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hey what is up guys I'm cabby HD here and these are my top five best smartphones of 2013 now this is a different way of doing this list this is actually an unordered list it's not in order and I just didn't really feel right for me to pick a number one best smartphone of the year but that being said you can feel free to pick your favorite and leave it in the comments section below whether you do that before or after watching this video but I'm going to go ahead and look back at it take a bit of a retrospective look at five phones that really changed 2013 that were really important to 2013 and that's why they made this list the first for me is Moto X and Moto X changed 2013 because of its form factor and it's quick updates so this is a phone that didn't really originally appear to have flagship specs when it first came out obviously and I did my first review and hands-on of it talking about that whole deal and it's not a 1080p display and it's not the highest end processor but it feels amazing in the hand and it is a great first time Android phone for anyone considering switching to Android from any other operating system and I say quick updates because it was literally almost before some other nexuses to get KitKat it did beat the Nexus 4 I believe to get the latest version of Android 4.4 so if you care about that latest pure Android experience or even if you're an Android is iasts like a real hardcore android person you're still going to find a lot to like in the Moto X so that was a really interesting phone of the year I turned a lot of heads next for me is the Nokia Lumia 1020 now it may seem weird to have another 720p phone on this list and even more weird to have a Windows Phone on this list but this phone changed the way we look at cameras in smartphones like for good permanently if you saw the review of it I'll have all the reviews on all the links to all these phones that I talk about right down below right below that like button but the 1020 had a 41 megapixel camera and I talked about that in great depth in my full review of that phone and that that's changed a lot we don't see 41 megapixel cameras at all really in the wild these days whether it's in a DSLR or a smartphone so the fact that they were able to cram at many pixels in that quality of glass and sensor and all those optics into a phone really change the way we think of high-end smartphone cameras next up is the HTC One which made the list for two reasons its build quality and its speakers this device changed what we thought of smart phones for good in 2013 because of its build quality you never really looked at the galaxy s4 the same way after the HTC one came out that phone was made of solid aluminum it was a unibody precision milled and drilled finish it was an overall amazing phone to hold in the hand had that cold metal feel when you wake up in the morning it was a little bit weightier a little bit more compact than the Galaxy s4 but overall an amazingly well-built phone and then it had those massive front-facing boomsound speakers and again that also changes the way you think about audio in any other smart phone when you consider someone who wants the best sounding speakers in a phone that's immediately the number one recommendation have you looked at the HTC One it has boom sound speakers sounds ridiculously good compared to anything so those are the two reasons the one made the list next up for me on my list is the Galaxy Note 3 from Samsung and I think this is the first real phone that had pretty much no compromises all across the board which is this is a true high-end spec device in every single department where the biggest actual trade off is software whether or not you like the TouchWiz skin on top of Android but it had you know three gigabytes of RAM had a 13 megapixel camera with incredible photos and 4k video the only weird thing about it was the whole black versus white galaxy note 3 thing it's not as weird as it sounds it was just it was made of different materials the black Galaxy Note 3 I think actually had a much nicer build quality than the white Galaxy Note 3 because the white one would have stained if it was made of the material that the black one was made of but overall I'm a fan of that phone and it was actually a little bit more compact and had a little bit larger battery and better battery life than the Galaxy Note 2 so it was really an improvement in every area one of my favorite films of the year and still one on a stick and keep around and last on my list is number five which is the Nexus 5 and this is a lot of you've been asking what is my daily driver what phone do you seem to carry around most often this is it the is essentially the closest thing I've had to my daily driver for the past a month or so I've carried the Stormtrooper 32gig white nexus 5 and it's on my list for not just KitKat because it is the latest version of Android as quickly as possible and a nexus but for the price it has one of the best price to spec ratios in any smartphone to date it had the snapdragon 800 2 gigabytes of ram a 5-inch 1080p display and the latest version of android this is a top-notch phone that Google is selling for $350 starting in the Google Play Store so if you're able to get your hands on it that's the tough part if you're able to get your hands on the Nexus 5 it is an amazing deal as well as a great smartphone experience so that is why the Nexus 5 made the list believe it or not that's five already that is my five best phones for 2013 now there are plenty more smart phones of course that I didn't mention wasn't able to when talking about the best of you can't not talk about the Samsung Galaxy s4 when talking about 2013 that phone was the best-selling smartphone and really further established Samsung's dominance in Android so the Galaxy s4 was their flagship for the year and was a very good seller there was also the Nokia Lumia 1520 which I reviewed pretty recently actually one of my favorites and the highest end I think best built and best internally Windows Phone to come out this year there's a blackberry z30 sort of the blackberry flagship for the year maybe not one of the best phones of the year but certainly their best and many many more the Moto G is also something you should you should talk about when you talk about 2013 because that price to performance ratio under $200 to get the kind of specs and performance in a phone like the Moto G very impressive stuff now before I close out I want to refer you guys to another top 5 video from TLD today that's actually going up today as well I'll have a link right below that like button to his best 5 phones of the year so you get a different sort of perspective a different look at it from another angle we're both tech people but we both have different tastes so his list is different from mine so check that out right below and I will be having more sort of fun retrospective looks back at this past year in tech coming up very soon so be sure to subscribe if you have already those are coming up very soon that's all I have to say what is your number one what's your favorite phone of the past 365 days thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys in the next video