Indeed it was a banner year here at Engadget — completely thanks to you, of course. Google may have its Zeitgeist, but we figured we could at least cap things off with a few lists of the most well-read posts of 2007 (and a few stats, to boot). See you in 2008!

Top 20 most trafficked posts of 2007 (in order)

1. Verizon’s Juke, Pearl, Venus and Voyager get outed
2. Verizon’s LG Voyager heads up newly official fall lineup
3. Hands-on with Verizon’s new fall lineup
4. Cingular’s Treo 750, Blackjack and 8525 get WM6 treatment
5. Verizon XV6800 in the flesh
6. HTC’s Touch with TouchFLO — the Elf with new 3D sweep interface
7. Skin your WM5 Pocket PC to look like the iPhone, get sued by Apple
8. LG’s VX10000 and VX8800 touchscreen spyshots?
9. iPhone Q&A for AT&T employees
10. Hands-on with RIM’s WiFi-equipped BlackBerry 8820
11. Fake iPhones: a retrospective
12. LEAKYMOTO: say hi to the MOTORIZR Z8
13. Samsung i760 for Verizon: yep, it runs Crossbow
14. Hands-on with the Sprint Mogul by HTC
15. Hands-on with the LG Voyager
16. Hands-on with the AT&T Tilt
17. iPhone & LG KE850: separated at birth?
18. LG’s KE850 PRADA official: iPhone says, wha?
19. “Shuriken” is Sharp’s Sidekick 4?
20. New Chocolate: LG’s VX8550 for Verizon comes into view

Click on for a few more stats after the break.

Top 20 most trafficked posts during 2007 (in order; non-2007 posts in bold)

1. Verizon’s Juke, Pearl, Venus and Voyager get outed
2. The LG KE850: touchable chocolate
3. Verizon’s LG Voyager heads up newly official fall lineup
4. Verizon UTStarcom XV6800: the CDMA TyTn lives!
5. Verizon’s Samsung i760 out-BlackJacks the BlackJack?
6. Hands-on with Verizon’s new fall lineup
7. Nokia’s aeon “full surface screen” cellphone concept
8. Cingular’s Treo 750, Blackjack and 8525 get WM6 treatment
9. Verizon XV6800 in the flesh
10. Review: Cingular 8125
11. HTC’s Touch with TouchFLO — the Elf with new 3D sweep interface
12. The Boy Genius Report: The BlackBerry 8800
13. Skin your WM5 Pocket PC to look like the iPhone, get sued by Apple
14. LG’s VX10000 and VX8800 touchscreen spyshots?
15. iPhone Q&A for AT&T employees
16. Hands-on with RIM’s WiFi-equipped BlackBerry 8820
17. T-Mobile Sidekick 3 hands-on!
18. Fake iPhones: a retrospective
19. LEAKYMOTO: say hi to the MOTORIZR Z8
20. Samsung i760 for Verizon: yep, it runs Crossbow

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Original post by Ryan Block

Filed under: Cellphones

There’s certainly no shortage of solutions out there for those looking to control their home from their cellphone, but it looks like the select few with a HAI home automation system will soon have an app specially tailored to them. Set to be officially unveiled at CES, HAI’s Snap-Link Mobile app will work with any Windows Mobile-based smartphone or PDA, and promises to give you control over lighting, security cameras, heating, alarms, and music in each room of your house, among other things. No word on what it’ll cost, but HAI says it’ll be sold without any subscription fees and should be available by the end of the first quarter of 2008.

[Via CE Pro]

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Original post by Donald Melanson

Filed under: Cellphones

We’re not planning on seeing any sort of confirmation from Sprint on this, but word on the street has it that the carrier has actually halted shipments of the LG Rumor to its retail outlets. Apparently, the handset has a “known issue where certain sets of key presses during startup can trigger a complete erasure of the phone’s firmware.” Purportedly, the device cannot be restored once triggered save for at the factory, but LG is hard at work creating an updated firmware that “removes the code from being accessible.” Once that’s completed and approved, existing users can expect an over-the-air download to be made available, and users to-be can expect the mobiles to start showing back up with the update already loaded on.

