http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com]]>Feb 7th 2006 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Best, Ryan ]]>Feb 7th 2006 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/]]>Feb 7th 2006 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
I am surprised the PSP didn't win anything. It's my gadget of the year.]]>Feb 7th 2006 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Just trying to say that we should be a bit more thoughtful before we decide to chuck our money about.

Apple is a great company and the 5G a great audio device. Probably right it should be up there as best of the year. But that does not mean every apple device is essential for your needs.

Apple is like Porche. Great engeneering, great experience. But don't buy one just for the badge. Look around some. ]]>Feb 7th 2006 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Regarding the selection: I LOVE how Engadget purposly chose ANYTHING but Apple to avoid being flamed as fanboys. Some of the Apple/Reader picks were absolutely on the money and Engadget goes with some pile of crap (IBM Thinkpad Z? Whatever.) just to avoid looking biased . . . classic.]]>Feb 7th 2006 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Best, Ryan ]]>Feb 7th 2006 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Seriously, a gadget site, that doesn't give one of the best regarded gadgets of all time a nod in ANYTHING?!

Methinks they doth protest too much! Keep the greenbacks coming, Ballmer.

Also, I agree it's sad the PSP wasn't there. There should have been a Portable Gaming Platform of the Year category.]]>Feb 7th 2006 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
anyways can anyone tell me why the ROKR is worst gadget or most dissapointing gadget of the year? My friend has and i think its awesome.]]>Feb 7th 2006 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
It looked to me like engadget made good choices, simply because they didn't give apple every vote like the readers did doesn't mean they were wrong.]]>Feb 7th 2006 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/good job team Engadget]]>Feb 7th 2006 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
On another note, Ryan, it would be great if you could link some of these products to past Engadget articles or something similar.]]>Feb 7th 2006 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Personally I don't care about what anyone else thinks about what I use. I simply don't like to deal with problems (causing severe headaches and bad moods) with my computer or electronic gadgets. THAT is why I use Apple.]]>Feb 7th 2006 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Did some Apple fanboyism go on? Probably, just as much as Apple-hatred. But let's be honest... the G5 quads are brilliant inside and out and fast... the iMac G5 is a more revolutionary product (downloadable TV is the future IMO... while Windows MCE is just trying to make broadcast TV live longer than its useful life.. this is my opinion) , and the Powerbook is still the best blend of form+function out there. Sure it lacks things like a parallel port, but I highly doubt anyone cares.

Also, I'm kinda bummed Nokia didn't win more smartphone awards... the Treo 650? Hello... Multitasking? (and I mean NATIVE multitasking in an OS that doesn't bog down... coughcough WinMobile)]]>Feb 7th 2006 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/-----------------------------

This doesn't make any sense at all. You can download TV on an MCE machine just as easily as you can on the iMac. And you can actually watch and record TV as well, which you can't do with Front Row. Even the functions that Front Row does are not nearly as well done as they are in MCE. MCE looks nicer, downloads album artwork automatically, and has a ton of plugins from the user community. Vista just gets that much better with CableCard support.

I can't believe Front Row was even an option in the media PC category, let alone the winner.]]>Feb 7th 2006 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 7th 2006 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
The Niveus Media K2? Sure, looks great, how many pounds of gold does it take to buy one? Do you KNOW ANYONE that owns one of these things... ya, well lets just say power to the people and if apple can ship front row and keep making upgrades to it (expected) and anyone can use it easily (including your wife or you dont get to connect it to the TV...) then they are much better bets.

my .02

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ALF
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Aside from their intrinsic worthiness, a further explanation of the Apple products prevalence in the Reader's Choice category is likely overwhelming market-share in each of their respective segments, there's an irony for you. ]]>Feb 8th 2006 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 8th 2006 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Ah well, I AM still excited about the PS3, I'm just utterly confused by both Engadget AND the readers picking it.]]>Feb 8th 2006 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
I think most people took that as coming out in 2006...]]>Feb 8th 2006 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 8th 2006 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Keep it real folks, don't buy Apple. =)]]>Feb 8th 2006 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
It says "2006" bozo's. ;)]]>Feb 8th 2006 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 8th 2006 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Ignore me! :D]]>Feb 8th 2006 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
Come on, i don't think front row should even be given the title of media centre, it's in a a totally different league to MCE.]]>Feb 8th 2006 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/Feb 8th 2006 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
And I have to agree with a few other readers, I hate Flash happy websites too, hell I hate Flash altogather for websites, what ever idiot came up with that idea.............As for the engadget staff, they seem like nice guys from what I've gathered from the podcasts/site but their anti-apple bias is a little disturbing and makes me unhappy (although I'm anti-MS except the xbox, so what the hell :). Any device thats unix or unix-alike based is miles more worthy then MS stuff, apple made or not. oh yeah I agree too that if a product isn't for sale to consumers it has no place in the awards, not all of us get pre-production demos.

Thats my view, as for my experience, I've used/owned ipod's and generic MP3 devices, all types of portable video playing devices from ipods to treos. As for computers, I've used/owned all types and brands, tablet, laptop (even had one of the first zenith clamshell xt clone laptops), desktop, OS X, dos, OS/2 2.1,
OS/2 3.0 Warp, Win 3.1, 95, 98, NT, XP PRO, Many linux flavors too. I still have a working IBM Portable PC ( IBM XT PC in a portable case) and collect IBM PS/2 machines (MCA only). And mobile gadgets? I'm all about mobile gadgets, if its small, cool and has electronics in it I'll buy it (anyone remember the Philips Camera Key? or the kensington WiFi finder that actually only finds WiFi traffic, or how about the casio camera watches? yep have 'em all lol)
So as you can see I play with almost as much gadget stuff as the guys at engadget and I've never had stuff "just work" like when you use apple products. The only things with as much plug and play ease of use and reliablity is video game consoles ( xbox 360 excluded lol). And if you doubt the power and flexablity of all-in-one packages like apple stuff go look up some of the homebrew stuff for the Dreamcast or the PSP.

Good Day,
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Plural of bozo, is bozos... bozo's is possesive.

I hope you are happy, I was trying to get through this day with only light sarcasm... now look what you did.

For the record, I was politely informing Jeremy about his error. You were just rude... putz.]]>Feb 8th 2006 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/07/the-winners-of-the-2005-engadget-awards/
lookin at the kinda technology crammed into tht thng and the way it jus keeps growin wid evry update...

nthin against apple....... but i thnk psp wud hv been a bette choice for gadget of the year...

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