Tag: CONSUMERREPORTS

Having friends who subscribe to AT&T is a lot like having friends who date awful people. After each dropped call, missed text or garbled conversation, you can reason with them, or berate them, but they just won't give. ("Man, you just don't know AT&T like I do. When it's great, it's great! Have you seen my iPhone?!") Hopefully, reading this Consumer Reports bashing will have the effect of ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Voyager 1 spacecraft has already traveled an astounding 14 billion miles since its 1977 launch, and the interstellar wanderer is now headed to the Kuiper Belt at the "'edge' of our solar system," more than 13 billion miles from home. [From: Popular Science] eBay has faced exorbitant lawsuits in the past, but XPRT Venture is ...

Apple may still refuse to admit that its iPhone 4 is plagued with design flaws, but Consumer Reports certainly won't. In a recent blog post, the company's testers confirmed that the signal problems many have noticed with the new iPhone are, indeed, the result of faulty design. After testing different phones in a so-called "radio frequency isolation chamber," engineers noticed that when they ...

As much as we love new technology here at Switched, we also sort of hate it. No matter how cool, innovative, or flat out mind-blowing a new device may be, it's equally frustrating when our gadgets, for whatever reason, fail us. But what are the most common issues people have with technology? According to a recent report, they're pretty basic. Consumer Reports recently surveyed over 13,000 of ...

This probably won't come as too much of a shock to many of you (especially regular Switched readers), but according to a recent survey from Consumer Reports, 52-percent of adults post potentially risky information about themselves on social networks. The survey revealed that 42-percent posted their full birth date to Facebook and 51-percent post their e-mail address. Oddly these ...

Share Microsoft has been forced by the moral authority of Consumer Reports to censor an ad for its new line of Kin social-networking phones. The ad for Microsoft's Kin features a house party concert invaded by attractive hipsters who play with bubble bath foam, wear animal masks and spend more time photographing and talking about their experiences than actually experiencing anything. The ad ...

Well, it's no surprise to us here at Switched that, according to the annual Consumer Reports survey of readers, AT&T is at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to customer satisfaction. The survey (subscription required) covered 50,000 readers in 26 cities and AT&T ranked dead-last in 19 of the 26 markets. While AT&T's issues with dropped calls, spotty coverage, and achingly slow ...

Sometimes it's the unsung workhorses that deserve the lion's share of the praise, and that might just be the case with the aging Samsung BlackJack II -- a phone that you probably wouldn't expect to top Consumer Reports' January 2009 ratings of popular smartphones. Sure, it may not be the shiniest device on the market these days, but you've got to admit it's just about as functional as you'd ever ...