11 of the best smartphones that launched in 2014

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by Sindy Cator on December 30, 2014 at 11:42 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Roundups

With the beginning of 2015 just days away, it’s time to look back at some of the best smartphones released this year – and there’s quite a list to choose from. What follows are some of the biggest (in more ways than one) devices to be released in 2014, in no particular order. A lot will be familiar; 2014 was the year of incremental upgrades for many device makers, like Samsung and HTC. HTC One (M8) Back in March, HTC lifted the lid on its heavily leaked HTC One M8 smartphone, the successor to the well-liked original HTC One (M7). It brought an upgraded 2.3GHz…