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Year in Review: Top 10 most popular posts on The Toybox in 2010

By | December 7, 2010, 5:00am PST

Summary: Based on traffic, here’s a look back at our 10 most read posts of 2010, ending with the most popular of them all.

2010 has brought us a ton of new toys to play with, including cheaper e-book readers, gaming consoles going more motion-based and every company looking to add “3D” to the product name.

While we’ve covered a wide variety of gadgets in the past year, it seems that readers are most interested in a select few - namely the iPhone 4. Based on traffic, here’s a look back at our 10 most read posts of 2010, ending with the most popular of them all.

10. Some iPhone 4 orders being canceled by Apple, AT&T

When the iPhone 4 was first announced in June, it was met with a lot of excitement. That quickly soured, however, even when the handheld was up for pre-order and not even in stores yet. Because the online stores were inundated with a record (but hardly unexpected) amount of traffic, AT&T and Apple’s online stores were crashing all over the place. Reports flooded in that the companies were canceling orders, which was only the beginning of the PR nightmare Apple suffered with the latest iPhone release this past summer.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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SonofaSailor 7th Dec 2010
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God forbid people have a choice!
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Really want an hp slate
NonZealot 7th Dec 2010
It is the only tablet on the market worth having.
@NonZealot Yes I want to fork out money for a touch device with a point and click interface.

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but it sounds like the lack of 3G to be the biggest complaint overall, but then by placing 3G within the device I imagine it would lock it to one carrier, as opposed to just swapping out a usb key 3G adaptor.
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SonofaSailor 7th Dec 2010
@John Zern

God forbid people have a choice!

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