http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/ Engadget Comments for 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/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
Hate to burst its bubble, but the iPod Touch has got nothing on the DS/PSP in terms of handheld gaming. It has a lot of 'nice' games, but it hasn't got anything in the league of, for example, the recently released (for you, or 'to-be-released-in-May, for me :( ) Pokémon Platinum. I haven't seen a single bit of anticipation or hype for anything out on iPod Touch =X]]>Mar 30th 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
Dude, it's not Microsoft hate. Microsoft just keep making lazy, Me-Too products that don't work all that well and Steve Ballmer is at the helm. What else do you expect?

And the Zune may or may not be better than the iPod Classic, but really who cares? Apple has a better product in the iPod touch and a bigger and better ecosystem. They have more music, TV shows, movies, games, accessories. I mean, does the Zune even have any kind of video on the Zune Store yet?
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Obviously, the true benchmark of what product is 'best' are sales. I doubt apple's sales in any category but smartphone and the unibody MBP are stellar enough to warrant those other awards, especially display and storage.]]>Mar 30th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
Dude, PSP/DS are out dated and over-played. The PSP is a joke. The DS is pretty sweet, but old. The DSi will take the cake next year by far. The iPod Touch kills the DS with functionality and everything. Who cares about Pokemon...it has been the same thing since the original.

And I agree with Paul about Nick.]]>Mar 30th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/What this guy says. I have both collecting dust for quite some time now. UMD really is a fail and the DS games might have been fun at times, yet they were usually missing something. I would say that the iPod Touch/iPhone actually were the handheld of 2008. I can't really recall anything where DS/PSP fans had something to be excited about (OK, maybe DSi announcement and tons of PSP2 rumours). But if you look at it, handheld gaming is kind of a joke. Usually people want to play games on the go when they are bored standing in line or in a car for a couple hours, which IMO, Apple has kinda nailed down. (I sit in a car a shit load of time and on the bus as well and can't imagine carrying my PSP or DS as well as all my other stuff).
Nintendo has now got the DSi, so they have some momentum again, but Sony really NEEDS to release something new if they want to have something in handhelds. Still, the best one would be a PSPhone. I mean we are in the times right now where we are used to have as much crap stuffed into one shell (ie iPhone or many other smartphones). If Sony would release a PSPhone without UMD, a touchscreen as well as normal controls (2 nipples! :p) then I will seriously consider buying it (if the games would be any fun of course.)]]>Mar 30th 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/



]]>Mar 30th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/"Microsoft just keep making lazy, Me-Too products that don't work all that well and Steve Ballmer is at the helm. What else do you expect?"

I'm curious, what's your source on your claim that they "don't work all that well"? From your false claims about the zune in your post, I'm guessing you've never used one or even seen one before. Actually, between the 5 or 6 people I've known with zunes, nobody has ever had a problem with them and they've always worked quite well. Also, let's not forget that microsoft put wifi in the zune, which apple mocked and said shouldn't be in a music player and then quickly announced the iphone/ipod touch which also had it.

"And the Zune may or may not be better than the iPod Classic, but really who cares?"
Umm, well since the zune is better than the iPod Classic, wouldn't that mean it's inherently NOT the worst gadget of the year? Thanks for arguing with yourself I guess...

"They have more music, TV shows, movies, games, accessories. I mean, does the Zune even have any kind of video on the Zune Store yet?"

Actually, yes, they've had both music videos and tv shows available for something like 2 years now.]]>Mar 30th 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
they win in nearly every category they can be entered in and i think overall they win.

Woop. and everything diserved to win, all rightfully placed.]]>Mar 30th 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
iPhone 3G? Well, obviously it wins. Unibody MacBook Pro? Hell yeah. Totally deserved.
But desktop of the year? Display of the year? Storage device of the year? I have my doubts.

The iMac is (without a doubt) a great piece of kit, but its abject rejection of upgradeability frustrates me to no end.
The Apple Cinema Displays are stunning, to be sure, but I doubt very much that they're worth the price. Maybe "value" isn't the deciding factor, but it's hard for me to swallow that a monitor that costs almost twice as much as nearly-as-good monitors really deserves "Display of the Year, especially since that particular monitor has also declared DVI, mini-DVI, and micro-DVI obsolete in favor of its proprietary Mini DisplayPort.
And the Time Capsule is a good idea, but I think it's one that's just as well implemented by connecting any external hard drive (or collection of external HDs) to a wireless router. Again, I think Apple's bold-faced rejection of upgradeability ought to bother us consumers.

Hell. Sorry for the rant. I'm not saying anybody's wrong. I like Apple products, and I love OS X. But Apple's consistent choice of proprietary and non-upgradeable solutions over popular, established, and upgradeable standards isn't always as much in the customers' best interest as Apple would have us believe. I think choosing "brushed aluminum" in spite of those problems is probably the reason we Mac users get a reputation for being rich, computer-ignorant, hipster fops. Come on, guys.]]>Mar 30th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
I would also make a similar argument about the appearance of the Wii as Game Console of the year. The device has long since lost its luster for most people who own them, and the dearth of quality titles has gone beyond "worrisome" and is now in "ridiculous" territory. Both Sony and Microsoft made far more advances in '08. Not just in terms of content, but significant firmware improvements, hardware refreshes, and price cuts as well (none of which the Wii saw in '08).

A cult following does not qualify as evidence of a superior product.]]>Mar 30th 2009 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
The iMac has been wildly successful since it's first launch in 1998. The Apple Cinema display has built in iSight camera, giving it a decided edge over other displays. Doesn't look biased at all.


