Although the iPhone 5 has received favorable reviews from Consumer Reports, several other models, from HTC, LG, and now Samsung, rate slightly better. While CR is entitled to its conclusions, I wonder if the surfeit of sometimes useless features on the Galaxy S4 has overwhelmed the magazine’s testers and granted the product a higher rating […]

One unfortunate way to compare tech gear is the spec list. The longer, the better. This is what appears to drive Consumer Reports magazine in giving one product a higher rating than another. But that doesn’t mean the feature works as advertised or, for that matter, serves a legitimate need. Now Samsung’s Galaxy S4 was […]

So if you can believe some of the media chatter in recent months, the iPhone 5 was one huge failure, and therefore Apple is no longer the company to beat in the tech universe. Samsung is emerging victorious, except for the fact that, in the critical December quarter in 2012, the iPhone 5 beat the […]

If you believe T-Mobile’s hype machine, they are doing away with the traditional wireless carrier contract. Instead of being saddled with a two-year contract and early termination fees if you quit early, the handset will be unbundled from your cellular plan. So you will get a lower price, sort of. Now it’s true that T-Mobile […]