CES 2012: The top 7 phones at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show

It's all about Windows Phone and Android at this year's eventWhereas last year's Consumer Electronics Show was all about Android, the surprise mindshare leader at CES 2012 is Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system.

After completely reinventing the artist formerly known as Windows Mobile in late 2010, the company fleshed out and polished up the OS with the current Windows Phone 7.5 iteration. Thanks to a $1 billion partnership with Finnish giant Nokia early last year, as well as strong continued partnerships with handset makers HTC and Samsung, the Windows Phone ecosystem is set to finally come into its own in 2012.

Despite not dominating the show floor to the extent it did last year, Google's Android mobile operating system nevertheless managed a strong showing at CES 2012. Motorola announced a brace of powerful smartphones with the Droid Razr Maxx and the Droid 4, LG brought out the 4G LTESpectrum handset for Verizon, and Samsung introduced a unique entrant to that middle ground between phone and tablet with the 5.3" Galaxy Note on AT&T. Samsung also saw its flagship Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone, the Galaxy Nexus, leave Verizon exclusivity for Sprint.

Here's our list of of the top 7 phones at CES 2012:

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Android smokes Windows Phone in Microsoft challenge

STRIVING MOBILE PHONE PLAYER Microsoft has been accused of being a "poor loser" for failing to cough up a prize when an Android handset beat one of its Windows Phones in a challenge.

The controversy began yesterday in a Santa Clara Microsoft Store that was hosting one of the software company's "Smoked by Windows Phone" challenges. At these events anyone who finishes a given task faster using a handset other than a Windows Phone stands to win a $1,000 HP laptop, assuming they agree to the small print of the competition's terms and conditions.

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