Best Smartphones and Mobile Phones 2015

What's the world's best cell phone in 2015? Basically, there isn't one. Rather there are various phenomenal mobiles, all of which have their own specific qualities. We've gathered together the best cell telephones available to help you make the right buy to suit your inclination. 

Our rundown incorporates the best telephones for key highlights, for example, esteem for cash, screen quality, battery life and selfies. We've likewise included some shiny new cell phones that are situated to hit the racks in the impending weeks. 

Hit the "Following" bolt above or click here to skim our best cell phone list now – our round-up is part into reasonable telephones, top-of-extent telephones and those that are impending soon. 

Perused on for more guidance on what to consider when purchasing another telephone. 

What amount would it be advisable for you to spend on another cell phone? 

While leads appear to be getting more lavish by the year, laying your hands on a decent cell phone is really less expensive than at any other time in recent memory. By all methods sprinkle the money on a masterpiece like the iPhone 6 or HTC One M9 in the event that you need to, however endure as a primary concern that a few saltines like the 4G-empowered Motorola Moto E (2015) cost not exactly £100 on pay-as-you-go and just somewhat more without sim. 

An alternate case, the LG G3 – is currently accessible for not exactly £300 without sim. It's a large portion of the cost of some other leader telephones. It's still generally as great now as it was a year ago, so its an awesome approach to get top-end highlights at a lower cost. Don't expect you need to spend huge on the most recent and most prominent. 

Related: Best Cheap Mobile Phones 

What size cell phone would it be advisable for you to purchase? 

Substantial screened mobiles are all that much popular nowadays, with even Apple grasping phablet fever. Telephones measuring in at 5.5 inches or more can be considered thusly, and are normally honored with fantastic presentations that are extraordinary for viewing features and playing amusements on. 

Anything somewhere around 4.5 and 5.1 inches is more handy for fingers and pockets, while still useful for skimming the web, gaming and that's just the beginning. 4-inch cell phones, then, are perfect for youngsters and clients who aren't complained about recreations and features. In case you're uncertain what's best for then a 5-inch is a decent size for a great many people. 

Different things to consider 

You should seriously mull over additional highlights to be similar to the sprinkles on top of a cake, yet they're significantly more critical than that. Things like microSD card openings, NFC, unique mark scanners and water-resistance can drastically influence the general client experience of a cell phone. For all the more on these, and further purchasing counsel, read our Mobile Phone Buyer's Guide. 

Best Smartphone in 2015 – 

We've part our best cell phone round-up into three classes: the best passage level and mid-reach telephones that are more reasonable; the best lead telephones that have all the most recent highlights; and forthcoming cell phones that are impending soon and merit holding up for. 

Note: Contract costs from Carphone Warehouse. Without sim costs from the least expensive legitimate retailer. Costs right starting 19/03/2015. 

Best Smartphones 2015 – Entry-level and Mid-range 

You'll see that entrance level and mid-reach telephones are regularly controlled by comparative processors. Spending more won't get you a speedier telephone, yet what it will get you is more pleasant outline, a superior screen r camera and other extra features.

Motorola Moto E 2 2015 

– 4.5-inch phone with 4G and great battery life

Honor Holly 

– 5-inch smartphone with an 8-megapixel camera and HDR

Moto G 2014 

– 5-inch smartphone with excellent battery life and 4G

Asus Zenfone 5 

–5-inch phone with an 8-megapixel camera with HDR

Doro Liberto 820 

– 4.5-inch smartphone that’s perfect for older first time owners

Nokia Lumia 735 

– 4.7-inch mobile that’s great for selfies

Huawei Ascend G7 

– 5.5-inch smartphone with a great camera and class-leading battery life

OnePlus One 

– 5.5-inch mobile that's perfect for enthusiasts

Honor 6 

– 5-inch smartphone that delivers brilliant performance

Nokia Lumia 830

 – 5-inch smartphone with excellent cameras

Sony Xperia Z3 Compact 

– 4.6-inch waterproof mobile with a 20-megapixel camera

Best Smartphones 2015 – The Flagship Phones

These flagship phones are the very best out there. In most cases you pay a little more for the pleasure of owning them, but you won't regret buying any of these great phones.

