The phone world may have been shy of ground-breaking innovations in 2025, but that doesn't mean there weren't positive steps forward for a device that most of us keep close at hand throughout the day. And for me, the best trend this year has been a stepped-up focus on making your phone more of a productivity tool.
To be sure, there's always been an effort on the part of phone makers to tout their devices as productivity boosters — something you can use to handle your business whether you're waiting in line, commuting somewhere or just hanging out at a cafe. But often, that aspect of a phone's features seems to play second fiddle to how the phone captures photos or handles games.
