WiMo News is continuing its round-up of distilling the review sources for the year of 2012. Our ginormous database is crunching out numbers with the help of human formulas that reveals some trends and surprises. So far Consumer Reports gave higher ranking to LG and Motorola, there were few if any keyboarded winners and sales figures from Canaccord Genuity do not reflect the reviews. Today we look at Digital Trends that really likes Windows Phones.
Our data includes all the smartphones throughout the year. We prorated their figures to be in similar context as other technical reviews. These figures are entered into the master file and will be incorporated into final results.
Digital Trends passed over the recently released Sony Xperia TL, other choices were similar to other tech media outlets. Like last year, DT rated Windows Phones highly with the HTC 8X one of its best rated devices. Smartphone makers that achieved the top scores were HTC with highest scores followed by Samsung, Motorola, Apple, LG and Nokia.
It would seem that since Google bought Motorola that promised software updates to Android 4.04 Ice Cream Sandwich would be more than possible. However, Motorola is creating an uproar with customers and also contributing to global warming by denying owners an update that has been promised for months.
has plummeted to as low as $75.99 on Amazon.com for a device that previously had a list price of $499 by itself.
