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Consumer Reports top 5 smartphones will surprise you
jkOnTheRun —
... is a great publication, online or print, that does a very thorough job testing, rating and reporting on various consumer products. They usually are good at defining what is important to the consumer and designing criteria for rating products in a given category. It was with great surprise when Matt Miller pointed out that Consumer Reports has released their list of the top 5 smartphones. The surprise is two-fold- some of the phones that made this short list and especially those that didn't make the top 5. ...
Consumer Reports Shouldn't Review Cellphones Anymore [Consumer Reports]
Gizmodo —
... part of a phone. Hardware is commoditized—read the spec sheet for any current smartphone, they've all got just about the same crap inside. It's all about software now, and it's going to go further in that direction. Why do you think everyone's pushing their own platform and app store, anyway? My point is that Consumer Reports desperately needs to overhaul the way it reviews phones, before it doesn't just look out of touch and silly, but hopelessly so. [jkOnTheRun, ZDNet]
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Consumer Reports’ Top 5 Smartphones list mentions neither the iPhone 3G nor G1
CrunchGear —
... Say hello to the worst list you’ll read all day. It’s Consumer Reports’ idea of the Top 5 Smartphones, and I think you’ll agree that it misses the mark. There’s the Samsung Blackjack II, the T-Mobile Wing, the Motorola Q9C, the T-Mobile Shadow and the BlackBerry Pearl Flip. I’m not lying when I say that I’ve heard of, at most, like two of those phones, and I do this stuff all day long. ...
Best Smartphone? Not the iPhone For Sure!
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Quick, name at least two smartphones that you think must be part of any top five list?
Apple iPhone. T-Mobile HTC G1. Ding! Wrong Answer!
Consumer Reports has surprisingly picked Samsung Blackjack II and T-Mobile Wing as its top two smartphones, says ZDNET.
Others on the list that comes out in the January issue of the magazine include Motorola Q9c, T-Mobile Shadow and BlackBerry Pearl Flip.
We would trust Consumer Reports all the way to buy our next washer, dryer or microwave. But has the magazine missed the mark when ...
BlackJack II tops Consumer Reports Rankings
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... ZDNet is reporting that the number 5 spot is actually held by the BlackBerry Pearl Flip, but I find that hard to believe considering the poor uptake. It’s also a little weird to see the Treo beating out the iPhone, so take it all with a grain of salt. Criteria for scoring included voice quality, talk time, ease of use, features like GPS navigation, camera and stereo Bluetooth. Consumer Reports has been doing this for awhile, so it’s safe to say they have a polished rubrick - what do you think, is that a fair top ten list? Keep in mind that the Samsung Omnia, ...
Samsung BlackJack II tops Consumer Reports' list of best smartphones
Engadget —
... Sometimes it's the unsung workhorses that deserve the lion's share of the praise, and that might just be the case with the aging Samsung BlackJack II -- a phone that you probably wouldn't expect to top Consumer Reports' January 2009 ratings of popular ...
