Gearburn’s top mobile phones of 2011

It’s been a dramatic year for the mobile phone industry. Nokia leaped from a burning platform to became hesitantly convalescent with Microsoft’s aid. Google breathed new life into a floundering Motorola Mobility. RIM continued to bleed with its shares losing more than 70% of their value this fiscal year alone. Apple lost its visionary CEO, while HP killed its WebOS phones, and almost canned WebOS entirely, deciding at the last minute to Open Source it.

Amidst all of this, just about every major handset manufacturer was tied up in some form of patent litigation, and topping it all off, Japan’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami threatened to severely disrupt NAND flash production.

It’s quite a miracle then, that handset manufacturers still managed to produce some of the best phones to ever grace our planet.

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