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Occasionally, I will recommend a  news article, book, blog post, research or a short video clip to view relating to public relations. This “eperini Readview” references a MACWORLD article reprint from PCWorld.com about how smartphones are hurting consumers–mbp<\/em><\/p>\n I would like to hear from you.  Do you agree?<\/em><\/p>\n by Ginny Miles, PCWorld<\/p>\n You just got the latest and greatest smartphone<\/a>—one with a gigantic display and a dual-core processor. For three months, you’re the happiest geek in town. Then an almost identical phone comes out, for the same price, but with a quadcore processor and an even bigger display. Oh, and it’s a 4G LTE phone. Now, your 4G HSPA+ phone on the same network feels like a piece of garbage. And you’re stuck with it for nearly two years—and maybe even longer because now you’re afraid of falling into the same upgrade trap. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n Last year, new phones seemed to be coming out every week. Perhaps the worst case of upgrade insanity involved the Motorola Droid Razr<\/a>. Back in November, it was one of the hottest phones on Verizon. But it had one big issue: battery life. Over 3G and Wi-Fi, the battery lasted a reasonable amount of time. But over 4G, games killed the battery; and during my hands-on testing, when I streamed a video clip longer than 5 minutes, I saw significant loss of battery life.<\/p>\n