I would likely agree if it wasn't possible to get decent contract phones with iOS and Android for $100. A 16GB 4S or RAZR M runs $100 both of which stack up nicely in a store setting to the Lumia. No matter where they priced it there is competition so ultimately they have to rest on phone buyers preferring the UI or…

This makes no sense. If you view each smartphone OS as essentially the same, why spend the money and switch if your new phone is a few months old? I get switching off a two year old phone, a broken one or at the end of a contract but why before?

I don't know what the validity of the study are but this is a tech related article and the source has nothing to do with Gizmodo. I know some of their opinion pieces are heavily biased but this is an article parroting potential news not Giz trying to drop a load on RIM.

We use a concierge physician which costs about $100 per month extra. Worth every penny as there are no wait times, they book everything including specialist appointments, they do the followup with any specialists, the doctor responds to direct emails day/night and makes house calls. Usually includes a thorough annual…

I can agree with that last paragraph but fortunately 12 months in tablet probably brings a lot better offerings. Course I still want a larger tablet for my aging eyes.

This is a very poor attitude about work and life in general. There are billions of people in the world who would love to have that job and would treat it respectfully. Entitlement thinking and laziness is digging a hole for this country that will be difficult to overcome.

Keep in mind $100k for some people is like $100 for us normal people. I say buy it if you like it... helps the economy!

Shooting machine guns at a predator drone in hopes of downing it would be difficult I would think. These days machine guns on a fighter jet are like a person's appendix.

For a tech blog to completely miss how development works is pretty stunning. All these projects will yield or have yielded residual benefits for Google. It is likely that nobody can really say what has and has not been a flop as far as time and money costs.

If it works well, it really isn't that bad of a price. 20 compressed air cans cost around $80 so this should outlast them. While I like some of the electric pumps on the market most are wired which is fine for a work bench but makes them a pain to use around an office building.

Dorcy Dive lights are always my first choice. Cheap, extremely durable, uses standard AAA batteries, last a long time, dove them to 150' underwater and gone on dozens of dives without a leak. Great bang for buck light.

Free as in preventing your carrier from dictating which sites you can visit not free as in cost. If Romney had won and continued on with deregulation, Comcast probably would in short order be able to block any number of sites its users visit including its competitors.

I think it is a great idea. Sort of like an offline Paypal that bridges us to fully electronic NFC payments.

You will be able to switch which card a payment goes to from the wallet app. I would bet at some point we will even be able to set defaults such as gas always goes on this card, groceries here, etc.

Its a tech blog talking about software. You would have a point if the pulled in a negative voting story with no basis in tech.

Giz didn't accuse the GOP of anything wrong, they just openly pondered why a software patch that nobody can vet went in just before an election. The fishy smell isn't from Gizmodo it can only be implied by the reader.

I understand your comment but compared to most high end phones this one is REALLY heavy. It is heavier than many of the first quality smart phones on the market that had full size keyboards. Sure it may make it feel like a "manly" phone but who wants to carry something significantly heavier around that when they don't…

I agree with many of the replies here, but I think online voting has a real chance to change that system. It will be a long time if it ever comes barring some major event.

You can't have it both ways. If police officers that are trained to use guns properly make mistakes at a higher rate than success, then the average home owner who has little training is going to make even more.