Get of the week: Engadget’s PlayStation Phone story (not bad, guys!)

Can’t you hear the fanboys squealing? This device was made for them. This get by Engadget is nearly as awesome as Gizmodo’s iPhone leak. Well-played, kids. And to Sony: This is a very smart way to get people to use your phones. source

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2007 Apple sets a contract with AT&T to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone, but nobody knows how long.
2008 In the midst of a class-action lawsuit, the end date comes out, and
it’s in 2012. The market begins to evolve.
2010 Engadget finds this
detail and posts about
it, but suggests that
the contract may have
changed. source

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In terms of dumb tech moves, this ranks up there with Palm releasing the Pre the same week as the latest iPhone revision. The CrunchPad JooJoo hit Engadget’s desk today like a lump of coal, and while they want to review it and stuff, they also kinda hit on one of the busiest tech weeks of the year. Something about a tablet computer backed by a Silicon Valley guy with more cred than Michael Arrington. source

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enabled The Mac-oriented technology blog Daring Fireball has never allowed comments, but some clever bastard decided to add them on their own. This will probably end well.
disabled After a rough battle with trolls, super-popular gadget blog Engadget decided to shut off comments for a while, partly to ban certain ungrateful users.

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The idea here is to give individuals a better way to monitor their electricity usage, with the eventual goal set at 40 million installed meters over the next few years. Great idea, guys – or you know, you could just advise people to turn stuff off when they aren’t using it, or not use energy they can’t afford. Just sayin’.
Engadget blogger Darren Murph • Describing the new “smart grid” technology that Obama’s pushing to implement over the next few years. We have a lot of problems with this statement – we understand the politics behind it, and while it’s a valid point (the program is quite expensive), it CAME OUT OF FREAKING NOWHERE on a technology blog which almost never talks politics. To us, it seemed completely out of place and off-message, to the point where it derailed any useful commentary about the post in the site’s comments section. It became less about the devices and more about what Murph said. This is a dangerous thing in blogging. While there needs to be a degree of feeding into people’s expectations, and a degree of breaking them, if you change the game in the middle like this, it can completely turn readers off. If you have commentary on your site, make it an integral part. Are we barking up the wrong tree here on this? • source

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