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    The Lab: As one of the very few Moto fanboys I have to say that the RAZR was a well-made phone with great sound quality and signal strength. Smartphones do mo... more »
    Canoehead: These stats are actually eerily reflective of my family. I use a iPhone 3G as my phone and PMP, and carry a work-issued BBerry 8300. This year I bou... more »
    Gundem: When I see people with LG or Samsung phone i want to sgo to them and punch them right in the face, Damn civilization and its laws. more »
    Aetius: The RAZR was an amazing phone. I miss having a phone which I only charged once every 3-4 days and could actually fit in my pocket, not weigh 50 pounds... more »
    NinjaTaco: As much as I'd love an iPhone, it's not worth $100+/month to me. My wife and I have RAZRs v3xx's and are content to spend a combined ~$45/month for v... more »
    TheSonOfKrypton: Funny. I always wondered WHAT THE FUCK Apple was thinking releasing the iPhone 3GS yet continuing to let the (now mediocre performing) iPhone 3G live... more »
    PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Is the iPhone 4.0% the new model? more »
    OCEntertainment: Thanks, John. I had just gotten my mind off of the Nexus One for a few minutes and now you've gone and brought it right back up again. Still, I'm sor... more »
    crikerat: INteresting that the 3G is listed as the top while RIM holds multiple listings as does LG. I would have an easier time with this chart if it was the ... more »
    PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: These are the top 10 mobile website though right? There are also mobile browsers that can handle regular websites which I'm sure aren't reflected here... more »
    _BrianD_: i loved my razr v3xx. it was the best phone i have ever had. why? because it played a ringtone for each different person when they sent me an SMS. iPh... more »
    Alfisted: You can get it on AirTran but no amount of Internet content will make up for several hours of sitting on one of their patented cushionless seats. more »
    philibuster: This just in: Most men are closeted lesbians based on their netflix viewing preferences. more »
    ian.nai: Damn...so I'll own up to a little transgression. I totally expected this to be a 'how to crack into it for free'. After the security butt-reaming an... more »
    archercc: Im actually on the Gogo on a Delta flight right now and its pretty snappy. I think the numbers are off though, its a 5 hour flight but it was suppose... more »
    dimsum4u: Thanks for the breakdown! I'm flying a lot in the next few months with CES, NRF and a bunch of other trade shows/deployments so this is good to know w... more »
    Dacker: I don't know if Dan's reporting is precise, but he wrote, "...alleges that her identity could be divined...". That's could, as in, there is a potenti... more »
    smartboydan is banned from Deadspin :(: I'm pretty sure that I recall from a citizenship class that there is no ennumerated right to privacy. But it has been about 6 years since I took that... more »
    DonLuc: This is why we can't have nice things, stupid lady. I'd say they did her a damn favor. She just went from boring housewife to lesbian porn watching ... more »
    Kaiser-Machead: If she wins this will open the floodgates for lawsuits from single, childless men who watched the Hillary Duff movie. more »
  • #data

    iPhone, Meet Razr: The Ten Most Popular Phones in the Country

    I have to admit I was surprised at the iPhone and BlackBerry 8300 series did so well here—the two most popular handsets in the country, going into 2010, are full-fledged smartphones. Also surprising: people still buy Razrs. Razrs! More »
  • #chart

    The Complete Inflight Wi-Fi Cheat Sheet

    Are planes your last refuge from this horrible, awful internet? Or are they terrifying airborne isolation chambers, which pose a dire threat to your carefully regimented Tweeting schedule? Either way, don't buy a ticket without consulting this chart. [Jaunted]
  • #lawsuits

    In-the-Closet Lesbian Sues Netflix for Releasing Her Movie Preferences

    A mother of two, who also happens to be gay (and not broadcasting it), is anonymously suing Netflix for releasing her movie preferences in that contest they held awhile back. Basically, she's Borking them. More »
  • #data

