Everyone today loves to own gadgets and often spend time reading technology reviews on a variety of products.  You may look at reviews relating to a mobile phone or a washing machine or a car. You like to know what other people think about the product and how users have found the product. You want to know if a product developed glitches after use or provided a trouble free experience.

Yet, you do not have to be an expert on the technology to write a review! You may just be an user who can differentiate between the features of a product and compare it with another in the same niche market. What does x gadget offer me that y does not and so on…

So, here are a few guidelines for those who want to do technology reviews. Here is what you do if you are writing about a piece of hardware–say a mobile phone or a laptop computer:

• Detailed specifications of the product under review;
• The release date;
• The niche market;
• The competition in the niche;
• A comparative comment on the product vis a vis the competition;
• Performance metrics;
• Problems noted;
• Recommendation to the purchaser or user

If you are reviewing a software product:

• The purpose of the software;
• Who will find it useful–the user base;
• The niche market and the competition;
• The operating system and other environment specifications for installing and loading the software;
• Hardware configurations and issues if any;
• The features and functions of the software with screenshots;
• The problems noted during runtime and speed of resolution by the software designers;
• Summary and Recommendation;