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Electronista reports, “The iPhone 4’s disputed antenna has given Android a virtual sweep of the top phone rankings at Consumer Reports, the magazine’s latest ratings showed today.”
That’s good news. Can’t wait for gingerbread.
CR has always been a joke when it comes to this kind of gear.
During the great video game wars of the early ‘80s, did they pick Atari 2600? No. Mattel Intellivision? No. How about the new ColecoVision. No.
Consumer Reports gave its top rating to the Bally Astrocade, a device that was doomed to fail less than a year later.
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Consumer Reports seems to be maintaining their stance on iPhones clearly to get web hits.
I have the Vibrant which is very similar to the Captivate it is a very good phone. I like the Captivate hardware better.
If only Sprint had been smart when iPhone was offered to them. I’d be using one now lol
Yes, we forget HTC phone screens shorting and not accepting input, separating from the phone due to poor manufacturing, and a number of other problems with various Android phones, and say the iPhone loses because of ONE problem that Android phones have too.
Nah, CR isn’t biased.
Consumer Reports also picked NY city water as superior to all brands of bottled water, merely as a consequence of having the objective taste testers all living in NYC. It isn’t a consumer-oriented magazine; by the time its recommendations are published, the models tested are not generally available; they do a lousy job of rating autos; and the very concept of such a magazine is that one published source has the competence and expertise to rate everything they wind up rating. It’s BS on its face.
I no longer need to give a d@mn what Consumer Reports thinks.
They have no standing whatsoever.
This would likewise be true, were it reversed (e.g. if they had given the iPhone4 the win and blocked Android phones because of something that affected a tiny percentage of Android users).
Wife has iPhone 4, very happy with it. Both devices are very capable. I'd say go fool with them in a store. Get which ever one suits your style. Don't believe us tech-geeks that "feature X is a must have!" :-)
I don’t usually use Consumer Reports to make a choice on what to buy for anything.
I still think that folks oughta buy what they like. I do, and am very happy.
I still have my trusty iPhone 4. Still without a case and looking great, not a scratch on it.
Buy what you prefer and it’s okay with me. :)
Consumer Reports... isn’t that the organization that lost the trust of most thinking people when it was found that they had fudged test results on the Suzuki Samuri, intentionally underinflating tires and/or other tricks to cause their reported rollover problems?
And that isn’t the first time they have been caught fudging numbers/results.
My step-father asked me a few months ago about the iPhone 4... he was trying to decide between the Samsung Captivate and the iPhone. He opted for the Captivate because of promised easier syncing of data...
He returned it two days later - reception issues.
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