The best products we tested in 2025: ZDNET's picks for phones, laptops, TVs, and more

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Welcome to ZDNET's Best of 2025 awards, our annual ceremony of the year's top-performing gadgets and gizmos, from 100-inch TVs to smart rings to AI chatbots that help you get more done.

Over the last 12 months, our team has unboxed, benchmarked, dropped, submerged, and doom-scrolled on hundreds of devices. We have worn dozens of smart glasses in an attempt to understand the next frontier of mobile technology -- while making face-worn geekery cool again. We have tested enough noise-canceling headphones to block out the sound of a jet engine (and, occasionally, our own editors arguing about nits of brightness). We have spoken to so many AI assistants that we remember each one by voice.

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