Best Smartphone? Not the iPhone For Sure!

Quick, name at least two smartphones that you think must be part of any top five list?

Apple iPhone. T-Mobile HTC G1. Ding! Wrong Answer!

Consumer Reports has surprisingly picked Samsung Blackjack II and T-Mobile Wing as its top two smartphones, says ZDNET.

Others on the list that comes out in the January issue of the magazine include Motorola Q9c, T-Mobile Shadow and BlackBerry Pearl Flip.

We would trust Consumer Reports all the way to buy our next washer, dryer or microwave. But has the magazine missed the mark when it comes to gadget reviews? At least one other blogger has said this in the past.

"Its (Consumer Reports) gadget reviews are often ambivalent and unsatisfying, like an elderly grandmother trying to explain why she prefers sherry to port. To me, a religious devotee of its general coverage, this presents something of a mystery," says Rob Beschizza in a recent BoingBoing post.

It also compels us to ask if the iPhone and G1 are not smartphones, how exactly do you define a 'smartphone?'