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a) The editors did choose the 360. It was the mindless fanboys in the user poll that chose the Wii as well as voted for Apple products in every category possible.

b) We're not complaining about the outcome. We're complaining about the process. Can you honestly look at the results of the user awards and say that they were the result of people seriously voting on what they thought was the best product in that category for the year? Of course not. It's a bunch of 15 year-olds (or people with the mentality of 15 year-olds) extending some imagined brand war (in which expressing affinity for a product is viewed as equivalent to pledging loyalty to the manufacturer for life) into yet another space.

Yes Apple and Nintendo both have products that deserve recognition (notably the Wii Fit, iPhone 3G/iPod touch, and Macbook). However, it seems that every well earned user award is accompanied by one that is near laughable (The aluminum iMac debuted in mid 2007 for Christ's sake).

I don't expect everyone out there to have the same exact taste in hardware as I do. Nor do I particularly care about the results of these awards. I'm just tired of seeing petty, adolescent, fanboyism masquerading as intelligent discourse and the accepted "party line" on every single website I visit.]]>Mar 30th 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
I think you need to read my last comment again. I acknowledged that the editors chose the Xbox 360, which debuted in 2005 by the way. If you really want to expose the problems with this poll, why do you limit your complaints to the products you don't like?

Xbox 360: released in 2005

Zune: debuted with 2006, current version in 2007, with minor revisions in 2008.

Your bias is showing.


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Pre should have gotten the "most anticipated gadget of the year award" by both readers & editors]]>Mar 30th 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Apr 1st 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
It's like voting for prom queen or something.]]>Mar 30th 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
seriously, i think people just searched the word apple or Nintendo with ctrl f and then checked each one without reading. and then made sure that Microsoft wasn't checked in any of the good categories. Seriously people, Zune 3.0 was the WORST gadget of the year? it might have some bad parts but the Worst gadget of the year?

Just ask yourself this. if, even if the ipod currently existing and if the zune didnt exist, and then apple said they are releasing a new nano, and it is EXACTLY what the $70-100 zune model is right now.. except selling for 150-250... (obviously, with no lack of half eaten fruits...) would you still say that it's the worst gadget of the year? If yes, then i respect your decision. if no, then you should look into the mirror and think about who you have become.

ps. ever wonder why the whole apple store is made out of glass front, wasn't the life without walls microsoft's thing. so much for windows.]]>Mar 30th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
loving the Brock Samson...]]>Mar 30th 2009 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
If the IPhone 3G was the first IPhone it would absolutely be worthy, but as a successor that had missing functionality, there was nothing that made it innovative like the first gen was.]]>Mar 30th 2009 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/speaker system, a Kensington security slot, three USB ports and resolution of up to 920 by 1200 pixels.


In other words, it's a pretty impressive monitor.


]]>Mar 30th 2009 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone/]]>Mar 30th 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/ipod touch best pmp/mp3 of all times. people have voted ,.,.,winmo fans will have to wait till march of 2010 to see if zune kills touch or if zune phone,.,lol,kills iphone 4g..seriously doubt it,,n have silenced all.!!!!!!!]]>Mar 30th 2009 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
I am so SICK of all the Apple fanboies who care to be the papier mache that sticks to the bubble ever expanding over 1 Infinite Loop. You guys may protect the bubble from bursting but a bubble is a bubble and soon as any competition comes along that bubble will disappear so fast your fanboyism will crash and burn. The Pre beats the iPhone (3.0 OS might I add) down with multitasking alone, the iPod's competition is coming along from the disappearance of DRM in iTunes and other online music stores, and don't even get me started on the BS that is the new Shuffle - I could see they had them in the Apple Store the other day but they weren't advertising them or letting people demo them because they're ashamed of what corporate had wrought.]]>Mar 30th 2009 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Iphone will take ALLLLL fANBOYS ALIKE N EMBRACE WITH OPEN ARMS.]]>Mar 30th 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
Still, I doubt that it was the nuanced eye of graphic designers that pushed the ACD to "Display of the Year" status. Also, the same folks that're best qualified to appreciate the ACD's color-reproduction accuracy are pretty likely, I think, to hate the glossy-only aspect of the displays.

I don't know. It's price does reflect its quality. It is an awfully good monitor. And the isight and all are compelling features. But the Mini DisplayPort argument still stands, and I'm still not convinced that the "Display of the Year" title came more from the ACD's technical merits than its style.]]>Mar 31st 2009 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 31st 2009 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/I'm a 15 year old an I take offence to that. Just because I like Apple products doesn't mean I'm stupid enough to vote the iMac, Cinema Display or Time Capsule as winners of their field. That being said, it seems that many of the categories were unnecessary to begin with, and perhaps all that was needed was 'Gadget of the year', 'Runner Up' and and most anticipated for 2009.]]>Mar 31st 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/I'm sure that category was meant to be POPULARphone of the year...]]>Mar 31st 2009 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 31st 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/I have not lost all respect for Engadget its self, but I have lost most of my respect for the voters. But this is not an issue for frequent readers and such, but only once a year when all the idiot fanboys who decide to vote for the products that they hear about the most. If they have not tried the product or even looked at the features of the product they are voting for, they should not vote. It's their right to do so, but they are just making products that deserve the awards not receive them. This problem will happen every year, but I hope that people will realize their large amounts of bias and actually look up the other products and see if the item they are voting for really deserves the award.]]>Apr 1st 2009 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/=/]]>Apr 3rd 2009 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/
What has change in your life since this "vote for your favorite apple product" poll. Me, not much, still didn't go out and buy a macbook in exchange for my Ps3. Don't get me wrong, both has the ability to go online and surf the web.]]>Mar 30th 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/Mar 30th 2009 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/the-winners-of-the-2008-engadget-awards/



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