The Best Phones of 2018
This year's quiet innovations to the glass rectangle.
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The basics tenants of smartphone design weren't radically challenged this year. It's still a glass rectangle with some form of authentication via fingerprint or face shape, with a front- and rear-facing camera system.
But 2018 brought a few exceptional releases. Here are the new models worth a closer look.
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