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To all the people who say Android had it in 2012: Granted, I use an Android phone (used to the interface, and iPhones are expensive), but anyone who thinks iPhones are purely bought on marketing/hype merits (e.g. post #2) and not on any technical merits are kidding themselves.

That's both illegal in several states and arguably suicidal (unless you're riding on a dedicated trail).

Apple 2012 pebble look, which the iPhone 6 is obviously derived from:

Can you post your wiring scheme? Might be something going on with ground loops.

Especially since the Moto G matches most of its specs, other than the camera and construction.

The 64GB microSD is also probably much slower NAND than 64GB internal storage.

The size is a deal breaker for me. 5.5" is Note territory. Otherwise, seems great - the Samsung-style button layout is annoying, but can be disabled for software buttons.

I'd agree with the Ars review - it's a decent incremental upgrade, but Samsung never put much effort into their biggest weakness (design).

I know exactly what they're for, but there are people whose actual views approach those extremes in terms of Android evangelism. As much as you're saying they're uncommon/rare, my point is that most Apple users aren't "Apple Crazies" either, just like most Android users aren't removable...

Ugh, posted the wrong link. http://www.reddit.com/r/androidcirclejerk

To be fair, most people who use iPhones are not Apple crazies, exactly paralleling how you said most Android users are not like these people.

Never mind that Apple A7 beats Snapdragon 800 in most benchmarks, never mind that respected sites like Anandtech with staff who have actual computer engineering degrees supports the idea of two more powerful cores over moar coars, never mind the fact that you're making a completely non sequitur...

I've had 100% of these fail. I bought about 5 of them and all cables stopped charging within 4 months. It's something with the connector. Now I use these and they seem to be holding up.

There's also some iPhone 5 DNA in there with the circular buttons and a bit of the chamfer.

If you can stretch it, the Moto G at $180 is an excellent phone. There's also many used options available at that price range. You can probably get the Galaxy SII at that price, which has a fairly decent camera.

I am here with you... Seriously though, considering the number of times I check my phone daily a lock would be a huge hassle. Most lock methods are also easily circumvented.

If I needed a smaller phone I would love an iPhone running Android. iPhones have excellent cameras, decent screen calibration, and the industrial design is still top notch. I'm put off by iOS though.

If used is an option and you don't need much power, a used Thinkpad X301 is worth looking at.

Dell uses a 3-pin ID chip in the charger to determine wattage (having taken several of them apart). That could have burned out.

Making a judgment on an entire OS on an ancient, low-end junk phone is not a fair assessment. Android 4.0+ on a flagship is quite nice.

Public transport was the norm until the 50s before the whole automobile/highway craze developed and car culture was established in the US. With the sheer expense of re-expanding transit systems these days and lack of investment in public transport (after tearing down all those transit networks...

1. Post any Apple news on [H] 2. Irrational Apple bashing occurs. 3. People are butthurt and start arguing. 4. More page clicks. 5. ??? 6. Profit.

In general, this. For laptops, never buy on spec's alone - an i5 vs an i3 or 8GB vs 6GB RAM won't make a difference in 95% of use cases, but that mushy keyboard, that low-resolution screen, or that creaky plastic case that's falling apart definitely will. While I'm a PC guy that leans towards...

This. As a user of a Dell Latitude, I've always found enterprise laptops to have substantially better build quality than consumer-end ones. The keyboards on them tend to be better to. The caveat though is that most I've run into have terrible screens.

$100 is chump change compared to the $2000+ you'll be spending over 2 years on Verizon's service, so get the more modern phone.

That sounds like a hardware issue. Do you have warranty on the phones you bought? I would contact AT&T or HTC and try to get them replaced. That's the tradeoff for front-facing speakers and hardware buttons. They take up space in the front, which the S4 and G2 don't have to deal with.

Aren't there restrictions that Taiwan has in place that prevents PRC majority ownership?

Unless you're shooting the mid-day sky with a wide-open aperture you'll almost never be shooting at 1/16,000. Most of the time you'll be at 1/500 or less.

Where are you getting the chargers? Some generic chargers are fairly shoddily built and even dangerous: http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-why-you.html

They did add fake stitches to the back of the Note 3,

You can RIT dye the keys on the Model M's if you want durable coloring that also lets the lettering show through.

MIT is by far the smallest school in the top 10, so they also have by far the highest per-capita torrent usage, while the other schools in the top 10 are fairly large (20K+ students). The rankings don't seem to distinguish between different sized schools.

So Microsoft pays less than half the price Google did for Motorola for a company that both produces better hardware and has a significantly stronger patent portfolio. Good job, Google.

Have you tried a different cable? I've had several micro-USB cables go flaky on me in the past.

The CPU and GPU are also more powerful (underclocked Snapdragon 600 on the 2nd-gen, vs Tegra 3 on the 1st-gen), the 2nd-gen is thinner, and the screen is better calibrated and has better contrast on the 2nd-gen.

The One is coming out August 22nd on Verizon.

Verizon's got an HTC One signup page now: http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/devices/htc-one.html

You're not going to find a high-wattage linear 12V power supply. Period. It would need an absolutely gigantic transformer.

You can probably find an HTC Sensation for pretty close to $100.

Gaming.