Keepin' it real fake, part LIX: Sony nano sure to be a hit

It's nice to see Sony finally stop trying to play catch-up with Apple, and instead begin a mutually-beneficial partnership that leverages the design prowess of both companies. Keep reading for another shot of the all-new Sony nano...

[Meltz; @ May 26th 2007 12:31PM]

Props man, props.

[myscrnnm is an idiot @ May 26th 2007 1:30PM]

Eh... looking in the *dictionary* (you know... official definitions of words) rather than assuming (which is what you're doing), I see that an acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation."

MG is *not* a word, therefore it is *not* an acronym. Neither are those other things that you put forth. Just because *many* people are wrong in making those assumptions, doesn't make you any more right.

Away with thee, troll. I banish thee to the bridge under which thou were sired.

[tom @ May 25th 2007 8:05PM]

i love that they even threw an apple logo on the box. i mean why not, right?

[Scott Neary @ May 25th 2007 9:38PM]

I'd buy 50 of these for x-mas gifts on principle alone.

[ROFLROFFLES @ May 25th 2007 8:08PM]

I'd buy one just for novelty factor.

[Josh @ May 26th 2007 11:32PM]

Wrong - they do. http://crunchgear.com/2006/09/15/the-microsoft-zune-has-a-chinese-knockoff-already/

[Ismael @ May 25th 2007 8:10PM]

Funny that no one tries to make a fake zune!

I always wonder, how can retailers be so easily fooled by this kind of crap!

[Chris C @ May 25th 2007 8:19PM]

Y'know, I'm gonna take a punt and say that these aren't a Sony product at all... Ie, someone's ripping off both Sony and Apple.

[Don Wilson @ May 25th 2007 8:22PM]

Chris C - ya think?

[bobartig @ May 25th 2007 8:25PM]

"This is offensive to both Christians and prunes"

[Jake @ May 25th 2007 8:26PM]

Good call Chris C. They almost had me fooled!

[Chuckles McGee @ May 25th 2007 8:27PM]

Those darn folks at Sony sure tried to pull a fast one on us! Trying to cash in a piece of Apple's pie, I see. Not so fast!

[myscrnnm @ May 25th 2007 8:42PM]

Um, are you fucking stupid? This isn't a Sony product. It's someone ripping off both Sony AND Apple. It's a dead giveaway when there was obviously no thought put into designing the product, and also, the font used on the device is not the real Sony logo.

[Richard Lai @ May 25th 2007 8:29PM]

These are obvious, but I have seen a lot of fake Sony earphones floating around - they are a lot harder to tell the difference until they are in your ears.

[Tom @ May 25th 2007 8:46PM]

I redirect your initial question to you, Mr. Takeeverythingseriously.

[Meltz; @ May 25th 2007 8:53PM]

Hey man, way to sense the sarcasm

[Andrew H. @ May 25th 2007 10:42PM]

haha Captain Obvious reads engadget too?

[Paul @ May 25th 2007 8:47PM]

shit,if the click wheel works and the screen is good i'll take one

[Meltz; @ May 25th 2007 8:50PM]

MP3 PLAY!!!!

[Andrew Harrison @ May 25th 2007 8:50PM]

Glad to see it passed the FCC regulations

[stani @ May 25th 2007 9:00PM]

wow - cool - memorystick support!

[ark_v2 @ May 25th 2007 9:45PM]

AWESOME iPod killer!!!
Hey...what does the MG bellow the memory stick magic gate logo stands for?

[myscrnnm @ May 25th 2007 9:49PM]

Are you fucking stupid? MG is an acronym for MagicGate, an encryption technology from Sony.

[ark_v2 @ May 26th 2007 1:07AM]

I guess you didn't read the comment correctly right?

[Mike @ May 26th 2007 2:02AM]

myscrnnm, are you fucking stupid? that's not an acronym, it's an abreviation. Acronyms are words created from abbreviations. MG isn't a word.

[Wsquared @ May 25th 2007 10:37PM]

Wow, myscrnnm sure doesn't recognize sarcasm when he reads it.

[Jerry @ May 25th 2007 10:40PM]

myscrnnm - I think you need to tone it down - Asking what MG stands is an honest question, I myself - who I'm proud to say knows most acronyms out there didn't have a clue.

No one wants your insluts or your language. Please troll elsewhere.