LG G3 – 5.5-inch smartphone with a stunning QHD screen
HTC Desire EYE –

5.2-inch water-resistant smartphone that’s built for selfies

Huawei Ascend Mate 7 –

6-inch smartphone that’s great for gamers

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 –

5.7-inch smartphone with a lovely QHD screen and a stylus

iPhone 6 –

4.7-inch smartphone with excellent performance and a fingerprint scanner

iPhone 6 Plus –

5.5-inch smartphone with a good screen and excellent battery life
Best Smartphones – Coming Soon in 2015

All these phones are due for release in the coming weeks and months. You may want to wait for these new models to come about before buying, particularly if you want the latest phone available.

HTC One M9 – Due 31 March

5-inch smartphone available from 31 March

Samsung Galaxy S6 – Due 10 April

5.1-inch mobile available from 10 April

Sony Xperia Z4 – Due in August

Expected in autumn

LG G4 – Due in June/July

Expected in the summer

The cell phone world is famously divisive, with Apple-venerating "fanboys" toward one side of the range and Android-fixated "phandroids" on the other. The littler Windows Telephone OS has likewise aggressor supporters who don't yet have an aggregate name, and you ought to overlook every one of them.

We've clarified the fundamental focal points and disservices of each of the three principle portable working frameworks beneath.

Purchase an Android cell phone if…
 you need an extensive variety of alternatives. The Android working framework offers a superior offset of mixed bag and reasonableness than its opponents, because of the sheer differences of Android cell phone producers. Some leader models, in the same way as the LG G3, are accessible for not exactly £300, while you can likewise discover something less garish yet similarly brilliant for not exactly £150.

In Google Play, Android has the biggest determination of applications and recreations as well, however there's a ton of waste blended in with the well done. By and large, its an extraordinary working framework and its absolutely the best choice on the off chance that you'd rather not spend huge cash on a sparkly new cell phone.

Related: Best Android Telephones

Purchase an iPhone if…
… cash is no article. iPhones are the most lavish cell phones you can purchase, and the last-era iPhone 5S will at present set you back near to £500. Then again, plan is dependably on-point, implying that the iPhone is as much device as it is design thing.

Apple's Application Store isn't exactly as populated as Google Play, yet its confinements are more tightly, implying that the general nature of iOS recreations and applications is higher than what you'll discover on Android. It's likewise an incredible alternative in the event that you claim other Mac contraptions, in the same way as MacBooks and iPads, as the hard incorporated administrations make life simple.
Purchase a Windows Telephone cell phone if…
… you esteem consistency in style. Windows Telephone mobiles are right away conspicuous, on account of the utilization of a solitary outline diagram. They're all rakish with clean corners and edges, and the decision of hues you get is significantly more dynamic and energizing than what you'll discover somewhere else. Additionally, there are a great deal of shoddy Windows Telephone models accessible.
Tragically, the Windows Telephone application store is small in correlation to those of Android and iOS. There are a huge number of applications and amusements accessible, yet a few top picks like Snapchat and Citymapper are still nowhere to be seen.

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iPhone 5 Finally, the iPhone we've always wanted

What's different?

Look at our review of last year's iPhone 4S, where we said, "Even without 4G and a giant screen, this phone's smart(ass) voice assistant, Siri, the benefits of iOS 5, and its spectacular camera make it a top choice for anyone ready to upgrade."

Well, guess what? Now it has 4G LTE and...well, maybe not a giant screen, but a larger screen. That's not all, though: the already great camera's been subtly improved, speakerphone and noise-canceling quality has been tweaked, and -- as always -- iOS 6 brings a host of other improvements, including baked-in turn-by-turn navigation, a smarter Siri, and Passbook, a location-aware digital wallet app for storing documents like gift cards, boarding passes, and tickets.

