Even though Black Friday ended over a week ago, we're still in the midst of the holiday shopping season. Although it's easy to buy into the pressure to get all of your gifts before the final hours of Cyber Monday, the truth is that both deals — and gift-buying opportunities, by extension — continue throughout most of the month of December. Case in point: I purchased two new phones this week as gifts for some of the people in my life, one of which was after the biggest deals wrapped up. What I learned wasn't that Black Friday is the best or worst period to buy new hardware — it's that buying a phone as a gift sucks, period.