    Microsoft and Palm Treading Water While Other Mobile Platforms Grow

    It's a great time to be in the smartphone business, unless you're Microsoft or Palm. According to the latest data, they're hardly doing any business at all. More »
  • #data

    Chrome Beats Safari

    With the release of Chrome beta for Linux and Mac, the inevitable happened: Chrome became the number 3 browser, narrowly sliding past Safari with a 4.4 percent marketshare to Safari's 4.37 percent. The Google-Apple war is getting real, people. [ComputerWorld]
  • #data

    The Android Market Is Getting Ready to Explode

    With total apps surpassing 20,000 this month, the gap in size—and consequently, quality—between the Android Market and the iPhone App Store is finally starting to close. More »
  • #data

    How 3.6 Zettabytes of Data Get Consumed

    You probably already saw that the average American tears through 34GB of data per person per day. Here's how the media has evolved these last few decades (sorry print), and below a way to compare your consumption with Joe Average. More »
  • #att

    AT&T CEO Admits AT&T Sucks. Solution: Charge More Money.

    If an iPhone app designed solely to report crappy coverage doesn't say it loudly enough, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega admitted today that AT&T sucks in NY and SF, saying they're "performing at levels below our standards." More »
  • #data

    How Huge Is the Internet on an Average Day?

    The internet is, like, big. So's this infographic showing just how crazy huge it is, and what 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images, 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on an average day really means. It hurts. More »
  • #memory

    Five Possible Futures of Computer Memory

    New Scientist has a feature on five conceptual successors to flash memory. These are all technologies currently under development that could fit terabytes of information on a single tiny chip—and some of them aren't too far off. More »
  • #data

    Our Century of Fallout: Every Nuclear Detonation, Mapped

    Everyone's got a notion of how the last century went, in terms of nuclear explosions. There was Hiroshima, then Nagasaki. There were some nuclear tests out in the desert, and the ocean. But would you believe there've been over 2000? More »
  • #data

    Get 'Em While They're Young

    The iPod touch is growing faster than the iPhone now—making up 40 percent of 58 million iPhone OS devices—and what that means, says Flurry analytics, is that it's building the "next generation" of iPhone users. Oh boy. [AppleInsider]
  • #questionoftheday

    Are You Comfortable With Google's Level of Control Over Your Data?

    Chrome OS, Android, Navigation, Voice and DNS...these are just some of the ways Google has increased their control over our digital lives in recent months. Are you comfortable with the increasing level of control Google has over your data? More »
  • #charts

    The Incredible Shrinking Dell

    Not too long ago, Dell was one of the fastest growing companies in the world. Now, it's the only major PC manufacturer actually getting smaller. More »
  • #infographic

    Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies

    This infographic makes me so glad that we came up with storage methods other than floppy disks. Imagine replacing your 2TB hard drive with 1,422,222 floppies. No thank you. Update: More »
  • #data

    Girls Play With Wiis

    80 percent of female primary console players—the main person who plays the console—do their gaming on a Wii. just 11 percent use an Xbox 360 and 9 percent play a PS3. Does that say more about girls, the Wii or Xbox 360 and PS3? [Kotaku]
  • #data

    TiVo Is Slowly Dying

    It's always strange when a company that's become synonymous with its market—like Kleenex to tissues, or Xerox to copiers—starts fading. And that's exactly what's happening to TiVo, whose subscriber level has dropped to where it was in 2004. More »
  • #smartphones

    iPhone and Android Are Taking Over the (Mobile) Internet

    So, what does it take to snatch a combined 75% of US mobile internet traffic? Two operating systems, a handful of phones, and one great browser core.
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  • #att

    AT&T Lets You Pay-As-You-Go For Notebook DataConnect Coverage

    Instead of signing up for a monthly plan on a notebook data card, AT&T now lets you pay for chunks of data beforehand. Unfortunately, it's really expensive. More »
  • #data

    Wikipedia's Brain Drain

    The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even as traffic at the world's fifth most-popular website keeps growing. [WSJ]