"What app needs that much power?"

I'll be curious to see how much stock Best Buy was actually given and how long they'll actually last.

I'm guessing at some point they should acknowledge HP stands for Help. Please.

Yep, I've heard similar things, and actually experienced it a bit myself, albeit during the iOS 5 betas. I found that at times, if I installed the new iOS version, then restored from a backup, I would at times get terrible battery life.

Ahh, nicely done sir.

That. Is. Crazy! For most things, I'd just psych myself up and then get in it. But I can't imagine sitting under that thing, watch it run, then be like—"hey, sure, strap me in." After I got done changing my shorts, I'd walk out of that room, never to return. Damn those were some brave guys.

I'd say that battery optimization is still pretty high up on the list for Apple (not that it isn't for other manufacturers as well). They still have the Energy Diagnostics (Logging) feature under Settings > Developer in iOS, so they're clearly still analyzing data and at least looking at it.

Yeah I was curious about iMessage too. In earlier betas, I had to keep it turned off as it caused a noticeable drain when it was one (and then subsequently turned off). I have it on now, and I get through an entire day pretty easily on a charge, but it is a noticeable difference from my iPhone 4 on drain rates.

You had me at That's So Raven.

Agreed, I can't imagine how horrifying it would be to look up while under a local anesthetic and see this thing working on you. Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it.

Ahhh the fun you could have with that at a buddies house. His phone is lying around, while you: "Siri, where's the closest strip club?" His wife walks in the room, picks up the phone. "Kevin, get in here!!"

Man I love this show. Between this and Modern Family, two of my favorites. I still love the 30 Rock episode where Liz tries to get Jenna to change the name of her website "www.jennas-side.com". Real parody site: [www.nbc.com]

I guess it would have been a nice change of pace for the docs in the clinic who are used to working on a bunch of guys johnsons all day. Ohhh lookey, a severed arm! Back off Mike the Intern, this one's mine!

I think the concept is pretty neat. If anything the ability to see really how fast online word-of-mouth spreads. Get this into an API that online marketers can use to track user behavior and WOM marketing and they are going to go batshit crazy for it!

This is a guest written article, not written by Gizmodo itself (check the author)—not a "cut and paste". You are correct that on that site (androidpolice.com) they have pointed out some flaws. But if you look at even their criticism, it was more about the chart left two phones out (that are well updated), not that the…

"How, then, can 12 have run a current version, even if briefly?"

I was just curious as when you log in (the log in box appears), the page is still in HTTP, not HTTPS. Sounds like (hopefully) they are doing a secure (HTTPS) POST and not in HTTP.

Thanks for the info. It seems surprising that they wouldn't include more stock memory though. Considering their app store offerings will continue to grow, you'll want to store more music and pics on there, etc., it could start running out fast. That and the problems upgrading with the "certified" miniSD cards, seems…

I'm trying to figure this out too (for Gawker sites). So when I log in to Gizmodo, my credentials are sent in clear text over HTTP, not HTTPS?

Definitely a valid point, but I wasn't really comparing it to iPhone or Android. I was just curious how the one article references the other, yet the referenced article also seems to claim a bit of "meh" itself.