CNET Top 5: Best 4G Smartphones

The best 4G smartphones. iPhone fans need not apply.

[kevmack]

WOW HaHa watching this in 2017 Only because of Coooolly

[NunViD]

Razr Maxx was my first phone. Loved that thing. It would go for 2 and sometimes 3 days. Too bad ice cream sandwich killed that amazing battery life. My mom dropped it onto the parking lot the day I got it on it's screen and slid. Just a chip on the corner and not even a scratch nvm crack. I miss Motorola's Kevlar backs. Made it stand out from all the others.

[Haiderable]

I used to watch Brian's top 5 videos in 2011-12, such great memories

[ShallBePurified]

You probably have never seen a speed test on a Lumia 900. It's the fastest phone that uses a single core. Now with all dual core and quad core coming out, they may be slightly faster, but the Lumia 900 is literally equal in speed or just barely noticeably slower on a single core. Imagine how fast the Lumia 920 would be running a dual core.

[AllTechIncluded]

I would put galaxy nexus on top, htc rezound second and skyrocket third, and when the htc one x comes out it'll be topping the list :D

[ShallBePurified]

Look at the time I posted my comment. Do you really think I made that comment to account for 3 months into the future?

[YQ]

droid razr definitely the best phone. I have galaxy s2 and its too slippery to hold comfortably. They need to fix the plastic because, s3 and s4 are the same shit. I have dropped my galaxy so many times its not funny. Screen cracked and had to fix it myself. Droid razr on the other hand its not as good as far as performance, but its much better built device with real metal, and its not slippery. Screen on the galaxy has unnatural colors, but make it beautiful.

[newdavidof]

you do know YouTube only allows you 500 characters, want me to write an essay with those characters. Just google the uses of NFC and you will see what it can do already and what it will be able to do in the near future. I am not hear to educate people. Currently NFC in phones does three main things, its a wallet, shares files and reads NFC stickers. Which are three more features iPhone cant unless you download special apps which have limited use.

[Felix]

HTC Rezound is best. You cant say a phone is better because of an OS (Nexus). Motorola has terrible software. For instance, you have to download an app for all the different email accounts you have (gmail, yahoo, exchange) making it especially bad for business. The Samsung phone has NFC with still no use and on a second rate network, plus the hardware is still not up to par with HTC Rezound.

[ShallBePurified]

That still doesn't make sense. I was talking about at that time. The Lumia 900 is the fastest at that time.

[newdavidof]

Not in europe where i am from and the fact that you think its only used for payments showd how little you understand what the nfc chip can actually do. One example sharing files with any other phone just by touching them, even wp8 has come this far so only apple lacks behind.

[jspekeg]

I did look at the date, that's why I included the info "JB 4.1.1."
The Galaxy Nexus was released 2 months before the lumia 900. "Currently, " the older G-Nexus is faster then the lumia 900 ;)
Technically, jelly bean 4.1 beta was released 2.5 months ago. Close enough :P

[djhidro]

Well the iphone doesn't touch 32 mbps which I'm pulling off of lte towers. The next iphone will be lte and then you can stop compensating because other manufacturers aren't slowing the pace of moblie tech with insane lawsuits that try to squash any smart phone competition.

[djhidro]

Hspa isn't technically 4g it's evdo rev b which is a 3g technology. At&t users can say they have 4g because there is now an icon on the screen but Hspa is 3x as fast as evdo rev a not ten times fast like true 4g networks run. Verizon is killing it with their lte deployment.

[mak]

Sounds like you've enevr used moto's universal inbox app. You can access all of those and more from it. Exchange in particular is accessible through the Corporate Sync option.
Now you CAN download an app for that, some of which are probably better, but you don't need to.

[RomeLights]

he has a lot more car reviews, I have been subscribed to CNET for about 2 years now and he used to release a new car video every week, when there where no videos for a while he would release a whole bunch at a timme. where as these top 5 videos are about every month. (there wasn't one in march)

[Judgement]

I love how fandroids tout NFC like it's the best thing since sliced bread.

It's next to worthless. Hardly any stores have implemented it yet and wireless charging is stupid since you still have to lay it directly atop a charge station and plug it in.

[luevas]

It's a pity that the Maxx is not sold outside the U.S., as far as I know anyway. I got the regular Razr back in December and I'm pretty satisfied with it but I can't say that I wouldn't trade off a litle bit of thickness for twice the battery life.

[thehouserocker]

I swear Brian Cooley could do a top 5 on ice cube trays and still make it interesting and informative!

[Judgement]

And everything you listed (which is hardly anything) proves you don't know much about it either and also shows how useless it is.
A different means of sending files does not make it unique. Nor does it make it useful.