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what's up phone lovers I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo every year we like to have the staff pick their favorite phone of the year I have the privilege and honor and just the giddiness I get a test every smartphone that's come out pretty much over the past year so I thought instead of just naming my favorite phone I would name my top five but then I started making my top five list and I realized there are too many phones that I like so instead of my top five smart phones of 2014 I present to you my top 10 smart phones of 2014 ending of course with my number one choice and these are obviously in order of how I like the devices this isn't a definitive list it's actually just a personal thing for me usually I do reviews I'm sort of broadcasting for a general audience and sort of take my own preferences out of it these are my list of phones that have been my favorite personally to use and test through 2014 this was a super hard list to make and I'm sure I'm gonna get plenty of hate for it a lot of phones that I test that I liked could make the list cuz only ten of them so things like disease so we're getting Galaxy alpha did not make the cuts without further ado it's going to get started coming in at number 10 perhaps a surprise to some of you the blackberry Passport the sucker was released in September and I really liked it before you jump down my throat let me just quantify this BlackBerry OS 10.3 is really really good my big knock on blackberry 10 was ridiculously poor app support now however that is not a valid argument now you've got BlackBerry's app world you've got full Amazon App Store a built-in you can direct download almost every APK from Google Play so you get almost the best-of-three app stores I love the keyboard the size was a little bit weird that square design 4.5 inch square at the 1445 1440 resolution took a little bit of getting used to I miss a physical keyboard and I really liked a blackberry stuff coming in at number 9 the galaxy s5 this is ancient by smartphone time is released back in April remember it's got a 5.1 inch screen it's 1080p I liked the phone I didn't absolutely love it I think Samsung disappointed a lot of people what the s5 ultimately ended up being I think that's why we saw a huge design change with the Galaxy ala phone we saw with the note 4 but it still sold a lot it might not have sold as many as Samsung it hoped cell phone would introduce fingerprint scanners and heart rate sensors and of course a lot of people love it coming in at number 8 the Droid turbo this would have gotten much higher on my list that would have released a lollipop already forward supposedly is coming sometime soon this came out way back in October if remember this 5.2 inch qHD thing was a pretty badass phone at that Kevlar back 39 hundred million power battery I pretty much had every feature you could want for a Verizon I loved it for that lollipop it would have been way higher on my list coming in at number 7 the LG g3 the sucker came out in June 5.5 inch qHD screen was a first q HD screen a mass released in the US market bezels are really thin buttons on the back had laser autofocus not instills one of my favorite phones but obviously there were a few that I liked a little bit more so let's talk about those number six the HTC One m8 released all the way back in March this 5-inch screen phone I like the design I think each TC doesn't incredible job with their devices the metal body feel really good the older pixel camera might have been a little disappointing to some but overall I think it was a really great package plus I kind of like wake she's he does with sense coming in at number five another Samsung the note 4 released in September this 5.7 inch qHD screen phone has pretty much everything you'd want in a modern phablet device Samsung I think nailed this product everything they miss at the s5 they hit home with the note 4 the design way better it feels premium the screen q HD and is probably the best screen I've seen on any phone going right now lover 8 TouchWiz its there lollipop update suppose it coming very soon of course all the S Pen features I think Samsung absolutely nailed the note form come unit number for the Moto X 2014 version released in September I love this guy from myriad of reasons among them you can customize the phone to look any way you want from leathers looking like the back of a football different colors moto maker is really pretty awesome getting a phone that's customized just for you I love that it's already getting a lollipop you're getting native naked Android as Google intended which I really like I have got carrier support from us every carrier outdoor out there I love the build to the phone I like the circular flash though it doesn't improve much think it looks really cool and I've thoroughly enjoyed using the phone coming in at number three the Nexus 6 released back in November this 5.9 six inch qHD phone has every speck you could think of for a super phone its God in there the sideways was a little bit big for my taste and I really like big phones I loved the way the phone performed I love the way the lollipop look I think Motorola built up did a really nice job though I didn't like all the greasy fingerprints that showed up on the back of the blue one the white and kind of radiation color one was way better everything about this phone was absolutely awesome I really really liked we are getting to number one wearing the big guns now coming in at number two the iPhone six-plus released in September this will make the list because it was a big departure for Apple not so much on the software side but finally a big iPhone which was a lot of what I was asking for I've liked the using it I still think the software is deficient from a hardware standpoint I really like using I like having iMessage I like having a shared photo galleries and I like sort of being inside of that Apple ecosystem oh well I think there's a lot of room for improvement Apple enabled as far as they could with iOS 8 the iPhone 6 plus which brings us to number one if I may get a drumroll please out of all the phone I tested this year my favorite phone the one I enjoyed carrying in my pocket the most is the oneplus one this guy came out around June of 2014 this 5.5 inch phone was rocking CyanogenMod and brought a crazy new model to the market first it was really an expensive 64 gigs for about 350 bucks I know a lot of people took umbrage with their invite system which was done because they just didn't have the money to mass market the phone their mass produced of phones rather when you got an invite that's when the phone was made hopefully that's gonna get Ali gated soon they've opened up the phone source sale on mass markets now there's been some confusion by their cyanogen is gonna keep being on the next version of it but the phone as it stood when I tested was my favorite phone it was quick was fast the camera got better they improved the screen the way it looked they improved the touch sensitivity I loved everything cyanogen offer else it'll make my phone look like a lollipop day after Google announced what they called Android hell at the time you could skin it you could see me can do anything you wanted with it right out of the box and I absolutely loved away the fete sandstone back felt just everything about this device was enjoyable to use right out of the box and I think the oneplus folks absolutely nailed it if you want to get what I still consider to be one of the best phones of the year look to pick up a oneplus one now that's a little easier to buy at an absolutely killer price you smack a Samsung logo on there or an LG logo on the back the price of that phone out wager almost doubled I don't know how they did it but there is no sacrificing quality for price did they hit this one square out of the park so what do I think of my list yell at me all you want I can take it what did I miss what did I not miss on here what should have been number one what would your top 10 or top 5 or top 3 be I would like to hear from you sir or madam leave them in my pants region down below until next time I am drought or injure from TechnoBuffalo see ya next video bye thank you guys for watching another TechnoBuffalo video hope you enjoyed we'd love to serve electronics here and if you are its passionate about them as we are hit the big subscribe button we've got new videos come at you every day we talk about phones tablets laptops and everything in between and if you like video games check us out at twitch where we play video games a little admittedly not very well at twitch.tv slash TechnoBuffalo all the links are right down below