The BBC is reporting that the Pentax Optio S was voted the top gadget of the year in the UK. This was the result of a poll of the readership of T3 Magazine.
The Optio S came out slightly ahead of the Apple iPod MP3 player and the Sony Ericsson T610, both profiled recently on Operation Gadget.
In typically British fashion, the magazine went on to choose booby prizes. The ugliest gadget of the year went to the Motorola A830 3G mobile phone, while the most overrated gadget went to the NEC e606, also a 3G mobile phone. Neither of these phones are available in the United States.
The Pentax Optio S is a 3.2 megapixel compact digital camera with a 3x optical zoom. It is going out of production, and is generally characterized as “available while supplies last”. It is being replaced by the Pentax Optio S4, a very similar 4 megapixel model.