(This article is one of 16 parts in our Tech Awards 2024: Editor's Choice content series .) A first for the Tech Awards, we're progressively opening up the Editor's Choice segment to more lifestyle and home electronics categories, starting with Best Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. When we started researching this category, we quickly realised that there were too many brands and contenders, with a wide range of features and prices, making it difficult to qualify everyone on equal grounds.
We eventually settled on qualifying only flagship models that must have both vacuum and powered mopping functionality (as opposed to those with just a static mop pad). If a brand has a model that's sold with and without a docking station, the model with the docking station will be considered. We also wanted to limit the main vacuum unit to under 3.
5kg for usability and manoeuvrability purposes. As this is the first year this award is introduced, we have made some concessions to highlight technological variety as well. Lastly, we're only qualifying models launched between Q2 2023 and Q2 2024 for the local market.
Here are the nominees for Best Cordless Vacuum Cleaner: Nominees: Note: While the list of brands competing in the cordless vacuum space is rather exhaustive, many of them didn't make the cut after considering our above qualification criteria. Meanwhile, a few other brands, like Phillips and Roborock, do have qualifying options; however, they were unable to send us a test unit. They say that .
