Top Best Coolest Hottest Verizon Smartphones Holiday Buying 4 SG S3, Droid, DNA, RAZR HD, MAXX & iPhone

Verizon Best Droid Samsung Galaxy S III, Smartpphne

Verizon Best Droid Samsung Galaxy S III, SmartpphneIn 2012, Verizon Wireless introduced many fast large full powered smartphones.  It also stopped subsidizing grandfathered unlimited data smartphones in June and introduced the share everything plan which includes mobile hotspots, but requires shared data to bought in Gigabytes.  We've looked at all the expert reviews throughout the year to create the best smartphones for 2012 for Verizon Wireless.

So far we covered the best smartphones from Consumer Reports, T-Mobile, DT, HTC, Droid, Motorola, Sprint, AT&T,  trends, sales figures and as we approach best for 2012.

Verizon Wireless offers great 4G LTE coverage and good customer service.  It is however one of the most expensive plans especially if you are a heavy data user and don't have grandfathered unlimited data.

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Droid RAZR MAXX HD Maxes RAZR M, Atrix HD and Photon Q

Best Motorola Smartphones

Best Motorola SmartphonesMotorola made some of the top contenders for the best smartphones of 2012.  As we countdown to the best smartphone of 2012, here are the best smartphones of 2012 from Motorola.

Previous round-ups include sales figures, surprises, Consumer Reports, DT, best of LG, best of HTC and best T-Mobile smartphones.

The best Motorola smartphones in reverse order by WiMo News' Review of Reviews calculating the results from multiple sources are:

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Droid 4, Bionic, RAZR, MAXX & Xoom Jelly Bean Updates Promised Atrix HD 12/12

Motorola Updates

Motorola UpdatesMotorola has updated its Android software update page.  After excluding the Motorola Atrix 4G, earlier this year, they have updated some details of the planned Android updates for the end of this year and beyond.

The first good news is that the Motorla Atrix HD rollout to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will begin in December of this year. Popular Verizon Wireless models to that will be upgraded to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will be the Droid RAZR, Droid RAZR/MAXX, Droid 4 and Droid Bionic. Some of these models appear in the best smartphones of 2012 Review of Reviews from WiMo News.

There is also good news for Motorola Xoom (3G/LTE) tablet owners there will be update in the first quarter of 2013.

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Best Smartphones Round 2 DT-HTC 8X/One, Samsung Galaxy S III, RAZR & More

Best Smartphones 2012 Review of Review Reviews

Best Smartphones 2012 Review of Review ReviewsWiMo News is continuing its round-up of distilling the review sources for the year of 2012. Our ginormous database is crunching out numbers with the help of human formulas that reveals some trends and surprises.  So far Consumer Reports gave higher ranking to LG and Motorola, there were few if any keyboarded winners and sales figures from Canaccord Genuity do not reflect the reviews.  Today we look at Digital Trends that really likes Windows Phones.

Our data includes all the smartphones throughout the year.  We prorated their figures to be in similar context as other technical reviews. These figures are entered into the master file and will be incorporated into final results.

Digital Trends  passed over the recently released Sony Xperia TL, other choices were similar to other tech media outlets.  Like last year, DT rated Windows Phones highly with the HTC 8X one of its best rated devices. Smartphone makers that achieved the top scores were HTC with highest scores followed by Samsung, Motorola, Apple, LG and Nokia.

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