"The Verge" and "Review" are two words best not seen together. I don't often tend to look at reviews on many sites as you often have to rely on that one persons opinion, their technical knowledge and any bias they have towards other products.
Sure, if you want a device on release date, try and read as many reviews online as possible then make a decision based off of that. If I'm not buying a device as soon as it gets released, I can often get a good opinion on a product by hearing what actual users of the device think to it after buying it and using it. Yes, you could say that reading stuff about Nokia's etc on WPCentral will be biased, but people will still share thoughts on what they didn't think was as good as they expected, or any problems they are having etc and post pics they have taken with the phone. I would never buy a product based on what the likes of The Verge or CNET for example think of it. At least when I've read reviews on GSMArena, they often go into the nitty gritty details and with testing the camera, they always come up with the original pictures they took to prove their opinion. That's the kind of review I trust more.