Best smartphones. Smartphone rankings and The Verge.

[Update: A reader informs me that Verge is sorta moving in this direction -- of having a simple means of sorting, ranking and comparing meta features of devices. But...it's hard to find, not terribly accessible, and not so easy to operate. Yet. If I get more evidence of this then, even if Verge doesn't give me any credit, I may shut down my Smartphone Rankings. For a one-man shop reliant on book sales or donations, it's nearly impossible for me to continue this service.]

So far, as much as I'm hating the awful name, The Verge, and as much as their home page seems deliberately crafted to confuse me, I am thoroughly enjoying the select content I have discovered within Le Verge, thanks to my Twitter followers.

This includes, among others, their excellent and detailed review of the Nokia Lumia 800.

Already, the Verge has set the benchmark for smartphone reviews. I read smartphone reviews all the time and from multiple sources and no one is even close to the  (the) Verge's detailed review.

Another thing I like?

Glad you asked!

That following the review and gallery, Verge *very liberally borrows* from my smartphone rankings methodology. They award points for Design, Ecosystem, Content, etc. 

But there is a problem. There is still no f-ing table that allows readers to sort through, by one or more rated factors, all the smartphones! This is bad. 

People, people. I am your humble smartphone wars writer. But I can't score every smartphone, not even every really good smartphone, like the Lumia 800, which is borderline really good. When I began my SMARTPHONE RANKINGS it was *explicitly* designed so that actual customers, actual potential buyers, not nerds who read This is My Verge or sites like it could easiliy determine the best device for them. A set score for...Price. OS. Content. Usability. Productivity. Design.

These all mattered. These are most important to smartphone users.

The number of "dual core" processors and shit like that is meaningless to 99% of the populace, minimum. It's like talking horsepower when the soccer mom comes into the showroom looking at minivans. And it is a reflection of the *ignorance* of the *reviewer* not the customer -- or site visitor.

And three damn years after I started it still *no one* is offering a smartphone rankings or scoring sheet, highly accessible, easily sortable, designed for smartphone users, as I have designed mine. This is such a failing on the part of Big Blog that it calls into question how much they really know about smartphones -- from a user perspective. 

Only...I simply can't score everything. Heck, I even had to stop offering detailed reviews a year ago and switched to only providing a straight numbers-based review. 

Here's hoping The Verge, while giving me due credit, 'lifts' my idea and completely 'borrows' the rankings table and uses it from now on for all their smartphone reviews. That way, everybody wins.