Shopping for a mobile phone can easily be a stimulating and arduous experience. Along with the guarantee of something new and wonderful, it delivers the fear of dedication, and also worse, the prospect of saddling yourself to a lousy gadget for 2 years. The good news is for you, Engadget invests bunches of time playing with the most up to date gear and we’re regularly on the lookout for what’s coming next. If you’re desiring to take the discomfort from searching for a smartphone, you’ve concerned the right spot. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Engadget’s smartphone buyer’s guide: your one-stop resource to discovering the very best and most exciting mobiles on the market today.

Prior to you dive in, however, we have actually exposed a couple of changes to the purchaser’s guide, so take a moment to prepare yourself for what’s in store. First and foremost, you’ll now discover alternate varieties to supplement our top selections. This ought to currently be familiar to many of you, which is the exact same format we use for our seasonal gift overviews. The next one is a biggie: we’ve dropped the QWERTY option. By and huge, makers and carriers alike have repositioned their focus away from keyboard-equipped smartphones, and you’ll rarely find even more than one choice on any sort of given provider. That said, if you still firmly insist on the tactile experience, you’ll constantly discover every thing you should understand in our evaluations. Finally, whenever possible, you’ll now discover prices from Amazon Wireless, which permits us to provide you with even more compelling finances options and highlight the considerable savings that you could score by circumventing the carriers. It’s not like they require your charity, anyhow.

If you’re curious to see exactly how it all unfolded– and we understand you are– join us after the break, where we round up the extremely greatest mobile phones of the period.

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