In Pictures: Top 10 tech gadgets of 2012

We’re still a few months away from 2013, but most of the hot gadgets have been released, or will be by November, in time for the holiday gift-buying season.

iPhone 5

Release date: September 21

An evolution, not a revolution, is how the latest iPhone has been described. The iPhone 5 is thinner than the iPhone 4S, and has a longer screen, which adds an additional row of app icons. What raised a stink in the iPhone user community is the introduction of Apple’s new proprietary data interface -- the Lightning connector. In what can be described as a “first world problem,” many tech news pundits lamented that the iPhone 5 was incompatible with their iPhone external devices and accessories that used the old interface.

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