CNET's Overhyped Cell Phones

CNET's Overhyped Cell Phones lists four cell phones that don't quite live up to their hype billing. In no particular order, they are:

• Motorola Q (ProductCritic Score = 77)
  
• LG VX8500 Chocolate (ProductCritic Score = 75)
  
• Bang & Olufsen Serene
  
• Motorola RAZR V3i (ProductCritic Score = 81)

Note that ProductCritic doesn't have a score for the Bang & Olufsen. Although our aim is to have as comprehensive a database as possible, we are trying to target the brands and models that people are actually considering (since that's the whole point of making ProductCritic as useful as possible for people). I've never even heard of the Bang & Olufsen and at a $1000 price point (which CNET calls out), I doubt it's a phone that many people are actually considering.

I actually don't think the Motorola's or the LG are too hyped given their ProductCritic scores but I guess if the hype really points people to a high expectation, then the ProductCritic scores are definitely disappointments. I don't quite understand CNET though, as they are one of the participants in generating the hype in the first place!