[Via PhoneScoop]

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Original post by Darren Murph

Filed under: Gaming

Controller abuse has always been a mainstay of the video gaming existence — no need to blame your thumbs when there’s this hunk of plastic to chuck at the floor — but who knew Nintendo was working such violence into its own official support curriculum? Wired’s Russ Neumeier gave Nintendo support a ring when one of his Wiimotes stopped sensing motion and none of the usual fixes seemed to work. After explaining his situation, the Nintendo rep asked Russ smack the controller into his hand, button side down, two or three times. After being assured that she wasn’t kidding, Russ did as he was told and was awarded with a fully functional Wiimote. We could see why Nintendo wouldn’t go shouting about this “fix” on its official support literature, but it has us wondering if “blow into the cartridge, whack side of NES, insert cartridge, repeat” was the Nintendo-approved method all along.

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Original post by Paul Miller

Filed under: Cellphones

It probably doesn’t come as much of a shock to you that plenty of texting goes down midnight-ish tonight, and naturally the carriers are gearing up for just such an onslaught. Palm isn’t so optimistic about the proceedings: according to a study it commissioned in the UK with lpsos MORI, 70% of people who send messages at midnight experience a delay in delivery, with places like London experience 77% delays, and 23% of Britons waiting over six hours for their text messages to arrive. Palm suggests an IM or email might be in order, and smartphone users will have better luck getting their messages delivered over the comparably unclogged data networks. Verizon seems more excited about the prospect, expecting the 284 million text messages sent last year on its network between 12pm New Years Eve and 4am New Years Day to rise to 300 million. Telstra expects to process more than 53 million messages across Australia, and will have a “small army” of techs on hand to monitor network performance. Canadians are expected to send 50 million texts this year, according to Virgin Mobile Canada, with the average canadian sending two text messages each — double that of last year. However and wherever you party, stay safe out there — friends don’t let friends drink and text their estranged exes.

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Original post by Paul Miller

Filed under: Cellphones

With a red Centro already out the door, it’s certainly possible (even likely) that Palm has a pink one all lined up to follow suit, but we’ll still have to treat this latest pic with the usual grain of salt until we hear something official from the company itself. If SprintUsers forum member TheRobin is to be believed, however, the image above is in fact the real pink Centro, which has been rumored to be on track for a release on Sprint sometime in January of February. If that is indeed the case, we should be able to put all these rumors to rest soon enough.

[Via Gadgets on the Go]

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Original post by Donald Melanson

With each passing year, personal technology — phones, gadgets, media electronics, and more — gets better, smaller and cheaper. With the introduction of the Apple iPhone and other milestones, 2007 was an incredible year. But fasten your seat belts: 2008 is going to be even better. Here are the trends that will fuel the best year in personal tech ever. The Raw Feed editor Mike Elgan predicts that 2008 will be the year of….

1. The year of flash-based superportables
2. The year of free Internet access
3. The year of the home robot
4. The year of hyperconnectivity
5. The year of multi-touch
6. The year of location, location, location
7. The year of reading on-screen
8. The year of social everything
9. The year of haptic feedback
10. The year of cell phone TV

GO HERE FOR THE WHOLE STORY!

Original post by Mike

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We haven’t yet heard of any problems with the RFID tags increasingly being used to monitor inmates in prisons, but it looks like the electronic tags used to keep watch on early release offenders are decidedly less reliable, at least according to a recent investigation into the matter in Scotland. As The Scotsman reports, out of a total of 987 tagging orders issued, there were 285 incidents where the tags failed, with dead batteries the biggest culprit. That rather obvious problem accounted for 185 of the cases, with damage to the unit by the offender, problems with the black box in the offender’s home, and a weak signal rounding out the technical difficulties. That, as you might have guessed, has lead some to question the Scottish government’s practice of relying on electronic tags to monitor early release offenders, but the government seems to be sticking to its guns, with a spokesman saying that “a breach does not necessarily equate to reoffending,” although, as the Scotsman reports, it did recently scrap a plan to tag suspects who were allowed out on bail.

[Photo courtesy of The Daily Mail]

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Original post by Donald Melanson