You can bet that, when reviewing smartphones, Consumer Reports magazine appears to have a blind spot towards Samsung; maybe a few blind spots. How so? Well, I’ll get to that shortly. Now on the surface, CR ought to be the perfect review source. Unlike most other publications, online or print, it actually buys tested products […]

I don’t know why I have to repeat the obvious, but far too many tech commentators just don’t have a clue. So here we go again. As most of you know, the iPhone X will not ship until November 3rd. Orders will be taken beginning on the previous week. What’s more, there have been rampant […]

This is a curious situation. Time after time, Apple is attacked for being late to add a feature to one of its products. Over that time, feature after feature will be listed as something Apple must have to avoid total ruin. Or something. Take the arrival of LTE service from a growing number of wireless […]

In the run-up ahead of Apple’s iPhone media event, news emerged that Touch ID wasn’t part of the picture on the iPhone X. Apple allegedly had problems outfitting the system to work beneath an edge-to-edge OLED display and all that, so they brought out their trump card — Face ID. The impression that story conveys […]