Among the 9894 people who voted in a week-long poll in that story, 44 percent chose Apple's storied (or ) handset.

That also means 56 percent voted against the iPhone. The runner-up, with support from 29 percent of survey takers, was the Motorola Droid X, which lost its early lead after the poll's first few days.

In third place, with love from 12 percent of poll-takers, came the first 4G phone, the HTC EVO. Only 5 percent of readers picked the Samsung Captivate, and less than 4 percent said to stick with RIM and upgrade to the BlackBerry Torch 9800.

(The poll, by the way, was and therefore inaccessible to iPhone users. Were the iPhone fans voting from their computers, or from a non-Apple mobile device, or using a ?)

Beyond the Grace Period