You may be surprised to learn this, but we're currently at Mobile World Congress (
MWC) in Barcelona, which is basically the
CES of cellphone shows. We've seen a handful of emails from confused readers who didn't understand why the site was stacked from floor to ceiling with cellphone news -- and we wanted to clear things up. We're not just covering the news because there's a tradeshow going on, of course. There are some huge stories breaking at MWC, and we'd be remiss in our duties if we didn't cover every single one of them. Now, some of you may ask why we don't just carry the news on Engadget Mobile; the simple answer is that we
are covering the news on Engadget Mobile, but the stuff that we feel has crossover relevance and appeal (which happens to be a lot this year) ends up on Engadget Classic as well. If you can't handle the insane and awesome torrent of phone-related news, you can subscribe to a special feed we've set up with Yahoo! Pipes which axes our MWC stories, but to be frank, you'll be missing a lot of really cool gadget news. Hey, it's your call.
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posted Feb 16th 2009 10:20AM
I just want to get a Palm Pre release date out of all this madness!
I was going to make a joke about launching http://pre.engadget.com/ for all the upcoming Pre news and then I went there and it said "coming soon" and I got excited but then I realized that http://sextoysthatkilledmymother.engadget.com/ and http://PaulAChapelAsEditor-In-Chief.engadget.com/ are also coming soon and then I started looking for a new gadget site.
Too much cellphone news on Engadget, maybe. Not enough cleavage? Yes!
Yes, more blondes with headaches and cleavage!
I'm sure the only people complaining are iPhone users.
Same. They need to suck it up.
The difference between this set of news and an apple-esque event is that the stories are generally all about different, unique handsets and software, as opposed to "Wow we got to SMELL the iPhone," "Here's us with Steve Jobs TOUCHING the iPhone," "Did you know XYZ app-nobody-cares-about is coming to iPhone?"
Too much iPhone news......Too much cell phone news......Too much news!
Here's a novel ideal, if you don't like the article, DON'T FUCKING READ IT AND STOP BITCHING!
It never ceases to amaze me to see people whine and complain about things that are totally within their own control to avoid.
I can see where they are coming from though... Why have Engadget Mobile if you are going to post everything here?
I had $500 to spent in a Mobil Phone you know something like a Touchscreen-Androit Symbian-Qwerty-5MBpx Camera-Up to 20 GB store Device , but now with all those news passing by here about Mobil-Tech I have the most dizzy $500 of my entire life.
I am sure the only people complaining ... well I am not complaining about cellphone stories (love 'em!) but I am complaining about tossers like Jason and nerdtalker, who represent the worst of the Apple-hating trolls - Jason doing the usual straw-man thing ("and did you know that Apple fans hate democracy and want to sell everyone into slavery in North Korea?") and nerdtalker pathetically attempting to rationalise hypocrisy, are classic examples of the troll behaviour we see from the Apple-hating crowd, who cannot abide any mention of any Apple device in any context and happily go off-topic in order to make unsubstantiated and incredibly stupid accusations about Apple and its fans.
And then they accuse the Apple fans of being unable to abide any mention of a non-Apple device, and accuse them of going off-topic on non-Apple posts.
Hypocrites.
I'm with nerdtalker -- if they can make an RSS feed for MWC or lack thereof, then I want an RSS feed that doesn't have any "iPhone" tagged posts. :-)
@ Vanilla
LMAO! Try decaf buddy.
Just stare at your Macbook for 15 seconds, bask in it's glow, and you'll feel right as rain...
It's not your fault some people are silly!
Bring on the mobile news! I come here to read about gadgets and would be more pissed of if you didn't blog about them seeing as I don't ever visit Engadget Mobile! Thanks for all the great news && keep it coming!
There is a difference between hearing about gadgets and having to wade through 4 pages of phones to find 3 other articles.
ENGADGET: I would recommend you keep all this cell news over at the Mobile side of the house and then every 3-4 hours or so, just post an article to the main Engadget side of things with a list of announcements and links over to mobile. Similar to how you have a list of topics in the podcast entries, or maybe even the daily round up format would work.
Yeah sure you want us to know abut the latest phones and keep up but the problem is that there is way too many articles. You could condense them down a bit. Also what is the point of having a site like Engadget Mobile if Engadget main steals the show? This event is to Engadget Mobile, what CES is to Engadget main. You guys should stop stealing their limelight and perhaps redirect us over to them for the actually interesting articles. I'm sure Engadget Mobile would appreciate comments running into double figures for the first time in their history.
该干啥干啥去，别傻啦！
Agreed.
脑残
For every iPhone-hugger complaining, there are 100000 Engadget readers loving the barrage of HTC, LG, SAMSUNG, NVIDIA and ANDROID news.
