Samsung Electronics has again reaffirmed its leadership slot in terms of innovation in the tech industry with its latest run at the iF Design Award 2021. The company disclosed in a post that it received a staggering 71 awards at the popular award.

The Korean tech giant clinched two Gold Awards and these are part of a total of 36 prizes the company grabbed for Product Design. The company also clinched 10 awards for Professional Concepts, 11 for Communication Design, 5 for Packaging Design, and 9 for User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), and Service Design.

The main highlight is the Samsung BESPOKE AX90000N air purifier which got the Gold Award honors alongside the BESPOKE City Color Edition. The air purifier is acknowledged for its innovative concept which gives consumers the leverage to choose the purifier’s front part design based on the consumers’ lifestyle.

In addition, the BESPOKE City Color Edition panel collection was noted for its range of colors and materials for kitchen appliances such as refrigerators, ovens, induction cooktops, and others. The colour palettes offered by the BESPOKE City Color Edition are inspired by various cities such as Stockholm, Berlin, and Seoul.

Samsung’s latest QLED 8K TV led the awards in the Product category. Apart from the QLED TV, several other Samsung designs clinched different awards such as The Premiere premium home projector equipped with Triple Laser and Ultra Short Throw technology. Others include the WW8000T Washer & DV8000T Dryer that can be stacked vertically, horizontally, or as a stand-alone to suit the available space. The Galaxy Z Fold2 and Galaxy Z Flip foldable smartphones were also award winners in the product category.

In a related development, LG also announced that it received a total of 31 different awards in this year’s Red Dot Award. LG’s award was for its innovative home appliances including air purifiers and refrigerators.

LG’s new home appliance line LG Objet Collection accounted for six awards at the competition, with recognition in the materials and surfaces category for their implementation of color, material, and finish, LG disclosed.

Apart from the Red Dot awards, LG also reportedly won 28 different awards at the German iF Design Awards. The products that won awards include LG’s home brew machine, wearable air purifier and Micro LED signage.

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The winning entries for the German iF Design Awards 2020 were announced recently. A number of smartphones were among the winning products, including several models from China like the Xiaomi MIX 3, Mi 9T, Redmi K20 Pro, Meizu Zero, among others. Xiaomi’s sub-brand MIJIA has now revealed that a staggering 19 MIJIA products were among the winning products.

The MIJIA brand has gained renown for amazing products that often times get released with affordable price tags. The iF design award-winning products include the MI Band 4, Mijia handheld wireless vacuum cleaner, MIJIA table lamp Pro, Xiaomi Water Purifier Lentil, Mijia Smart Door Lock, MIJIA Instant Water Dispenser C1, MIJIA Rice Cooker, MIJIA Juicer, Mitu Children bicycle, MIJIA Night Light 2, Wireless car charger, MIJIA Laser projector and several others.

The Mi Band 4 emergence as one of the awardees won’t pass unnoticed. This is because the Mi Smart Band 4 is the fourth model of Xiaomi’s smart fitness tracker to have won the award. The Mi Band, Band 2 and Mi Band 3 were also winners in previous years.

Also worthy of note the fact that most of the products on the list are cheap products. The minimalist designs and decent quality definitely played key roles in the choices of selection by the jurors.

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The Meizu Zero was announced last year as the world’s first phone with a “hole-less” design. It did not have a charging port, speaker grille, SIM tray, and even physical buttons. Meizu settled for alternatives such as wireless charging, sound-on-display technology for audio, an eSIM, and virtual buttons that provided haptic feedback via a linear motor. The device was listed on Indiegogo for crowdfunding but failed to meet its $100,000 goal.

Today, Meizu has announced that the Meizu Zero was the recipient of iF’s 2020 Gold Award. The 2020 iF Design Awards had a total of 7298 finalists from 56 different countries. The Meizu Zero and the Google Pixel 4 were the only two mobile phones that received a Gold Award of the 46 mobile phones that were given an award for design.

The Meizu Zero will never be mass-produced but Meizu will adopt some of its features for its future devices. Last year, it was reported that the Meizu 17 will be based on the Meizu Zero.

The Meizu Zero launched with a 5.99-inch OLED display and a ceramic unibody. It had a Snapdragon 845 processor but there were no details about the RAM and storage. It supported 18W wireless fast charge, had an IP68 rating and could survive immersion in water for 2 hours and 30 minutes. It also had dual rear cameras (12MP + 20MP) and a 20MP selfie camera.

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Design is one of the most important aspects of a product and to find out the best in the industry, you have the prestigious German iF Design award. This is one of the highest ranking awards that you can get in the industry and naturally those who are selected in the final round are some of the best designed products in the market.

For over 60 years, The iF DESIGN AWARD has been recognized the world over as a label of design excellence. And among the list of finalist this year, there was an interesting smartphone powered by Ali Yun OS.

The Ali YunOS concept machine sported a very unique look with a sleek design. The highlight of the device was its navigation wheel at one side along with a silver breathing light which gives the phone a very cool look. Specs wise, the phone was expected to feature a 5-inch Full HD display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with fingerprint recognition.

Unfortunately, this is just a concept machine and its highly unlikely that the phone will ever see the light of the day. Still, its good to see that this YunOS concept phone made it to the final round of such a prestigious award. Over 53 countries had entered the competition in a number of different categories. An expert panel of 53 jury were present to decide the winners of the iF Design Award 2015.

So what do you think about the phone. Does it look good?

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