The Engadget Mobile Podcast is live at 12PM ET!

We’re back, and as they say on pretty much every late-night TV talk show ever made, we’ve got an excellent show for you. We’ve invited on a couple distinguished guests to discuss the Nexus 5, phones with curved displays and quite a few other topics: AndroidCentral Editor-in-Chief Phil Nickinson and TechnoBuffalo President and Editorial Director Jon Rettinger! This promises to be a fantastic hour of mobile opining, so come join us in the chat room below at noon.

November 21, 2013 12:00:00 PM EST

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If you’re reading this, you’re an early adopter

When Engadget launched, almost 10 years ago, we had a pretty simple mission: We followed tech news obsessively for readers who took technology as seriously as we did. Engadget was the site for tech enthusiasts, early adopters and unabashed gadget fans.

Over the past 10 years, a lot has changed. But as we get ready to embark on our second decade, we still have a pretty simple mission: We’re here to serve the early adopter — the early adopter in all of us.

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Engadget is getting a whole lot bigger: profiles, forums, product database, and so much more!

Engadget is getting a whole lot bigger profiles, forums, product database, and so much more!

A few days ago we launched the best designed version of Engadget ever, and today we’re about to get bigger. A lot bigger.

Back in 2008 when Peter Rojas and I departed Engadget to found gdgt, we had a hunch that the future would be driven by the intersection of social, interest, and product graphs. Today we’re bringing it all home, integrating the best of gdgt into Engadget.

This means Engadget readers will have access to user profiles, forums + Q&A, and a massive, highly organized product database (among many other things). Finally.

Not only is this by far our biggest launch ever, it also marks a major turning point in our history, redefining the Engadget of today and laying the foundation for the Engadget of tomorrow.

I can’t wait to tell you everything about all the new stuff Engadget can do for you, read on!

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Say hello to the new Engadget design and logo!

Say hello to the new Engadget design and logo!

Engadget breaks news all day long, but today we’ve got a little of our own. I’m really excited to announce that over the next few days we’re rolling out some of the biggest, most important updates ever to launch on the site.

Our goal is nothing short of making Engadget the most useful, advanced, and thoughtfully designed place on the internet to learn about personal technology. Step one on that path launches today: a dramatically simplified new site design, and a fresh new Engadget logo to go along with it.

Then, in a few short days we’ll be launching a ton of new functionality to take advantage of this all new design, including user profiles, forums, product lists, product comparisons, user reviews, price alerts, and much more.

I can’t wait to tell you all about it. Read on to learn more.

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Techi: The Unified Platform For Tech and Media News

If you’re like me, then every morning as you drink your coffee you also try to use that time to stay in touch with the latest happenings in the world. The Daily Telegraph, TechCrunch, and The Next Web are probably some of the first ideas that cross your mind as you log on the internet. By the time breakfast is over, you haven’t even made it halfway through the stories from the Technology section of all those sources.

Techi has the potential to satisfy all the inquiring minds and to quench every Web designer or Web developer’s hunger for information. It’s a good idea to place Techi in your bookmarks, but it’s an even greater idea to subscribe to its newsletter, because this stellar service rounds up headlines from all the major sources so that you no longer have to engage in a daily odyssey for brand-new technology, media, and design topics to satisfy your curiosity.

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If you navigate to Techi’s homepage, you’ll see what it’s all about. Basically, Techi is a platform to which only the best and most relevant news from the tech world make it. These stories are attentively extracted from the vast expanse of the internet the minute they appear and summarized in snippets, so that readers can preview the featured article, review, or piece of news before redirecting towards the full text.

What is more, Techi also publishes exclusive articles written by their own skillful contributors. The exclusive stories aren’t part of another setting, but converge with the non-exclusive content to enrich specific centers of interest, such as software, hardware, politics, and lifestyle. The most popular stories coming from both planes of origin can be filtered and displayed separately.

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Techi’s newsletter takes all the main events of one day and delivers them at your doorstep in an email. Thus, you end up saving a lot of time, and you’re left with a reliable means of keeping track of all aspects surrounding the modern world’s development.

Electronics Engineering Books for Free

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With all the talk about gadgets and consumer electronics, one may wonder how the technology come about. Enter electronics engineering. http://www.gobookee.org contains tons of titles on electronic and communication engineering for free, so you can keep up with the behind the scenes and understand how things work. This ultimate web-based library offers thousands of free books to read for free online, and it contains other categories as well like arts, business, computers, family, food, gadgets, health, law, medicine, professionals, reference, science and sports. No longer you have to be in the dark and depend on big businesses to make you stuff, you can start the drawing board and get into gadget design yourself too.

Behold the Infinite Looping Glory of GIFmodo

Behold the Infinite Looping Glory of GIFmodo

We’ve been waiting for this day for months. Until now, it had lived as nothing more than a whisper of a dream—a fantasy. But today and without further ado, we proudly present to you the bizarre bounty that is and will forever be GIFmodo.

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Apple Expected to Announce iPad Updates at Event Next Week

Apple Expected to Announce iPad Updates at Event Next Week

Apple sent out invites to its next product-filled media event, which will be held on October 22. We’re expecting a whole lot of iPad news and OS X Mavericks on the agenda.

    



Sanko HESPK34A Rotary Lightning Cradle Speaker

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Sanko is bringing you their latest Rotary Lightning Cradle Speaker, the HESPK34A. Designed specifically for iPhone 5/5S/5C and iPad (4th generation), this USB-powered device is equipped with a Lightning dock connector, a USB port and an SD card slot on the front panel, an adjustable 90-degree rotating stand and two built-in 3W stereo speakers. The HESPK34A retails for 5,980 Yen (about $60). [Product Page]

Changes coming to Engadget’s RSS feed

Hey there, Engadget’s main news feed will soon be changing over to a new version featuring excerpted content. You’ll still get the headlines and a good chunk of each post, but for those wanting the full story, you’ll need to click through to the site (which has been the industry standard way of publishing news feeds for some years now).

For many RSS readers, this actually makes it easier to scan headlines and find the story you want to read. And for those of you reading on a mobile device, our iOS and Android apps (as well as Flipboard) will continue to offer full, unexcerpted content.

We know that there are also some of you who really do prefer to read full content in your RSS reader. Well, good news: we’re still making a full, unexcerpted feed available for you to subscribe to here.