Are you suffering from smartphone fatigue? (Poll)
A new model every week. New updates all the time. New prepaid carrier options. Stop the insanity!
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There are days when it’s so challenging to be a technology writer, I can only imagine what it’s like to be a technology consumer.
For example, and I’m just ballparking here, there are some 37,000 smartphones you can buy today. Whoops, hang on, just got a press release from HTC; make that 37,001. Oh, and here comes Android 4.3 — wonder when I’ll be able to load that on my S3. Hey, Best Buy took $50 off the iPhone last weekend. Must mean Apple ‘s announcing a new model at next month’s WWDC, right? Certainly we’ll be getting iOS 7 before long. Of course, Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 has the better camera anyway, so Apple better step it up.
Exhausting, right? It can be a full-time job keeping up on all this stuff, though… [Read more]