting handling iPhone 4s with au and iPhone 5 supporting LTE. Although the iPhone 6s was often evaluated as having little change, it was ranked second because of its high degree of perfection compared to Android at that time. Although it was a low evaluation in 2018 and 2019, the XS / XR in 2018 has dual SIM support and the appearance of a popular model (XR), and the iPhone 11 in 2019 is impressed with the installation of a super wide angle camera and night mode. I have.

1/2 page