Vote for the 2007 Engadget Awards!
Votes will be tallied until Saturday, March 1st; after we've checked for abuse we'll publish the results alongside our own Editors' Choice picks the following week. May the best gadgets win!
Votes will be tallied until Saturday, March 1st; after we've checked for abuse we'll publish the results alongside our own Editors' Choice picks the following week. May the best gadgets win!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
bartoron @ Feb 20th 2008 12:06PM
I was the first person to vote for the Vii on the entire internets. I feel so special.
Dave @ Feb 20th 2008 1:54PM
Way too many Apple fanboys on here...I mean cmon, iPhone 3G is more anticipated then a Google android phone?
Are you kidding me?
Seriously?
Really?
Anthony @ Feb 20th 2008 2:11PM
I agree w/ you Dave. I tried to vote honestly & said that the iphone, video & imac were the most important releases of the year, but I think that Andriod is more important than a 3G iphone (new innards aren't "important", just evolutionary).
derX @ Feb 20th 2008 3:42PM
"2007 Engadget Awards - Most Anticipated Gadget of 2008"
How about the SE XPERIA?
IndiaTech @ Feb 20th 2008 3:48PM
You are special, allright...
Dave @ Feb 20th 2008 4:34PM
Xperia is going to be garbage...HTC is the ODM and did you see the demo video? Looks like a typical HTC qwerty slider with a nice screen and fancy home screen...WinMo 6.1 is nothing to anticipate.
drsilverworm @ Feb 21st 2008 12:35AM
Indeed, how about the SE Xperia? A 3G iPhone? Please, the iPhone was flawed because it wasn't 3G to begin with, we're supposed to get excited about that? Way too many apple fanboys indeed, the 3G iPhone hasn't even been announced.
Xperia, garbage? Honestly, what more could you want from a phone? It may not be your cup of tea but with stats like it has, you'd be ignorant to call it garbage. Furthermore it's a legitimate smartphone that does not need to be hacked to do what you want it to do.
Scribbles @ Feb 25th 2008 10:42AM
APPPPPLLLLLLEEEEEEEEE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT....... i love apple, i love apple
Archdoom @ Mar 24th 2008 5:30AM
@ Scribbles
Apparently, so does everyone else.
So, how long before someone says "Engadget r fixin it so Appel winz lol applebias!!"?
Go on, you know you want to.
farfisa @ Feb 20th 2008 12:08PM
And the Award for "iPhone of the Year" goes to....
Joe @ Feb 20th 2008 12:51PM
Jethro Tull!
Even though John Mayer clearly deserved it.
BrianB @ Feb 20th 2008 1:46PM
Yeah, what happened to the iPhone/iPod Touch Clone of the Year?
dave @ Feb 20th 2008 2:22PM
I thought the iphone was not a smart phone
monkfishbandana @ Feb 20th 2008 3:20PM
Dave, you are correct sir!
My friend has an iPhone and I am astounded at the amazing quality of the screen, the touch responsiveness and the beautiful interface. The one thing it is absolutely not, though, is a smartphone.
Let me upload my documents and other files via Bluetooth, install applications legitimately, upload my own free ringtones, view documents natively and do the other things that a phone is supposed to do in order to be called 'smart'.
Then I'll acknowledge it as a smartphone.
trumpton @ Feb 20th 2008 12:10PM
I thought the iPhone failed to reach a 'smartphone' classification on account if it being a closed, proprietary system with no means for users to add their own programs?
Joe @ Feb 20th 2008 12:53PM
I haven't used a smartphone with Verizon, but based on their treatment of other phones I'd think that this would disqualify any phone on Verizon's network. They kinda tend to disable everything useful that woud theoretically deter us from buying ringtones and "flix" from Verizon.
xbit @ Feb 20th 2008 1:13PM
What's going on Engadget, you called it yourself...
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone/
How comes the iPhone is the smartphone category despite you saying that it's NOT a smartphone?
Remember: This is the 2007 awards, so any SDK that comes out this year doesn't count.
