Find The Best Smartphone: bias or without?

How to choose the best smartphone? By instinct? By talking to friends and family? By asking the salesman? By reading reviews on the internet? Yes, I did all that, but I still haven't made the decision yet. Until few days ago I stumble (is this an outdated term? :P ), I saw this website that do all the comparisons for us.

FindTheBest.com will do the data-driven comparisons for business and finance services, child care to adoption agencies, bicycles to guns, air tickets to hostels, and various consumers electronics including smartphones. So I give a try on the smartphone department.

I am looking for a mid-range smartphone. Probably around RM 1000 to RM 1500 (~US$313 to US$469). Has to be an Android (iPhone is out the range because the pricing). And ICS upgradable, the best is ICS out of the box. So I nailed down to a few, too bad the website don't have Samsung Galaxy S Advance, could because it is not sold at US. Anyway, Samsung Galaxy S 2 vs a few within the price range that I mentioned just now. And I get this:

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Looks like Samsung Galaxy S 2 has the highest score even though HTC One V and all 3 Sony Xperia are one year newer than Samsung Galaxy S 2.

One thing I noticed while using FindTheBest.com is it said that they are unbiased, data-driven comparisons, however the data are based on reviews from the internet, so it might not always as reliable as we thought. A lot of websites nowadays are being paid by the manufacturers to promote their products. Example iPhone 4 S is 1 point better than Samsung Galaxy S 2 even though so many aspect are worse than Samsung Galaxy S 2.

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HTC One series are in bad score. I wonder why Samsung Galaxy S 3 ended up at lower score.

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At the end of the day, it is still back to us to make up own decisions. Reviews and advices are still for reference only. Good luck to me for finding my next smartphone. :)

Here is the Find The Best smartphone department:
http://smartphones.findthebest.com

And this is the Find The Best main page:
http://www.findthebest.com

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Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X

I wonder what is Mr Miniman doing in pocketnow.com? Where is he? Almost all the phone review and phone comparison are worked by his associates nowadays and boy, not to criticize their accent, but I can't help to notice it whenever I watch the video from pocketnow.com. Please listen to BBC radio more often and try to reduce your accept, pretty please? :P

Anyway, pocketnow has put up head-to-head comparison video of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X (warning: accent is heavy :P):

To save some of your time (even though I tag this as waste time post :P), here is a jump list [my comment in the square bracket]:
0:53 - the start screen of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X [HTC One X with fast boot, so HTC One X is the winner here]
1:30 - spec comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X [go to gsmarena for better comparison]
3:25 - comparison of opening day-to-day apps on Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X [boring]
5:10 - running benchmarking apps for Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X [these are for geeks only]
8:07 - browser comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X [he forgot to scroll up and down during loading! that's how we use the phone]
11:00 - grand theft auto III comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X [skip skip skip]
13:45 - screen comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X [I like color on Samsung Galaxy S 3 better, but it is up to personal preference]
16:39 - video camera quality comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs HTC One X [Samsung Galaxy S 3 color is better!]

In summary, it is up to personal preference to pick which one the winner. HTC supporters sure will pick HTC One X and Samsung hardcore will pick Samsung Galaxy S 3. For me, I will go to mid-range phone because that is where I think the money worth for. :P


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How to Root the HTC One X

Members of XDA always ahead others on unlocking Android and WP devices. This time is HTC One X. shenye (the famous XDA developer) show the step-by-step on how to root the HTC One X. This video also include the (dull) unboxing of the phone. Jump tp time 4:40 if you just to see the unlocking section.



Important Links:

HTC One X Development Forum
ClockworkMod Recovery
SuperSU Package

I have to tag this as waste time post since it is waste of time for those that don't own HTC One X phone. heheh.


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