He also has this beauty in there:
"Long-time readers know I?ve become somewhat obsessed about smart phone camera quality. I?ve been taking photos with this thing since Monday and the picture quality is superb, easily the best of any smart phone I?ve ever owned."
followed by:
"An impromptu camera test pitting the 8X against an iPhone 5 on Tuesday was inconclusive: The shots were nearly identical, which I take as a good sign. But I?ll be doing a more detailed comparison of the cameras in the 8X, the iPhone 5 and the Lumia 920. ".
Paul is tough, but fair. I've never seen him bash anything unfairly (though I am open to being proven incorrect).
Which part of that seems fair to you? He brags about it being the best phone ever and in the next sentence he claims he can't prove it.
I would say he is being pretty unfair to the iPhone there.
Moving on though.... He has this gem also:
"Since hardware design was the iPhone?s biggest advantage over previous Windows Phone handsets, this is a huge accomplishment."
Really? This is where you should have stopped reading. The looks of the WPs wasn't what was holding them back, it was everything else and I am sure everyone else here will agree.
That gem is followed by this:
"The HTC 8X comes in three brilliant colors?the deep blue I?m using, red, and yellow?plus black, and as with the Lumia devices, the color isn?t painted on, it?s baked into the unibody design, and issimply gorgeous looking."
I am not usually about grammar, but that whole statement is just one big WTF.
I'll re-quote this one cause it needs to be:
"Where Apple?s machine has harsh edges, the 8X is soft and wonderful. It?s almost fetishistic. I can?t stop touching it. (Enough of that.)"
This is on top of the fact that he gets the sensor facts wrong (No GPS Chip) as well as forgetting to mention that it has 2 amps (he says one), one of which is dedicated for the headphones.
Again, this is not a review. I like Paul for his support of the WP and I could care less about his choice of phone, but calling this a review is insulting to just about every WP8 including the 8x.