http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/ Engadget Comments for Vote for the 2007 Engadget Awards! 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/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
Are you kidding me?

Seriously?

Really?]]>Feb 20th 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
How about the SE XPERIA?]]>Feb 20th 2008 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
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.]]>Feb 21st 2008 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 25th 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/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.]]>Mar 24th 2008 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
Even though John Mayer clearly deserved it.]]>Feb 20th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
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.]]>Feb 20th 2008 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
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.]]>Feb 20th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
If I have to hack my phone and potentially brick it and void my warranty, then it does not count as "natively" running applications.]]>Feb 20th 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 21st 2008 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
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.]]>Feb 21st 2008 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
People would actually take an iMac over a Blackbird 002?

Wow.]]>Feb 20th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
"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). ;-)]]>Feb 20th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
But to translate, the Blackbird is worth about 5 iMacs, easily.]]>Feb 20th 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
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.]]>Feb 20th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
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.]]>Feb 20th 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
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.]]>Feb 20th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
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.]]>Feb 20th 2008 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/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)]]>Feb 20th 2008 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/
Run OS X.]]>Feb 21st 2008 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/vote-for-the-2007-engadget-awards/Feb 20th 2008 4:56PM