@(Unverified) From the press release featured in the article about this last month -http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/pogoplug-second-generation-debuts-coming-this-holiday-with-en/

"San Francisco, Calif. – November 20, 2009 – Cloud Engines, Inc. unveiled the second generation of the award winning Pogoplug multimedia sharing device today giving consumers more flexibility to store personal content safely in the home and access, manage, and share it from anywhere on the Internet."

@ArtInvent Probably because it's in the press release. It says it in the very first sentence.

"San Francisco, Calif. – November 20, 2009 – Cloud Engines, Inc. unveiled the second generation of the award winning Pogoplug multimedia sharing device today giving consumers more flexibility to store personal content safely in the home and access, manage, and share it from anywhere on the Internet."

@jcritch maybe if you would've looked just a little on engadget for Pogoplug articles like most other sensable people who didn't know what it was did, then you'd know what the f*ck this device was for. I didn't even have to look at another page though. If you would've just clicked on the little button that says "Show Press Release" and read the FIRST SENTENCE you would've known what it was before ever getting to the comments.

"Cloud Engines, Inc. unveiled the second generation of the award winning Pogoplug multimedia sharing device today giving consumers more flexibility to store personal content safely in the home and access, manage, and share it from anywhere on the Internet."

Pretty much nails what the device does right there.

@MiketheVee I currently own a tilt and I'm waiting to get the eXpo in the mail. I've checked out the tilt 2 and the slider is visibly stronger than the first one. If you have the phone open and you drop it you could easily break the slide mechanism. I actually did that not 30 days after having the phone. My replacement has been dropped countless times during the 2+ years I've owned it and the only thing that's happened to it is it has a few scratches around the edge. It still slides great. I would recommend checking out http://www.lgexpo.com/ to get more info on this phone. It's more than what engadget says it is. They didn't mention that it's a 5mp camera WITH a flash, which is pretty important for most people, and they didn't mention the fingerprint reader on the front (the little gold bar) that can be used to secure the phone and act as a navigation pad for the OS. You can also use it for camera functions like zooming in and out, as well as media player functions like rewinding/fastforwarding videos/music. I chose this one over the tilt 2.

@beckhams777 It IS windows mobile 6.5 but it's running LG's S-class interface on top of it. It looks pretty slick.

@kjb434 This could have something to do with what TechDirt was saying a while back when they first reported on this,....Hulu.
http://www.techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20091116%2F1358106957&threaded=true&sp=1
"some of the pressure is actually coming from the cable guys as well (who view Hulu as a huge threat), this will only get worse if, as is widely expected, Comcast completes its purchase of NBC Universal."

Hulu is owned only in part by NBC so this could be at least some of the reasoning behind it.

I didn't get one because (like so many others) I didn't want to downgrade. I bought the Final Fantasy Dissidia PSP pack instead with the 3000. I would've bought the Go at $250 if it had the following:

-dual analog
-more memory
-faster processor
-better flash support
-TOUCH SCREEN (is that seriously asking for too much??)
-Constant connection to a wifi access point
-better button placement
-the ability to use the accessories I've been buying for my PSP-1000 since launch date.
-Since there is no UMD drive, a UMD exchange program (in the USA) would be nice. I've read that they have it in Europe, but the program won't cover the US. (If anyone knows different I'd like to know)
-32GB storage

I'm sure if I actually bought one instead of just trying one out, I'd find more that I'd want. Some of these things are issues I have with the PSP-3000, but Sony isn't charging $250 for the core system and it's not a major change from the 2000 or really even the 1000.

I like one of the other commenter's suggesstion to have games released on a memory stick for the Go. I downloaded Final Fantasy 7 and that took up something like 1.2gb on the memory stick. If I were to also have to install the PSP games on the Go along with the music/movies/pics I think I'd run out of space pretty quick. Without being able to trade in UMDs at Gamestop for credit on newer games, I'd eventually run out of room on the PSP Go and would have to start buying memory sticks just to put my games on them. That...or just not play them.

Until the Go either comes down in price (to that of the 3000 or lower), or they get at least a touch screen, I'll stick with the 3000 model that I have now.

Hate to break it to you, but the license for the viewer in the phone's software expired in August. I was curious as to why it wasn't working for me recently and then I checked the phone's "Licensing" option which says a license is only needed for the viewer and it expired on 8-8-2009. They don't even let you download it from their site anymore.

@robin
I've been using MyMobileR for quite a while now and both it and the redfly viewer have their ups and downs. I like the viewer because it actually changes the resolution of the phone's screen just like the hardware version of the redfly does. You can watch video on it at sort of good quality, but it's better than with mymobiler. The web browsing is pretty nice on it too, along with using the office stuff and some of the other apps. The downside with that is that you have to have active sync running and connected to the phone before you can connect to the viewer. What sucks about that is that the new version of active sync makes your phone go through your computer's internet connection. If you are like me and work somewhere that filters the internet with a proxy server, you won't want to do this. It also changes the proxy setting on your phone to match your computer's setting. You can use the viewer with a netbook and get pretty much the same functionality as the actual redfly, plus you'll have all of the storage and functionality of a netbook as well. I see this as only being really handy if you couldn't tether your phone to your pc.

MymobileR is freakin awesome for what you can do with it along with the fact that it's free. You can take screenshots of your phone and even make a video recording of what you are doing on the phone. You also don't have to use activesync to connect. You can if you want but you don't have to. If you do use it, the phone auto connects and starts mymobiler, but other wise you have to do it manually. I don't mind that at all. I do an IP connection to my phone and it's remoted. You can use your keyboard and mouse with your phone and even copy/paste text from the pc to your phone and vice versa. The issues with mymobiler are that video is VERY choppy, and when you connect and view at 100% it's the actual size of your phone. You can zoom in, but it's just that...a zoom. It doesn't change the resolution; it just makes things bigger. These are things that are easy to deal with. Since IMing isn't allowed through our network I use my IM program on my phone through mymobiler.

I would take mymobiler over the redfly viewer any day, but it would be nice to be able to use both.

The coverage comparison is not actually an "informative one" as you say. If you go read about the lawsuit between AT&T and VZW it's explained that the map they use for AT&T is just the 3G map and doesn't show that the spots not covered by 3G are actually covered by the vast 2G network that AT&T has. According to the same article, the map that VZW uses shows their network which is ONLY 3G. So in contrast to the AT&T map, the blank spots on the VZW map is a lack of any coverage at all. That's the point of the lawsuit. The company I work for uses Verizon and AT&T, and when someone who has a verizon phone can't get service at in their home, they are switched to an AT&T phone which works great. They use verizon because of the discount they get from VZW, but when users can't actually get service where they live they go to an AT&T phone.

To second what Andy Anonymous said, RadioShack will have lower prices for the iPhone. I used to work there a few years ago, and a friend of mine works there now, and they still have the lowest prices on AT&T phones. They have more "Free with contract" phones than any AT&T store I've ever been to. Their accessories are cheaper than AT&T stores too, and they're they same accessories. I went to an AT&T store to find a microSD card for my Tilt, and the cheapest card was a 2GB for around $30. I went to RadioShack and got one for $15 (at the time was the lowest price). I went to an AT&T store to help my friend get a phone and when she couldn't find one there, we went to RadioShack (like I wanted to first) and found phones for free that the AT&T store was charging a few hundred dollars for.

RadioShack has their own rebates along with the AT&T rebates for new contracts, so it may very well be that you can get the iPhone from RadioShack for next to nothing.