But I see we are back to Apple huh. It is what it is.

What seems to happen is that some amateur “expert” runs a particular category. It’s fine if it’s something generic and uncontroversial such as bath towels or porches. But if it’s a complicated category, this “expert” will write wrong reviews for years.

I don’t read Consumer Reports, but I remember reading Mac blogs, at a time when the Macs were not that bad and trading the raw performance crown with PCs, and every year they’d complain about how Consumer Reports disses Macs.

I’ve also heard that their car reviews are a bit off.

BlackJackII has tons of battery life and it’s a reliable voice communications device. That’s why I use it.

How did this become we hate you Apple post is beyond me. Out of all the RIM phones to pick you mean to tell me that the Pearl Flip is the best come on now and the Motorola Q9c? Which one of these top 5 phones does your company use Brodei?

THe solution: DO NOT connect your iPhone directly to your MacBook. Connect it to a USB HUB, then connect the hub to your MacBook. I tested this on a MacBook and MacBook Pro on 2 iPhones: both are jailbroken successfully.

And just to be clear, I’ve never used any of these phones, I have a LG Dare on VZW. However, it has been reported in many places that the call quality and ability to keep calls, you know, the primary reasons you bring these things around for, is very poor on the iPhone, and is an experience which is very variable with the sometimes shoddy AT&T network. CR has just looked beyond the hype realizing there is more to life than Apple.

consumers just never seemed to understand that besides their primary interests email/music/movies & a few other notables (which they will gladly list hoping to get respect) that the rest of us use our machines for serious purposes(our entire livelihood). in that segment the Apple brand just flat out doesnt exist & probably never will.

Autobehr, if that was true then the iphone/G1 wouldnt be on the list at all .. but they are just at the bottom.

and for all you guys claiming “inside sources” or “i used to work in the industry” get real. youre just iphone owners that are butthurt because CR hasnt hopped on the mainstream market driven ad-sponsored revenue monster that is the Apple machine. it’s actually nice to see a non-bias opinion with no real special interests (like most of the other “review” sites). they see the iphone for what it is, a phone with solid potential but a very immature OS that cant compete with much more feature rich productivity based OS’s.

My list would be:
T-Mobile G1
iPhone 3G
BB Bold
HTC Touch Pro
Nokia e71

I should write for CR…

The Apple iPhone and T-Mobile G1 ARE NOT SMART PHONES, ok ok, maybe the G1 is on the rite track. But by definition they are FEATURE phones. Where in they are all about the features, be it the look of the device, jiggly icons, lack of picture mail (come on iPhone, not so smart).
Now I will give credit to both phones for making a iconic place in history, but you ask most of the people what the iPhone and the G1 can do and they will tell you that they can touch it and turn it and there is a monkey in a ball on it, and for the G1 they can slide it and look at maps. Now most SMARTphones are not sexy, they serve a purpose, getting corp email, calender syncing and the such. I KNOW the iPhone and G1 can do that, in a “its about time/round about way” but that’s NOT why they are selling, and that’s not what this article is about.