The question is: a full year later, is that enough? For me, it is. I don't want much more in my smartphone. Sure, I'd love a new magical technology to sink my teeth into, but not at the expense of being useful. Right now, I'm not sure what that technology would even be.

Like every year in the iPhone's life cycle, a handful of important new features take the spotlight. This time, 4G, screen size, and redesign step to the top.

You've gotten the full rundown already, most likely, on the various ins and outs of this phone, or if you haven't, I'll tell you about them below in greater detail. Here's what I noticed right away, and what made the biggest impression on me.

First off, you're going to be shocked at how light this phone is. It's the lightest iPhone, even though it's longer and has a bigger screen. After a few days with it, the iPhone 4S will feel as dense as lead.

Secondly, the screen size lengthening is subtle, but, like the Retina Display, you're going to have a hard time going back once you've used it. The extra space adds a lot to document viewing areas above the keyboard, landscape-oriented video playback (larger size and less letterboxing), and home-page organizing (an extra row of icons/folders). Who knows what game developers will dream up, but odds are that extra space on the sides in landscape mode will be handily used by virtual buttons and controls.

Third, this phone will make your home Wi-Fi look bad. Or at least, it did that to mine. Owners of other 4G LTE phones won't be shocked, but iPhone owners making the switch will start noticing that staying on LTE versus Wi-Fi might actually produce faster results...of course, at the expense of expensive data rates. I hopped off my work Wi-Fi and used AT&T LTE in midtown Manhattan to make a FaceTime call to my wife because the former was slowing down. LTE, in my tests, ran anywhere from 10 to 20Mbps, which is up to twice as fast as my wireless router's connection at home.

Using your iPhone 5 as a personal hot spot for a laptop or other device produces some of the same strong results as the third-gen iPad...and it's smaller. Of course, make sure you check on your tethering charges and data usage fees, but my MacBook Air did a fine job running off the LTE data connection at midday.

The look: Thin, metal, light as heck

You know its look, even if the look has been subtly transformed over the years: circular Home button, pocketable rectangle, familiarly sized screen. Can that design be toyed with, transformed a little, changed?

From left: The Lumia 900, iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3.

(Credit: CNET)

The newest iPhone has a wide metal body that stretches above previous iPhones, but is also thinner; still, this isn't a massive phone like the Samsung Galaxy Note or HTC One X. The iPhone 5 rises above the iPhone 4 and 4S, but subtly.

From the front and sides, it looks very similar to the iPhone 4 and 4S. The same rounded metal volume buttons, sleep/wake button on top, and silence switch remain. The headphone jack has moved to the bottom of the phone, just on like the iPod Touch. Some will like it, some won't; it makes standing the iPhone upright and using headphones a virtual impossibility. Actually, the entire bottom is all new: the headphone jack, the larger, redesigned speakers, a different type of perforated grille, and a much tinier Lightning connector port.

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The Gorilla Glass back of the last iPhone is gone, replaced with metal. The two-tone look might seem new, but it's a bit of a reference to the silver-and-black back of the original iPhone. The very top and bottom of the rear is still glass. That anodized aluminum -- which Apple claims is the same as that on its MacBook laptops -- feels exactly the same, and is even shaded the same on the white model. So far, it's held up without scratches. I'd say it'll do about as well as the aluminum finish on your 2008-and-later MacBook. On the black iPhone, the aluminum matches in a slate gray tone. On my white review model, it's MacBook-color silver. That aluminum covers most of the back and also the sides, replacing the iPhone 4 and 4S steel band, and lending to its lighter weight. The front glass sits slightly above the aluminum, which is cut to a mirrored angled edge on the front and back, eliminating sharp corners.