Keep them coming and don't skip a beat.
Scrolling is hard.
I'm sick of seeing cell phone news. BORING! I have my iPhone and I'm content with it.
hello case in point. so happy to see you rear your whiny fanboy head today.
Phones that are announced without a mention of which US carriers will offer them is sometimes frustrating.
I wonder how many announced phones are actually offered by carriers (Verizon, ATT, tMobile), and what the "typical" delay from phone introduction to carrier availability has been recently.
I get annoyed by articles that don't mention which carrier phones will be released on providers in *my* country.
In case you haven't heard , one of the 'W's stands for world...
Keep up the good work Engadget! There isn't too much cellphone news.
they could make a site just for Engadget Mobile news. They could make it flashy and bright pink... but not pink like a cellphone company.
Then again they could stop scooping Their Own Apple Weblog too on all the iStuff.
But hey what do I know.
Is that Kate Winslet?
No, but she is cute.
The girl in the pic, that is.
And Kate Winselt.
*swoon*
girls like that don't read engadget
I thought it was Katherine Hiegl
She looks stressed. I think she needs her neck rubbed...
She kinda looks like a blonde Ashley Judd
Stupid complainers. Keep the news coming. We wanna know mobile info as much as regular tech.
Here's all you need to know about every article:
1. This phone is rectangular.
2. It either has or doesn't have a slide-out keyboard.
3. It has some kind of OS and UI with varying levels of animation.
4. You either can buy, not buy, or can't buy enough extra apps.
5. If the phone isn't long enough for the mic hole to be near your mouth the sound quality will suck for the person on the other end.
6. Whoever your carrier is will probably screw you.
That's very kind from Engadget to offer a RSS without those news. I can't look now on those new phones because I bought myself a Samsung INNOV8 2 month ago and don't want to look on new phones which would make me buy a new one which would be very silly.
"it's your call."
I see what you did there.
lol i didn't catch that until just now
Yes, i was reading the story above this and i said to myself that Engaged is talking too much about cellphones. Yeah, one or two posts a day is OK, but you guys are ODing now.
Most in here live in their moms basement, so they have no girlsfriends, no need for cellphones. We need video cards and gaming system reviews.
Just to be clear and avoid confusion -- if you have a girlfriend, you have much less of a need for a cell phone than if you don't.
I say let them eat cake and keep the news coming. It makes a slow day at work intresting. Also could you find out when the updated touch wiz os is hitting the net?
antoinette would question your use of that expression.
I am so apathetic about cell phones that I don't even have an opinion about one over the other. Does it make calls? Than I'm happy. The articles today are excruciatingly boring to me.
Wait! I do have an opinion. A friend of mine has a Windows Mobile based phone thing. It has two fatal flaws:
1. It's too bulky to fit comfortably in a pocket so he hardly ever has it on him.
2. It's battery is usually low.
None of us ever even call him on it b/c we know it's 50/50 as to whether or not we'll get him.
yeah what i want is a phone with a huuuuge battery, and just does calls and texts.
no cameras
no internet
@Oli sounds like you could be pretty happy with almost any dumbphone upgraded with an extended life battery. I would be on craigslist/ebay if i were you.
i just got given an htc 620 for free... i dont care about new phones
I'd like to see more coverage - specifically - I'd love to see a section here on what HTC, Nokia, BB, Samsung, Sony and Apple have coming to a US carrier near you. While I drool over many of these phones since most of my clients are on Sprint or Verizon I won't ever get to see any of these phones and just about everyone I support on ATT is on an iPhone - they all want to know about the upcoming iPhone which I haven't seen anything on so far.
I should be clear - that isn't a put down of the coverage - I'm very happy with you guys covering all sorts of phone but for those of us still using CDMA - this would be like tons of coverage at the German auto show where you are showing all the cars that are only available with steering wheels on the right hand side of the vehicle. You can put just about any GSM phone you want on AT&T and T-mobile, most of my clients will only buy their phones direct from the carrier.
But simply.. cellphone IS a gadget.
I see no mistake on that and this period there are many cellphone announcements.
So why the apology for ?
One cannot be at two places at once. So if you're focusing on the cell phone gadget other gadgets can't get covered. There is clearly a preference amongst writers for the cell phone gadget, but please do not discriminate other gadgets by focusing exclusively on the cell phone which is the impression you give. BTW, the cell phone gadget is overrated, way over its head, it is not "THE THING TO GET OR FOCUS ON" there are other things that are more trendy, so stop affirming the cell phones are THE THING by writing so many stories about them. Sry for the negative tone, but I feel I am nothing short than reasonable.
i haven't noticed a difference, honestly. cellphone news seems to dominate every day. i sometimes wonder why we even need engadget mobile.