{"id":100,"date":"2026-04-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/us-worst-smartphones-china-batteries-cameras-apple-iphone-john-ternus\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:00:00","slug":"us-worst-smartphones-china-batteries-cameras-apple-iphone-john-ternus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/us-worst-smartphones-china-batteries-cameras-apple-iphone-john-ternus\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>The US gets the worst phones<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Recent Samsung, Google, and Apple phones with two \u2018thumbs down\u2019 emoji on a pink background\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/268491_The_US_gets_the_worst_phones_CVirginia.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">Apple and Samsung dominate the US phone market, and they&#8217;ve done so for years. Together with Google, they&#8217;ve shaped our sense of what a smartphone is and what it can do, pushing the boundaries of mobile photography, software, and processing power. But over the last few years, they&#8217;ve sat back, content to iterate rather than innovate &#8211; and in the interim, China&#8217;s tech giants have plowed ahead. Now a gulf is growing between the phones on sale in the US and those available in the rest of the world. US phone buyers are missing out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Some of the blame for that gap lies with Apple. Where it goes, the market follows, and in recent years it&#8217;s gone s \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/917340\/us-worst-smartphones-china-batteries-cameras-apple-iphone-john-ternus\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Apple and Samsung dominate the US phone market, and they&#8217;ve done so for years. Together with Google, they&#8217;ve shaped our sense of what a smartphone is and what it can do, pushing the boundaries of mobile photography, software, and processing power. But over the last few years, they&#8217;ve sat back, content to iterate rather than [\u2026]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-consumer-tech","tag-culture-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}