  We have an inside joke among the Engadget staff: one of these
days, we say, we'll publish IRL: The Luddite Edition. It's not
that we go home to bunny-ear TVs and VCRs, though for a group of
journalists trained to calculate pixels per Super AMOLED inch,
we're awfully set in our ways. That, and there's nothing like
brainstorming IRL ideas to make a grizzled tech editor feel a
little nostalgic. That's the place Darren was in when he dug up
his PPC-6700 from '06 -- and Lydia, too, who thinks about
ditching Nike+, but won't. As for Billy, he's not wistful; just
biding his time until he can replace his Incredible with
something he really wants. So how good is good enough for a
bunch of tech writers? Meet us past the break to find out.  The
PPC-6700, unearthed  The year was 2006. The carrier was Alltel.
The operating system was Windows Mobile. And honestly, I have no
clue what the version number was during that phase of my life.
All I knew was that my new job was giving me the opportunity to
lay claim to a smartph