Ryan Block @ Feb 20th 2008 1:32PM
It may not yet have a native SDK, but it can easily run native applications.
tkid92 @ Feb 20th 2008 1:42PM
My BB8830 = smart phone, iPhone != smartphone... the iPhone is a very nice phone and I would have one if i didnt you my phone for more than just media stuff... I am not saying the iPhone is bad, its a great phone for a lot people
RC @ Feb 20th 2008 2:17PM
If there is any phone on there that shouldn't be on there, it's the Voyager. It's a dumbphone with a touchscreen and QWERTY. No Windows Mobile. No Palm OS. No Symbian. No Blackberry. No OS X a la iPhone.
Andrew @ Feb 20th 2008 6:28PM
@Ryan Block
If I have to hack my phone and potentially brick it and void my warranty, then it does not count as "natively" running applications.
nathan @ Feb 21st 2008 4:26AM
As a developer of Palm, Windows Mobile, and native iPhone apps, I can say that the iPhone's OSX is much more of a fully developed OS than either of those (ok, Palm's a joke, but still). I can't wait for the SDK to put an end to this argument (I don't think your points are totally invalid). Also, my crappy old flip phone could download java apps - does that make it a smartphone? No.
Rich @ Feb 21st 2008 6:18AM
"It may not yet have a native SDK, but it can easily run native applications."
A MacBook Pro can run Vista but that doesn't necessarily make it a Windows PC.
Apple do not advertise the iPhone as a smartphone and have done everything in their power to stop it becoming a smartphone.
As mentioned, installing these native applications requires exploiting a security flaw and invalidates your warranty.
I don't see any adverts for Apple on Engadget so I don't know what you gain from misclassifying the iPhone as a smartphone.
puh_fifer @ Feb 20th 2008 12:11PM
I nominate HD-DVD best format of 2007!
Chris @ Feb 20th 2008 12:14PM
*gasp* You rebel!
Grizz @ Feb 20th 2008 12:24PM
That's why I picked xbox for 2007, because that chepo HD-DVD add-on made it look pretty clear to me HDDVD was going to win this war. Too bad in 2008...
Wayne @ Feb 20th 2008 12:39PM
I'm still shocked Tivo HD is going to win "Home Entertainment Device of the Year" for simply catching up with the times. Way to be cutting edge, Tivo.
IndiaTech @ Feb 20th 2008 3:52PM
Agreed. How can we say no to someone who is dying...
Andrew @ Feb 20th 2008 12:13PM
Omg, Apple...quick, vote for it!
People would actually take an iMac over a Blackbird 002?
Wow.
Jake @ Feb 20th 2008 12:31PM
Welcome to Apple's America.
"We'll take slick over powerful every day of the week and twice on Sunday."
"Fanboy" does not begin to describe the Apple faithful. Allusions to "People's Temple" or "Heaven's Gate" come close. (Pre-rational approval and non-rational acceptance of dubious, inarticulate, unspecified or facially wrong claims = cult-member OR Apple devotee). ;-)
Matt @ Feb 20th 2008 12:35PM
Even worse, it seems they would take an XPS One over a Blackbird.
Kalen @ Feb 20th 2008 12:40PM
I was pretty shocked at that too. Most of those people probably have no idea what the Blackbird is.
But to translate, the Blackbird is worth about 5 iMacs, easily.
Someguy @ Feb 20th 2008 12:51PM
Not necessarily defending the iMac, but not everyone is a gamer, the primary audience of the Blackbird...
StrangeBum @ Feb 20th 2008 12:57PM
Damn. Yeah it seems that there might be a little bit of a bias going on around here. However; I did vote for a few Apple devices myself and I've been a Windows/Linux elitist forever. But Apple did some great things last year in terms of the PC market and the cell-phone market.
So, yes, there is an unfair advantage for those products to win. Specifically because Apple-heads are overly zealous about their company's products. But they deserve some of that praise and attention...some of it, mind you.
Anyway, my 2 cents.
Andrew @ Feb 20th 2008 1:02PM
I agree, I myself voted Apple for a few categories - afterall, the iPhone is undeniably sexy.
