Engadget Awards: Best Portable Media Device of the Year

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/the-2006-engadget-awards-vote-for-portable-media-device-of-the/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/the-2006-engadget-awards-vote-for-portable-media-device-of-the/</a><br /><br /></div><em>&quot;Now's your chance to cast your ballot for the 2006 Portable Media Device of the Year! Our Engadget Awards nominees are listed below, and you've got until 11.59PM EST on Sunday, April 15th to file your vote. You can only vote once, so make it count, and may the best tech win! The nominees: Apple iPod shuffle (2g), Archos 604, Creative Zen Vision:W, iRiver clix, Microsoft Zune, and SanDisk Sansa e200.&quot;</em><br /><br />&nbsp;<img alt="" src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/2006_engadget_awards.jpg" /><br />Here's your chance to show your support for the Zune (which, when I voted, was doing quite well) - cast your vote!

[dp]

By "quite well" do you mean a distant second but still getting its ass kicked by the iPod? I guess it's the same as in reality... except Zune is a distant 4th in total US marketshare.

[Jason Dunn]

By "quite well" do you mean a distant second but still getting its ass kicked by the iPod? I guess it's the same as in reality... except Zune is a distant 4th in total US marketshare.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant. With the Zune having, at best, 10% of the hard drive player market, the fact that it was getting a bit over 20% of the votes surprised me - especially given the raging anti-Zune sentiment out there. Nowhere to go but up. :D