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Why the move away from a glass back? Is it about creating a better, more durable finish, or is it about weight reduction? Apple's proud of its claims of how light the iPhone 5 is, and the new aluminum back is part of that. So is the move to a Nano-SIM card (making SIM swaps once again impossible and requiring a visit to your carrier's store). So is the thinner screen and the smaller dock connector. You get the picture.

Hold an iPhone 4S up to the new iPhone, and I could see the difference in thickness. It's not huge, but it feels even slimmer considering its expanded width and length. What I really noticed is how light it is. I still feel weirded out by it. The iPhone 5's 3.95-ounce weight is the lightest an iPhone's ever been. The iPhone 4S is nearly a full ounce heavier at 4.9 ounces. The iPhone 3G was 4.7 ounces. The original iPhone and iPhone 4 were 4.8 ounces. This is a phase-change in the nearly constant weight of the iPhone -- it's iPhone Air.

Yet, the iPhone 5 doesn't look dramatically different like the iPhone 4 once did. Actually, it seems more like a fusion of the iPhone with the iPad and MacBook design.

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And, of course, there's the new, larger screen. You may not notice it from a distance -- the screen's still not as edge-to-edge on the top and bottom as many Android phones, but extra empty space has been shaved away to accommodate the display. There's a little less room around the Home Button and below the earpiece. The iPhone 5 screen is just as tall as the screen on the Samsung Galaxy S 2, but it's not as wide. That thinner body design gives the iPhone the same hand feel, and what I think is an easier grip. The extra length covers a bit more of your face on phone calls.

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Over the last week with the iPhone 5, I started to forget that the phone was any larger. That seems to be the point. And, the iPhone fit just fine in my pants, too: the extra length has been traded out for less girth, so there's little bulge. And, with that awkward statement having been uttered, I'll move on.

That 4-inch screen: Going longer

The iPhone 5 finally extends the 3.5-inch screen that's been the same size on the iPhone for five years, but it does so by going longer, not wider. A move from the iPhone 4 and 4S' 3.5-inch, 960x640-pixel display to a 4-inch, 1,136x640-pixel display effectively means the same Retina Display (326 pixels per inch), but with extra pixel real estate versus a magnified screen. All the icons and app buttons are the same size, but there's more room for other features, or more space for videos and photos to be displayed.

The iPhone's interface is the same as always: you have app icons greeting you in a grid, and a dock of up to four apps at the bottom. Instead of a grid of four rows of four apps, the longer screen accommodates five rows of four apps. More apps can fit on the home screen, but that's about it as far as user interface innovation. Extra screen height means pop-up notification banners are less intrusive at the top or bottom.

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It's odd at first going longer versus also adding width, and it means a shift away from the iPad's more paperlike 4:3 display ratio. Pages of e-books could feel more stretched. In portrait mode, document text may not seem larger, but you'll see more of it in a list.

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In landscape mode, text actually seems bigger because page width stretches out (so, you can fit more words on a line). The virtual keyboard in landscape mode also ends up a bit more spread out, too, with a little extra space on the sides, which took some getting used to.

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I preferred portrait typing because the keyboard size and width remains the same, while the extra length allows more visible text above the virtual keys.

The screen difference isn't always dramatic, especially compared with some ultra-expansive Android devices: the Samsung Galaxy S3 beats it both on overall screen size (4.8 inches) and pixel resolution (1,280x720). In the iOS 6 Mail app, with one line of preview text, I fit six and a half messages on the screen at the same time on the iPhone 5 versus five and a third on the iPhone 4 and 4S. Other apps toy with the layout more; I fit eight tasks on one screen in the new iOS 6 version of Reminders, versus five on the iPhone 4S with iOS 5.1.1.

Infinity Blade II, before iPhone 5 optimization. Note the black bars.

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Of course, you'll need new apps to take advantage of the longer screen, and at the time I tested the iPhone 5, those weren't available because iOS 6 hadn't formally launched. Older apps run in a letterboxed type of mode at the same size as existing phones, with little black bars on the top and bottom. Apps work perfectly fine this way, especially in portrait mode, but you definitely notice the difference. App-makers will be scrambling to make their apps take advantage of the extra screen space, and my guess is it won't take long at all for most to be iPhone 5 (and iPod Touch) ready.

