Its Achilles heel, however, is the still mediocre quality of available apps.

BBC: The smartphone battle: Meet the top contestants

But the larger question is: has the mediocre quality of the candidates, the public boredom with their debates and the unexciting, not to say confusing, method of selection set the Conservatives back rather than forward on the road to recovery?

ECONOMIST: Canada

Like all the other smartphones on the list, it also had mediocre scores for voice quality, a sacrifice that seems common in the smartphone market.

CNN: Consumer Reports: Samsung Galaxy S4 is top phone

The World Economic Forum ranked the United States at a mediocre 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010.

FORBES: U.S. Science Education: Standards of Mediocrity?

First, the production quality of the film was really mediocre, which surprised me.

FORBES: A Broken Promised Land

However, the average quality of child care in this country is mediocre and does not provide our youngest children with the support they need to arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

FORBES: U.S. Rep. George Miller