Just seems like when a company finally breaks the ugly beige PC mold, and creates a super sexy, award winning, PC-Mag 5/5 getting computer, the iMac still wins by a landslide?
Certainly it's a great computer, but it's not Blackbird. I'm just going to convince myself that people don't know what the 002 is, and that's why it's winning.
telepheedian @ Feb 20th 2008 1:49PM
I can't help but notice the fact that the Macbook Pro is beating out the eee as well, is Apple rigging this thing?
Verbatim9 @ Feb 20th 2008 3:43PM
I'm not an Apple fanboy (Apple is as bad as Microsoft when it comes to overcharging for the products they sell)...but I'd have to say yes, I'd choose the new Mac desktop over the Blackbird. I do not want a Dufflepud (straight out of Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader) that uses a million jiggawatts of electricity, with extra ridges for maximum dust collection. I'd vote the Everex gPC as desktop of the year first.
On the laptop front, though...Eee PC is a lot bigger than any Macbook Pro update that happened in 2007...when I asked about the Macbook Pro at my university tech center, they made excuses for the non-user-replaceable hard drive on the grounds that it's been a long time since there was a real overhaul of the Macbook Pro case. So an old design with a minor OS upgrade and some new processor/RAM options in essentially the same case that's been used for too long is supposed to be the "laptop of the year"? Ludicrous.
drew @ Feb 20th 2008 6:46PM
I know what you mean man apple is winning almost every section they're in. Apple makes good stuff but it's not that good.
ZeroCorpse @ Feb 20th 2008 5:55PM
Maybe they should have a category for "Best Gaming PC" because that's all the Blackbird is. The iMac beats it on every other level, and costs the same.
Most of the people voting here aren't voting for computers used to play games; They're voting for computers used to get some work done and be multi-purpose devices. iMac does that. Blackbird is still meant to be a Vista machine with all the negatives that come with that OS.
It's the OS that makes the difference, and the support that comes with running OS X legitimately on Apple hardware.
Andrew @ Feb 20th 2008 6:30PM
What, specifically can the iMac do better than the Blackbird?
How does the iMac beat it on "every other level" except gaming?
Do you think that "gaming machines" can't be multi-purpose? You don't think having all that power will reflect how well it multi-tasks, supports graphic and web design tools, etc?
You're way off the ball man. They don't even cost the same, as you seem to think - the 002 is twice as much as the highest end iMac. The only real advantage the iMac offers is the OS (debatable), the price, and possibly the convenience of having it "all in one". (along with the limitations these designs have)
farukates @ Feb 21st 2008 1:54AM
"What, specifically can the iMac do better than the Blackbird?"
Run OS X.
Mike @ Feb 20th 2008 12:13PM
So far, people would rather have Android based cell-phones than OLED HDTVs? That seems so... misguided.
PiZ @ Feb 20th 2008 12:26PM
I was thinking exactly the same!!
NBShermanator @ Feb 20th 2008 12:32PM
Well people seem to be responding based on what has gotten the most hype recently. There has maybe been 2 or 3 OLED TV articles in the last month or two, while there has been at least an android article every week.
Joe @ Feb 20th 2008 1:01PM
The android-based phones may be more attainable, which I think is being considered by many voters. An OLED HDTV might look spectacular, but how many of us have the budget and priorities necessary to get one? A cell phone, on the other hand, is a lot cheaper and has a shorter lifespan.
tkid92 @ Feb 20th 2008 1:48PM
I don't watch TV... I use a cell phone all day
Louis @ Feb 20th 2008 8:28PM
Yea, I want more of those incredible OLED's, more than some 3G tech for my iPhone or Android phones. Phones are nice, but c'mon, a million to one contrast in a design less than 20mm thick?
Mike @ Feb 20th 2008 12:20PM
I didn't know there were so many apple "fanbois" here. I'm pretty dissappointed.
Mike @ Feb 20th 2008 12:29PM
You haven't been reading Engadget long, have you?
Mike @ Feb 20th 2008 4:56PM
Yeah, I'm new. I've been coming here for about 3 months.