Eric Griffith

Ithaca, Massachusetts

Author of some books. Writer/Editor for https://t.co/TkIRSDIpei. Chief cook and dishwasher. He's a Dad. Views and opinions are all mine, duh.

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Business Choice 2025: The Top VoIP Provider According to Our Readers

2 weeks ago | pcmag.com | Eric Griffith

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. If office phones are integral to your business plan, our readers choose this VoIP brand above all others for powering your voice communication.
Readers’ Choice 2025: Your Favorite Mobile Carriers, Phone, and Tablet Brands

1 month ago | pcmag.com | Eric Griffith

Each year, we ask our readers to rate their mobile devices, operating systems, and cellular service providers, and each year, the numbers are interesting. According to Exploding Topics, Apple commands 58.8% of the US phone market, but only 40.1% of our US-based survey respondents rated iPhones. More survey respondents use iPads (43%) over other tablet options, but again, that's lower than StatCounter'sreported US market share for Apple of 55.4%. We are PCMag, after all.
Business Choice 2025: The Top Mobile Carriers, Phone, and Tablet Brands for Work

1 month ago | pcmag.com | Eric Griffith

Since the first smartphone debuted, those pocket-sized computers (sometimes barely used as actual phones) have changed everything about our lives, especially how we work. Not long ago, in 2021, a Statista survey found that 64% of people worldwide use their personal phones for business-related purposes. Our own Business Choice survey asks the same question and found only 37.8% of respondents say the same today.
102 Expert iPhone Tricks You Should Know

1 month ago | pcmag.com | Eric Griffith

Apple iPhones arrived in 2007 running an unnamed operating system. A year later, it received this boring sobriquet: iPhone OS 1. By 2010, marketing got its act together and came up with "iOS," just in time for the debut of version 4. We're now up to iOS 18. In the previous decade and a half, iOS has undergone a bevy of changes—from embracing dedicated apps (in version 2) and dropping skeuomorphism for flat images (iOS 7) to finally embracing widgets and, for better and worse, AI.
102 Expert iPhone Tricks You Should Know

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Eric Griffith

3 hours agoVolkswagen is slashing production in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the ID.4 electric SUV is built. Although the ID.4 was the third top-selling EV in the US earlier this year behind Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3, the move suggests it may not last long. Volkswagen cuts ID.4 production in the US After …
Business Choice 2025: Your Favorite Laptop Brands for Work

1 month ago | pcmag.com | Eric Griffith

Mobile workstation sales are a tiny part of the overall laptop market—just 2.1%, according to numbers at Statista—but if you use the word workstation in its generic sense rather than referring to professional design and engineering apps, the numbers become a lot larger. Notebooks of all shapes and sizes are used to for work, at home as well as in the office. In our survey, 19.6% of respondents say they have a single laptop for both personal and business use.
Readers’ Choice 2025: Your Favorite Laptop Brands

1 month ago | pcmag.com | Eric Griffith

According to research firm Current Analysis, laptop computers first outsold desktop PCs in the United States 20 years ago. They've dominated sales since 2008. Last year, notebook shipments outnumbered desktops by 2.6 to 1, according to Statista. Portability, durability, and desktop-class capability are all hallmarks if the form today, making it likely your next high-powered computer will be a laptop. One question remains: When you're in the market for a new PC, which laptop brand should you choose?
PetPace 2.0

2 months ago | au.pcmag.com | Eric Griffith

The PetPace was the first dog collar to focus on overall health, not just simple activity tracking. The company’s long-gestating follow-up, the PetPace 2.0 (starting at $379 for the collar and a one-year membership), is far more advanced than the original. It's packed with sensors to track just about every aspect of a dog's wellness, including activity, sleep, pulse, respiration, and temperature, and it's enhanced by useful AI-powered insights.
Readers’ Choice 2025: The Dating Apps Our Readers Love (and Hate) Most

2 months ago | pcmag.com | Eric Griffith

Dating is difficult. And online dating can be brutal. Go ahead, ask any single person, and we bet you'll be hard-pressed to find many who enjoy creating a profile, putting themselves out there, and logging into apps to swipe through scores of strangers with no promise that any of them will be "the one." Here are PCMag, we've reviewed dating apps for more than a decade, but this is our first survey asking our readers how they feel about the apps and services that put you out there on the market.
The Top Personal Finance, Payment, and Investment Apps for 2025

2 months ago | pcmag.com | Eric Griffith

It's a new year. Time to take stock of your assets, take a look at your spending, and set yourself on a course for financial success in 2025. Luckily, it's never been easier. There are high-quality, easy-to-use apps and software to handle all of your budgeting, investing, and payment needs. But which apps are the best for the job? This is our second year of Readers' Choice surveys covering personal finance, digital wallets, and payment apps. And we've adding a new category this year: stock trading.