What is the Best Smartphone in 2013?

This year has seen a great competition between smartphones manufacturers to attract the attention of consumers to their new devices, in order to increase their shares in the market.

All smartphones companies provide a competitive advantage in the smart phone to support it in front of consumers in a market featuring a wide range of smartphones, and is characterized by high purchasing movement, where a previous study of the IDC company predicted shipped more than a billion smartphone in the market during 2013.

  

Group of phones from several companies such as Samsung, Apple, Nokia, Sony, HTC, LG and Motorola, emerged in the smartphone market this year, but competing a special set of phones for the title of best in 2013.

Apple iPhone 5S:

iPhone 5S is one of the leading smartphones that were unveiled during 2013, which Apple supported its device by first new 64-bit processor, in addition to the fingerprint sensor.

  

iPhone 5S has the same design of iPhone 5, it made ​​of aluminum, put in black color in addition to new gold color and gray, it includes 4 inch Retina screen with resolution of 640 × 1136 inch and  8 megapixel camera.

Samsung Galaxy S4:

Samsung owns the lion's share of the share of sales of smartphones that running Android operating system , and  Galaxy S4 is one of the most popular phones launched by the South Korean company this year.

  

Samsung Galaxy S4 provided with 5 inch Super AMOLED Full HD screen, supported by a layer of Gorilla 3 glass resistant to shocks and scratches, the device available in two versions first 1.6GH Octa-core Exynos processor, the other 1.9 GHz Qualcomm quad-core processor, and both versions has 13 megapixel camera.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3:

Galaxy S4 was not the only phone from the Korean company that is worth joining the list of competition for the title of the best phones of 2013, where Samsung introduced Galaxy Note 3 tablet phone.

  

Galaxy Note 3 has 5.7 inch Full HD screen, it available in two versions the first with 2.3 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 80 processor, and the other with 1.9 GHz Exynos eight -core processor, and has 13-megapixel camera capable of recording video at 4k.

HTC One:

Amid strong competition taking place in the smartphone market between the Apple and Samsung, several companies are trying to put up a strong devices, including " HTC " which was adopted on its new smartphone "One" in the competition this year .

  

The phone made ​​from a single piece of aluminum, it has 4.7 inch Full HD screen, supported by 1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor.

  

The company introduced a new technology alternative to mega-pixel camera to measure the accuracy in its new smartphone, which is (UltraPixel) which absorb more light at 300 % and offer the best HDR images for video or hard photography.

LG G2:

LG abandoned "Optimus" name which has always been a companion to smartphones when it announce  LG 2 smartphone.

  

LG 2 smartphone has 5.2 inch Full HD screen,  2.26 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 13 megapixel rear camera.

  

LG provided the device with control buttons on the back.

Sony Xperia Z1:

This year, Sony launched several smartphones to compete strongly in the smartphone market, one of the smartphones launched by Sony is Xperia Z1.

  

Sony Xperia Z1 provided by 5 inch screen with resolution of 1080 × 1980 pixels , in addition to 2.2 GHz MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor.

  

Xperia Z1 smartphone compete strongly in the field of ​​the camera where it has 20.7 MP rear camera , as characterized by its resistance to water and dust.

Nokia Lumia 1020:

Another smartphone compete strongly in the category of camera phones, the phone " Lumia 1020 " , which is one of the leading devices revealed by the Finnish company in 2013.

  

Lumia 1020 is the first phone has 41 megapixel camera accurately between Windows Phone devices, it has 4.5 inch AMOLED screen with resolution of 768 × 1280 pixels, and 1.5 GHz quad-core processor.

BlackBerry Z10:

BlackBerry Z 10 is the first smartphone running BB10 operating system, which included a new user interface and touch screen completely unlike the majority of the phones the Canadian company, which has long been characterized by the full keyboard.

  

BlackBerry Z10 has 4.2 inch screen with resolution of 768 × 1280 pixels, and powered by 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon MSM8960, and camera 8 megapixel.

Google Nexus 5:

During 2013, Google unveiled its new smartphone which carries the name "Nexus 5”, which runs the recent Android 4.4 Kit Kat operating system.

  

Google Nexus 5 has 4.95 inch Full HD screen, powered by 2.3 GHz Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, in addition to 8 megapixel camera and 2300 mAh battery.


Motorola Moto X:

Motorola unveiled its new smartphone which carries the name "Moto X" and running Android operating system, the smartphone has been developed jointly with Google, and it is considered the first smartphone produced by Motorola in collaboration with Google since Google's acquisition of Motorola in 2011.

  

Moto X smartphone powered by 1.7 GHz Motorola X8 processor, which is a modified version of the Snapdragon S4 Pro processor from "Qualcomm" company, it has 4.7-inch 720p Super AMOLED display and 10 megapixel rear camera.

In your opinion, what is the best smartphone in 2013? Is it from this list or another smartphone ?