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Buying a smartphone - especially your first smartphone - can be really daunting. The formula is something like: Features x operating system x handset x carrier = AARGGHH!!! Brian Cooley lays out the Top 5 things people like you consider when making that smartphone choice. Hopefully this helps!

After you've watched this video, then take a look at CNET Editors' favorite smartphones as of this moment.

Whenever iPhone 5 arrives, there are a few key features we need to see to make it a worthy successor to the iPhone 4. Here's the short list.

(For the longer list, you can also peruse David Carnoy's thoughts on that.)

If you think Web sites have some stupid names, wait till you see this list of the dumb things device makers call their products. Brian Cooley cringes through the Top 5 for you.

Up for more incredulity? Check out David Carnoy's slideshow of 20 stupidly named pieces of gear.

LED LCD is the red-hot TV tech these days, outshining consumer interest in 3D and even connected TV. Brian Cooley guides you through a countdown of CNET's Top 5 LED LCD televisions on the market right now.

And if you're looking for a different kind of HDTV, we have them sliced and diced a few other ways as well.

We check out the fastest-growing search terms according to Google for the first quarter of 2011.

2011 promises to be a breakout year for really different new technologies. Brian Cooley runs down the Top 5 to keep an eye on.

Another great way to scan the forecast for 2011 is to look over CNET's "Best of CES" award winners and categories.

It took years for the iPhone to get out of AT&T jail and fly to Verizon. But if you're about to make the move, hold on a minute: all is not perfect. Brian Cooley has five good reasons to hang on perhaps just a little longer, perhaps for iPhone 5.

And after you watch the video, here are CNET's latest reviews of Verizon phones to give you something to consider.

There's a lot of hype around hybrids as the only truly efficient class of cars. Not true. Small displacement gas and diesel cars might be your best choice for transportation that is economical to buy as well as use. Brian Cooley runs down a list of top picks.

And here is CNET's Green Car Buying Guide if you want to get more information.

From butt dialing to a bungled reply-all or the newer traps of errant social posts and geotracking, it seems there is no end to the ways you can ruin your day with technology. What fun! Here are the Top 5 digital screw-ups you can easily avoid.