http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/ Engadget Comments for Compulab's EM-X270 brings DIY to smartphones http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/Oct 18th 2007 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/Oct 19th 2007 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/Oct 18th 2007 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/Oct 19th 2007 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/That's sweet looking. Definitely needs a case though.]]>Oct 19th 2007 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/
Also, as a reply to the previous poster who suggested the new Broadcomm SoC, good luck getting your hands on that if you're name isn't Nokia. Finally, cell phones have been DIY from the beginning, just not DIYWE (without education).

Which brings me to the real point; Engadget either needs to hire an engineer or stop merely reposting material from other blogs indiscriminately, because any time you try to post on something like this* it ends up being more funny than informative. If you reach beyond your domain and make an error, you'll end up degrading whatever journalistic integrity you may have had. Then again, this is the company that killed Apple stock by reporting rumors as truth, so maybe fact checking is too much to ask.

*Like new physics research, which genuinely makes me laugh out loud.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/20/ibms-next-gen-flash-storage-to-feature-spinning-electrons/
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You can't expect much from journalists, though. You tell them that you can create a wave packet velocity which exceeds the speed of light and they'll instantly print "ZOMG GUYS!! SPEED OF LIGHT BROKEN!!!!!111 [pic]". A journalist's job is to bring eyeballs to advertisements not to educate readers :)]]>Oct 19th 2007 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/
I get your point though about their goal of just pushing ads, but I still have a problem with the fact that the person with the megaphone has an implicit authority and they are using it to legitimize misinformation. An occasional error is nothing to talk about, but this is a chronic problem and blogs as a whole seem to be undermining the idea of journalism (and together with Wikipedia, they will put the final nail in the coffin of objective truth). Based on the comments, it doesn't seem to matter much, as most of the people who post here seem to be junkies looking for their next fix of acronyms. This however, is a whole other can of worms, and I don't think this is the forum to discuss my problems with techno-optimism. ]]>Oct 19th 2007 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/compulabs-em-x270-brings-diy-to-smartphones/Oct 20th 2007 5:13AM