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I tried iMovie, iPhoto, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, iCards, and all of the iPhone 5's built-in apps (Maps, Reminders, Messages, Photos, Camera, Videos, Weather, Passbook, Notes, Stocks, Newsstand, iTunes, the App Store, Game Center, Contacts, Calculator, Compass, Voice Memos, Mail, Safari, Music, and, of course, Phone), and they all take advantage of the extra space in a variety of useful ways. How others will adopt the extra real estate remains to be seen.

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I'm looking forward to killer apps that will take advantage of the larger screen. So far, I haven't found any that do it in surprising ways. My guess is that games will benefit the most, along with video and photo apps, and, to some degree, reading/news apps.

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Video playback, of course, has a lot more punch because the new 16:9 aspect ratio reduces or removes letterboxing across the board in landscape mode. An HD episode of "Planet Earth" filled the entire screen, while the available viewing space shrank down even more on the iPhone 4S because of letterboxing. YouTube videos looked great. Some movies, of course, like Pixar's "Wall-E," still have letterboxing because they're shot in the superwide CinemaScope aspect ratio (21:9), but they look a lot larger than before -- and you can still zoom in with a tap on the screen.

I think that, much like the Retina Display, you'll miss the iPhone 5's new screen more when you try to go back to an older phone. The new display feels like a natural, so much so that to the casual eye, the iPhone 5 doesn't look entirely different with the screen turned off. The iPhone 4 and 4S screens feel small and hemmed-in by comparison.

iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S video playback of the same 1080p nature video.

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The new iPhone 5's display also has a layer removed from the screen, creating a display that acts as its own capacitive surface. I didn't notice that difference using it; it feels as crisp and fast-responding as before. Apple promises 44 percent extra color saturation on this new display, much like the third-gen iPad's improved color saturation. The difference wasn't as dramatic in a side-by-side playback of a 1080p episode of "Planet Earth," but the iPhone 5 seemed to have a slight edge. It was a little too close to call in game-playing, photo-viewing, and everyday experience with the phone, even held side-by-side with the iPhone 4S. The real difference, again, is the size. Autobrightness adjustments have also been tweaked a little, and I found on average that the iPhone 5 found more-appropriate brightness levels for the room I was in.

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This seems like a good time to discuss thumbs. As in, your thumb size and the iPhone 5. Going back to the iPhone 4S, I realized that the phone's design has been perfectly aligned to allow a comfortable bridge between thumbing the Home button and stretching all the way to the top icon on the iPhone's 3.5-inch display. That's not entirely the case, now. I could, with some positioning, still thumb the Home button and make my way around the taller screen, but the iPhone 5's a little more of a two-hander. It might encourage more people and app developers to switch to landscape orientation, where the extra length and pixel space provide finger room on both sides without cramming the middle.

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Game developers are likely to lean toward the landscape 16:9 orientation, because it more closely matches a standard HDTV's dimensions, and most console games. The extra width allows useful virtual button space, too.

4G LTE: Faster, at last

Last year's iPhone 4S had a subtle network bump to 3.5G (listed as "4G" on the iPhone 4S following iOS 5.1), offering faster data speeds on AT&T. The iPhone 5 finally adopts faster LTE, joining most other smartphones on the market and even the third-gen iPad, with the leap to LTE back in March. (On the top corner of the iPhone, the service indicator reads "LTE" when it's up and running.) However, the presence of LTE doesn't mean a world LTE phone; currently, LTE roaming between carriers overseas is impossible.

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There's also support, depending on the iPhone 5 version you buy, for slower GSM (including EDGE and UMTS/HSPA) and CDMA/EV-DO networks. The iPhone 5's LTE uses a single chip for voice and data, a single radio chip, and a "dynamic antenna" that will switch connections between different networks automatically.

