Engadget's best of 2026

Engadget staff@engadget.com (Billy Steele)

2 Oct 2026 02:00 AEST Review A judgment of a work or a place. Summary

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During the course of the year, products that receive a score of 90 or higher earn Engadget's Editors' Choice. Now that the year is coming to an end, we've compiled the highest-scoring products across a range of categories, along with commentary on each one from our writers, for our best of 2026.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

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The Sydney Morning Herald Best of cartoons, October 2, 2026 plain

Headline check

There is nothing in this headline a machine can check against the report: no figure, no name and no quotation.

Nothing was measured here, so nothing is claimed. How this is checked

This is a summary. The indicators are not. Every score on this page was measured over the full 2846-word report, which is the only way the numbers mean anything.

How it is written

Niral Score 22 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, jingoistic and 1 more and 5 at zero

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

best14camera12iphone12products10video10features9price9categories8gaming7we've7devices6excellent6offers6product6range6reviewed6well6award5battery5due5enough5every5far5mini5same5though5add4awards4fps4including4makes4need4premium4quality4really4resolution4speakers4updated4want4you'll4available3build3buyers3combination3company3device3displays3end3everything3fast3few3final3get3giving3good3high3improved3instead3keyboard3laptop3and 157 more

Sentiment +0.3 hostilefavourable Jingoistic 1.3 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Mood 53.9 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, religious, sourcing

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Religious 0 not invokedovert Sourcing 0 unattributednamed sources

How the article is written, not whether it is correct. How each is measured.

Measured on Engadget’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

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Also covered by The Sydney Morning Herald, WAtoday, Brisbane Times, The Age. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score
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The same event elsewhere

4 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

The Sydney Morning Herald Best of cartoons, October 2, 2026 Niral 11.6 · mostly calm political 0 WAtoday Best of cartoons, October 2, 2026 Niral 11.6 · mostly calm political 0 Brisbane Times Best of cartoons, October 2, 2026 Niral 11.6 · mostly calm political 0 The Age Best of cartoons, October 2, 2026 Niral 11.6 · mostly calm political 0