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Smartphones have changed a lot this year. In January, a 5.5-inch “phablet” seemed absurd. Today, millions of people own one.
And that’s just one example of how our phones have changed. We rounded up the most important new smartphone releases of 2012 to give you a quick look at how far we’ve come.
How we picked the phones: We’re not just judging these devices on how good or bad they were. We also took into account how they pushed innovation forward with new form factors, useful features, and the like. We judged the phones based on the time they were released, so some may seem outdated. But that doesn’t make them any less important.
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