The 2005 Engadget Awards: Nominate the Portable Video Device of the Year

It’s time for the 2005 Engadget Awards, and we’re asking for your nominations for the Portable Video Device of the Year.

Nominating is easy. Just leave a comment as you normally would with what you're nominating for this category (remember, comments must be validated!). You don’t have to include your reasons for nominating it or any of that stuff, just leaving the name is fine.

Limit your nominations only to devices that were introduced and sold for the first time in 2005 (which means no concept devices or prototypes, though we will allow updated versions of previous products).

Also, products only need to be nominated once to be in the running, so if you’re planning on suggesting something, please make a quick scan to see if someone’s already beat you to it (i.e., please don't nominate anything more than once!). Thanks!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 3:56PM]

Sony PSP / UMD Discs

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 4:00PM]

iPod Video. Unbelievable screen, great capacity, TV out looks very good.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 4:03PM]

5G iPod

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 4:09PM]

No brainer 5G iPod. PSP is too large for a truly portable media device. And UMD=teh sux0r.

[captnred Posted Jan 13th 2006 4:13PM]

Sony PSP

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 4:18PM]

Apple IPOD 5G

[JMWTech Posted Jan 13th 2006 4:20PM]

PSP (Memory stick + pspvideo9=FTW!) DOWN WITH UMD!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 4:40PM]

Creative Zen Vision.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 4:58PM]

Archos AV500 30GB/100GB - Simply put, best in class pmp. Robust player featuring dvr functionality with included docking station, gorgeous 4" widescreen (18-bit-color vs ipod video's 16-bit), excellent battery life which is removable (cnet tested 21hr audio/8hr video), divx & xvid support all in a form factor that is pocketable.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 5:45PM]

Cowon A2

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 6:12PM]

Aye, PSP + Shite prop. memory cards + PSP Video 9 = win.



When the iPod can play me more than one, if that, movie, call me, but until then, I'll take my better battery life, and bigger screen.



kthxbye

[davezatz Posted Jan 13th 2006 6:16PM]

Something other than the functionally limited 5G iPod with small screen... Archos AV500, Zen Vision, PSP, or Dell Axim X51v are all better choices.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 7:19PM]

5G iPod

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 7:36PM]

AV500 all the way. As a video player, the ipod can not match it in any way,shape or form.

[digitalgopher Posted Jan 13th 2006 8:05PM]

PSP

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 8:45PM]

5G iPod

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2006 9:18PM]

Sony PSP

[ran Posted Jan 13th 2006 10:22PM]

As with my audio nomination, I would like to point out that term "Portable Video Device" is too general. Therefore, I will nominate the IBM X41 notebook computer with extended battery. Plays downloaded movies, DVD (its images), my whole music library, plus its a computer with 6 hours of battery life. (The 60GB iPod has less than 3 hours (I tested that), the PSP is from Sony therefore it sucks (Sony=Sh!t), most video players can't play more than 6 hours of life. The most important thing for movies is screen size (in turn to eye strain) and sound, both lacking on iPod and many video portables.

[Agozyen Posted Jan 13th 2006 11:09PM]

Zen Vision/Vision:M 256K Colors, long battery life, great feature set, Divx, Xvid, AVI, MPEG4, WMV as well as MP3 and WMA. Yes iPod is thinner but only has 64K colors and only does quicktime.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 12:48AM]

Archos AV500. 100 Gigs. Sweet 4 inch high contrast high-res screen. Almost Great battery life (almost 6 hours of video, 15 with audio). DVR. Photowallet.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 8:02AM]

Cowon A2

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 11:17AM]

Creative zen vision m



long battery life

great video quality

great sound from your music

best mp3/mp4 player

built in radio u can also record the radio

built in microphone that can record up to 10 hours of what you want

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 12:34PM]

Creative Zen: M



Just about every way better than the 5G iPod.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 12:46PM]

ipod 5g

[ChronoZaga Posted Jan 14th 2006 1:02PM]

iPod (with video)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 1:04PM]

PSP

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 1:29PM]

Archos AV500

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 1:54PM]

iPod 5G - Great screen and large capacity

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 1:56PM]

although the ipod comes very close, I'll have to go with the PSP this time around.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 3:57PM]

Creative Zen Vision:M

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 4:21PM]

iPod Video

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 5:39PM]

Gizmondo.



Pictures, games, movies, on-screen ads, GPS...what's not to like?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 5:43PM]

CREATIVE ZEN VISION M woot patrick... loaded with features... its a little fat but what american isnt? It'll match those tubby Americans :P It looks better it has more features and is ALL AROUND BETTER!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 5:53PM]

iPod Video 5G

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 7:02PM]

PSP

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 8:09PM]

you are all idiots (...ok just the fanboys) stop posting psp and ipod over and over again! some people want to actually see good products posted... not psp over and over again! the umds are exspensive and so are the memory cards, and dont get me started with the friggin ipod! S-M... the psp is to large to be a pmp??? im gonna go crawl in a hole and pray for humanity

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 9:24PM]

Digital Cube's i-station V43



4.3 inch touch screen

native video support for wmv, divx, xvid, mpg

lots of audio support too (including .ogg)

30GB harddrive

Comicbook viewer

Dictionary

Navigation (optional)

6 hours of video

14 hours(i think) of audio.

Can view (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, PDF and .txt files)

Removable (easily replaceable) battery pack



Among other things...i'm sure there is more.

( i don't really care about fm radio or voice recording...blahblahblah)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 9:45PM]

Cowon A2

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 9:54PM]

Archos AV500 - No memory cards, no umd's, no 2.5" screen



I gotta AV400 and it is awesome. this one is about ten times better.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 10:41PM]

IPod 5g video

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 10:59PM]

Creative Zen Vision:M



Superb screen, multiple codecs, FM tuner, excellent sound quality

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2006 4:52AM]

ARCHOS AV700!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2006 7:25AM]

Apple iPod

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2006 2:53PM]

PSP

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2006 11:04PM]

Cowon A2 all the way

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2006 2:47AM]

iPod Video

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2006 5:39AM]

As we are in the VIDEO category

Zen Vision M is the product of the year.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2006 9:19PM]

Creative Zen Vision:m