I remember the introduction of the iPhone like it was yesterday: Team Engadget was holed up in a dingy, smelly hotel conference room south of the Las Vegas Convention Center in the thick of CES while our then-Editor-in-chief, a guy called Ryan Block, had taken a quick jaunt up to San Francisco to cover Macworld live. I can’t describe the feeling in that room, the feeling I had as I was preparing our iPhone announcement post — my heart was pounding. It was as though we knew what to expect and had absolutely no idea what to expect at the same time. It’s something I haven’t felt before or since, and I think most of the editors here would tell you the same. For a device — any device — to create that kind of emotion in a room full of jaded gadgetheads is pretty amazing, and I’m honestly not sure we’ll ever experience it again. Not with Apple, not with anyone else. It’s not that there won’t be incredible phones introduced year after year after year — there will — it was the culmination of years of speculation coupled with the feeling that the entire game had just been rewritten in a profound way. – Chris Ziegler
I remember having that same feeling “ following along with Engadget ‘s live blog coverage of the iPhone announcement. Their list of the ten defining gadgets of the last decade is an excellent one, from the folks who know gadgets about as well as anyone. It ‘s a great stroll down memory lane for anyone who ‘s a gadget nut and has been for all or part of this past decade “ and I don ‘t think I disagree with any of their picks.
Go check it out at:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/ten-gadgets-that-defined-the-decade/
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