Although Samsung's dominance in the smartphone market hasn't hit the major carriers in the United States, yet(AT&T, Sprint & Verizon), it is taken on the world of smartphones with shipments beating all of its closest competitors combined. Samsung also is also the top vendor for all wireless phones, in the world, too. It looks like the Samsung Galaxy in ruling the whole wireless device universe!

Two major reports show how fast Samsung has taken over the smartphone and handset market due to such hits as the Samsung Galaxy S III/Note.

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Google released its Wireless Shopper Study for April 2013 and it showed some major trends in smartphone buying and shopping. Shoppers search for the device weeks before buying and now that many devices are available across carriers, they decide on the device first and then may change carriers for the best deal, especially if there is no contract necessary or the device has 4G LTE data access.

Over a third (35%) shop for the latest and greatest device which is more than the 25% who did so last year.

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There are 0ver 70,000 people in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress and many new smartphones and devices were announced. Some may not make to the United States but they do represent what we'll be seeing in the United States in the near future.

Previously, the big manufacturers made their announcements at MWC.  Nowadays, vendors such as Samsung create their own big media events in New York such as the Samsung Galaxy S IV debut on March 14 in New York.

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The top makers of phones and smartphones in the world have shifted according to preliminary data, from the IDC Mobile Phone Tracker. ZTE and Huawei have made it to the top five in Q4 2012 smartphone vendors. Samsung topped the charts like it did in the United Sates for best smartphones.

219.4 million smartphones were shipped in 4Q12, which is 45.5% of all mobile phone shipments, the highest percentage ever.

Samsung's Galaxy-branded Android family, combined with sustained demand for its mid-range and entry-level models account for the remarkable shipment volumes.

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After five years of only knowing Verizon public relations reps over the phone it was a delight to meet Verizon spokespeople Albert Aydin and Brenda Raney.  Aydin gave a tour of some of the latest devices.  Here's his demo of the features and simplicity of the Samsung ATIV Odyssey.

In this video, I was looking more at Aydin than the ATIV, but it shows enough of the features to give you an idea of what the Samsung Odessy ATIV is like.

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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.

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We have the final results for the best smartphone of 2012. When I tell people I am the Editor of Wireless and Mobile news, they ask me, what is the best phone? The first question, I ask is what carrier do you have? Then I ask how they want to use their smartphone.

Tabulation & Investigation Leads to Better Smartphone Information

We've tabulated all the reviews from the best expert resources to discover what is the best smartphone from review of reviews which follow.

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In 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.

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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.

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Motorola 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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In 2012 LG increased its quality and market share adding more smartphones to the WiMo News' Top Best Coolest Hottest List than any year before. We've seen the top CR / DT smartphones, best T-Mobile smartphones, best HTC smartphones, now let's look at how well LG did in 2102.

Last year, LG had no winners into the best smartphones of 2011 list  The LG Thrill did make it as runner up on the AT&T network.  This year there are many LG smartphones competing for the best of the year.

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