[Dan @ May 25th 2007 11:44PM]

We get so many of these on trademe (new zealand ebay site), they're like the only ones you can get. They all claim to be Ipod nanos when they clearly aren't. My brother actually bought one and it was total crap.

[myscrnnm @ May 26th 2007 12:03PM]

"myscrnnm, are you fucking stupid? that's not an acronym, it's an abreviation. Acronyms are words created from abbreviations. MG isn't a word."

I think the question should be, "rAe YOU fucking stupid?" MG is an acronym because it takes the first letters of the words to create MG. An abbreviation is like abbr, where you shorten the word. Screw you.

[Mike @ May 26th 2007 12:11PM]

"I think the question should be, "rAe YOU fucking stupid?" MG is an acronym because it takes the first letters of the words to create MG. An abbreviation is like abbr, where you shorten the word. Screw you."

Simply put: WRONG!!!!!!!!!!

[Sirocco @ May 26th 2007 4:35AM]

Furthermore, the Sony device is superior to Apples.

[tekdroid @ May 26th 2007 5:03AM]

no SonicStage. I'm sold! ;)

[Wilson @ May 26th 2007 5:29AM]

wow!
look all the labels on that thing!

[g3n3tiX @ May 26th 2007 5:31AM]

gotta love that golden Apple logo...

[Aaron @ May 26th 2007 6:13AM]

"myscrnnm" has inspired me to preface every reply I make to a comment on Engadget with "are you fucking stupid?". Thank you, good sir.

[Aaron @ May 26th 2007 6:14AM]

...or AYFS for short. Had that thought a second after I posted.

[trainwrecka @ May 26th 2007 11:00AM]

this is just sad

[bobdobbs @ May 26th 2007 12:01PM]

Does anyone know if the screens support more than 262K colors?

[Zyrrael @ May 26th 2007 12:21PM]

Wow, that's even better. rAe YOU fucking stupid?! No idea who this "rAe" fella is though. Everybody Loves rAemond?

[Matt @ May 28th 2007 1:36AM]

Actually, no. Both MG and Abbr. are abbreviations. An acronym is pronounceable as a word. For example, NASA and NIMBY are acronyms. USB and CIA are not.

[Edjr @ May 26th 2007 12:12PM]

Nothing says quality like a holographic 1gb sticker....man I wish I had that....I cant wait until the "sony mix-it up" comes out....

[carl @ Aug 24th 2007 1:50PM]

hmm... about the whole "you're a retard stop posting" thing...

yeah....

[Edjr @ Aug 28th 2007 12:59PM]

wow that quick remark was only about 3 months late, way to keep the quality on posting.


yeah...

[myscrnnm @ May 27th 2007 2:54AM]

"Wow, that's even better. rAe YOU fucking stupid?! No idea who this "rAe" fella is though. Everybody Loves rAemond?"

Apparently the word "typo" is not in your vocabulary.

[Ratchet the Lombax @ May 26th 2007 12:42PM]

In keeping with myscrnnm and posting useless crap that no one cares about I will say this about the acronym thing.

"Initialism originally described abbreviations formed from initials, without reference to pronunciation; but, during the mid 20th century, when such abbreviations saw more use than ever before, the word acronym was coined for abbreviations pronounced as words, such as NATO and AIDS." Wikipedia

So in short myscrnnm YOU ARE WRONG, case in point people write their initials on stuff but not their acronym. Unless you are like me and your initials do form a word, in my case PRO. Anyway it should have been asked "what do the initials MG stand for"

[Myles @ May 26th 2007 1:15PM]

I came for the fake products, stayed for the English lesson.

[myscrnnm @ May 27th 2007 2:59AM]

"Eh... looking in the *dictionary* (you know... official definitions of words) rather than assuming (which is what you're doing), I see that an acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.""

I don't know what language dictionary your using as a resource, but it's obviously not one of the English language. The Webster dictionary (second in definitivity only to the Oxford English Dictionary) defines the word "acronym" as:

a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters

Emphasis on the second definition. I'm right, end of discussion.

[o29 @ May 26th 2007 1:41PM]

Is no one capable of using a dictionary?

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/acronym

Main Entry: ac·ro·nym
: a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters : INITIALISM

There. End of argument.

[Krono6 @ May 26th 2007 2:27PM]

I don't know what everyone's complaining about, APPLE Nano's are so last gen.

[Jorginio @ May 26th 2007 3:43PM]

that "sony nano" maybe was made in a sector of china without license