Engadget award goes to the Sony Reader

Alexander Turcic · 05-11-2007, 09:04 PM

The results are in of this year's Engadget awards for the "most excellent gadgets and consumer technologies." The Sony Reader (drum roll please) won the Editors' Choice award as handheld of the year. In the Readers' (reader as in voter) Choice category, the Reader got beaten into second place by the Sony VAIO UX280P.

The most prestigious award went to the the Nintendo Wii as gadget of the year (both Editors' and Readers'). The Golden Raspberry went to Microsoft's Zune player and Sony's exploding batteries.

List of all winners: Link

Related: Vote for the Sony Reader!

Steven Lyle Jordan · 05-12-2007, 08:26 AM

Just curious: Does anyone know if the Zune can play e-books?

NatCh · 05-12-2007, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Just curious: Does anyone know if the Zune can play e-books?

Heh, I'm still not personally sure it plays music.

Azayzel · 05-12-2007, 01:06 PM

lol, I've seen and played with the Zune quite a few times, but haven't done much else since it's at the store. I personally don't like the whole brick/cludginess of the device, who did M$ get to design the case? Hummer? The screen size blows the iPod away, but I've heard unconfirmed rumors of Apple coming out with a full-face screen in the near-term. The Zune is also a bit heftier & bulkier in thickness, but has some neat features like wirelessly sharing your music/videos with people in your PAN (personal area network).

All in all, for reading eBooks I'd stick with my PDA if my Reader ever kicked the bucket (at least for a short time until I got it replaced!).

Leaping Gnome · 05-12-2007, 01:09 PM

Yes, the Zune can display books, sort of. There is a workaround.

TadW · 05-12-2007, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Azayzel

...who did M$ get to design the case? Hummer?

Good one

dhbailey · 05-13-2007, 05:47 AM

Who wants a player which was likely designed by 'Hummer' -- I'd at least want one designed by some company which knew the words and didn't have to just hum.

stxopher · 05-13-2007, 10:22 AM

They have to hum. The lyrics are in a different DRM format.

yvanleterrible · 05-13-2007, 12:16 PM

It plays 'Digging in the Dirt' by Gabriel with brio...

Steven Lyle Jordan · 05-19-2007, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Leaping Gnome

Yes, the Zune can display books, sort of. There is a workaround.

Sounds like the "workaround" is to convert the text file to JPGs. Pfft! MS couldn't do better than that?

05-11-2007, 09:04 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Engadget award goes to the Sony Reader The results are in of this year's Engadget awards for the "most excellent gadgets and consumer technologies." The Sony Reader (drum roll please) won the Editors' Choice award as handheld of the year. In the Readers' (reader as in voter) Choice category, the Reader got beaten into second place by the Sony VAIO UX280P. The most prestigious award went to the the Nintendo Wii as gadget of the year (both Editors' and Readers'). The Golden Raspberry went to Microsoft's Zune player and Sony's exploding batteries. List of all winners: Link Related: Vote for the Sony Reader! Attached Thumbnails

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stxopher Nameless Being	They have to hum. The lyrics are in a different DRM format.

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