What’s your pick? Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Android

Our smartphones and tablets get better every year, and in many ways, so do the apps and games that run on them. 2015 brought us a brand new music streaming service from Apple that boasts a number of advantage over its rivals, a terrific email client from Microsoft, and a video streaming app from Twitter that has become a huge success. We’ve also had our first Fallout game for mobile, and it’s a cracker!

These are our picks for the best Android apps and games of 2015.

This is the first Note that isn’t all about specs. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Android

After kicking off the “phablet” trend in 2011, the Galaxy Note series has become the bigger and better smartphone in Samsung’s lineup every year — and usually the best phablet on the market. But with this year’s Note 5, a lot has changed.

Samsung has snubbed a number of popular features to take a gamble on the new design language it first introduced with the Galaxy S6 earlier this year. It makes the Note 5 far prettier than its predecessors, but does it make for a better handset overall?

You bet your S Pen it does!

The new OnePlus 2 is faster and prettier than its predecessor. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

The latest “flagship killer” from Chinese startup OnePlus is getting even more attention that its predecessor. And rightly so: The OnePlus 2 is better looking and more advanced than the OnePlus One, with a faster Snapdragon 810 processor, up to twice as much RAM, and a new 13-megapixel camera sensor.

The device also comes with OnePlus’ latest OxygenOS software pre-installed, which offers a pure Android experience with some added extras.

All these things come in a pretty package that costs just $329 with 16GB of storage and 3GB of RAM. (You can bump up to 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM for $389.) But is this a great smartphone that’s worth waiting for?

Fight! Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Android

With Apple Watch still sold out and Google reportedly gearing up to deliver Android Wear support for iPhone at Google I/O next week, it’s time for two of the hottest wearable platforms to face off.

Apple Watch is selling 30,000 units every day in the U.S., according to the latest reports, which makes it significantly hotter than any of the Android Wear watches we’ve seen so far. But is it really worth the hype?

Find out what we think in this week’s Friday Night Fight with Cult of Android versus Cult of Mac!

Spigen cases have long delivered great protection at affordable prices, and the good-looking Neo Hybrid for the Nexus 5 is no different. Priced at just $35, it’s made from a unique combination of polyurethane and polycarbonate plastic and available in a variety of colors.

I’ve been testing a Neo Hybrid, kindly provided by MobileFun, for almost a month now — and I’ve been impressed by both its design and its build quality. Could this be your ideal case for the Nexus 5?