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Tip: Video Shoot-Out: Droid RAZR HD vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (III), Note 2, LG Optimus G & Nokia Lumia 920

06/17/201312/30/2012 by Lynn Walford

We already know what the reviewers thought of many of the best reviewed smartphones, we thought that we could better help our readers by running the best smartphones around through a series of tests that many other places don't do. Or review of the best smartphones revealed different winners than this test.

If you look at the world around us, you see more people using their phones as cameras than anything else. Often it's not for photographs but for videos of special events or important moments. The other day, a friend showed me her iPhone to show the her foster puppies, she didn't show a photo but a video of the puppies running around in the backyard.

AT&T Best Phones 2012

06/17/201312/18/2012 by Glibert Shar

ATT Top Best Coolest Hottest Smartphones

AT&T was the first carrier to sell the iPhone and still offers subsidized smartphones to customers with grandfathered unlimited data accounts. This year's best smartphones after surveying the top best sources, prorated, offered some surprises and also insight into the wireless business as a whole.

So far, we've completed the best smartphone from Consumer Reports, T-Mobile, DT, HTC, Droid, Motorola, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, trends, sales figures and the best for 2012.

The AT&T best smartphone list is the most varied out of all the carriers. The list includes the most Windows Phones, two phablets and many options. It is also the second list to have two iPhone models in the top ten. AT&T is the only carrier list to include a rugged phone that is - waterproof in 1m for 30 mins. We also noticed that AT&T offers some the cheapest most powerful smartphones with a contract.

AT&T has extended its return policy for holiday gifts, but not as long as Verizon Wireless' policy.

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

06/17/201312/07/2012 by Lynn Walford

Best Smartphones 2012 Review of Review Reviews

WiMo 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.

Best Smartphones of 2012 Round 1 CR: LG Optimus G, Samsung Galaxy S III, Droid RAZR MAXX HD & iPhone 5

12/26/201212/04/2012 by Bryan Johnston

Consumer Reports is one of the few publications and organizations that does not accept advertising. Consumer Reports claims that this makes their ranking impartial. We reviewed Consumer Reports ratings for smartphones this year and found some surprises as well as similarities with technology media reviewers.

Update 12/18/2012 - We've rounded-up the 2012 results for best smartphone for T-Mobile, DT, HTC, LG, Droid , Motorola, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, trends, sales figures and the best for 2012.

Some things that Consumer Reports hold important are call quality, ability to play Flash, ability to create Microsoft Word and Excel documents, ability to use voice/data at the same time, ease of use, separate call buttons and removable batteries.

In previous years, Consumer Reports reviews were months behind online reviews. The company has improved its speed of testing. This year we see only a few omissions of newly released smartphones such as the Nokia Lumia 920, HTC 8X and Nexus 4.

iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, Droid RAZR MAXX HD, Note II, Lumia 920 & HTC One X/8

12/03/201212/03/2012 by Lynn Walford

November started off brisk holiday sales for all carriers, with the top seller the iPhone 5 for all carriers except T-Mobile where the Samsung Galaxy S III was the top seller, according to the latest report from Mike Walkley at Canaccord Genuity research. There's a new Samsung Galaxy device that is reaching the top three and that is the Samsung Galaxy Note II.

The top best smartphones of the fall of 2012 were represented by many manufacturers with Android the most mentioned operating system. The company checks stores over the country to find out the bestsellers.

For global sales, Walkely predicted with November checks showing strong sales and improved supply of iPhone 5 " combined with Apple’s aggressive iPhone 5 launch plans for the December quarter and solid legacy iPhone 4S/4 model sales, we anticipate 47.5M iPhone sales during the December quarter."

Walkely reported "checks indicated mixed sales of new Windows Phone 8 smartphones, including the Nokia Lumia 920 at AT&T and HTC Windows 8X at AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile."

Previously he predicted that in October the iPhone 5 will make a big come back with 4G LTE access and a larger form factor.