In the United States, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless will carry the iPhone 5. T-Mobile loses out. In Canada, it's Rogers, Bell, Telus, Fido, Virgin, and Koodo. In Asia, the providers will be SoftBank, SmarTone, SingTel, and SK Telecom. For Australia there's Telstra, Optus, and Virgin Mobile, and in Europe it will go to Deutsche Telekom and EE. On carriers without LTE, the iPhone 5 will run on dual-band 3.5G HDPA+. I didn't notice any problems when switching between LTE and 4G, but I tended to find myself stationary in a place that had LTE service or a place that didn't, without much time to test the transition midcall.

There's a catch, though: there are now two versions of iPhone 5 in the U.S., one GSM model and another version for the CDMA carriers. You may not have your dream of a universal LTE phone, but international roaming is possible between 2G and 3G. Also, get ready to accept that Verizon and Sprint iPhone 5s still won't be able to make calls and access data simultaneously, even though many other Verizon/Sprint LTE phones can pull this off. That's because those other phones use a two-antenna system for LTE/voice (voice doesn't run over LTE yet), while the iPhone 5 only uses one plus a dynamic antenna for what Apple says is more connection stability.

Nevertheless, data access via 4G LTE is stunningly fast. This is no gentle upgrade. In my home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I tested both my AT&T iPhone 4S and the AT&T iPhone 5 at the same time. The iPhone 4S averaged a 2.4Mbps download speeds over "4G," whereas the iPhone 5 averaged 20.31Mbps. In comparison, my home wireless Internet via Time Warner averaged 9.02Mbps at the hour I tested (1:30 a.m.).

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The difference can be felt loading Web pages: the mobile version of CNET took 5.3 seconds over LTE, versus 8.5 seconds on the iPhone 4S. A graphically intensive Web site like the desktop version of Huffington Post took 16 seconds to load via LTE, versus 23.3 seconds on the iPhone 4S in 4G.

Those who already use 4G LTE may simply be nodding their heads, but to iPhone owners looking to upgrade, this is major news. For many people, LTE will be faster than their own home broadband.

Of course, that's a dangerous seduction: with fast LTE comes expensive rates and data caps. AT&T also requires a specific plan to even enable FaceTime over cellular. Make sure you don't fall down the rabbit hole of overusing your LTE, because believe me, you're going to want to. I tried setting it up a wireless hot spot for my MacBook Air, and the result was generally excellent.

Outside major cities, it's not quite as exciting if you don't have LTE coverage. Using the AT&T iPhone 5 out in East Setauket, Long Island, data download speed was merely 3.5Mbps because of a lack of AT&T LTE service. Verizon's LTE coverage map is larger, but Sprint's LTE network is small as well. My experience with AT&T and LTE may not necessarily be yours.

Wi-Fi has also gotten a bit of a boost via dual-band 802.11n support over both 2.5GHz and 5GHz. It should help in the event of interference with other Wi-Fi devices, although I never encountered that problem before, even with tons of Wi-Fi gadgets scattered about my apartment.

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The camera

Something on the iPhone 5 has to not be new, right? Well, even the rear iSight camera's been tweaked, but not quite as much as other features. It's still an 8-megapixel camera, but there's a new sapphire-crystal lens, and improved hardware enabling features like dynamic low-lighting adjustment, image stabilization on the 1080p video camera, and the capability to take still shots while shooting video.

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The camera takes excellent pictures, a bit more so now than before. The iPhone 5 takes far clearer low-light pictures, but the result, while more coherent, is grainier and lower resolution than the wonderfully detailed images taken in bright, direct light. I ran around in semi-darkness in my son's room taking pictures of his toys, and found that the iPhone 5 was able to make things out in places where the iPhone 4S couldn't.

Indoor shot with the iPhone 5.

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I settled for some indoor house shots instead to show off how the camera works in dimmer conditions. Of course, you'll probably use flash in those instances, but it can't hurt to have it as a backup.

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