Several innovative devices were released on the market so far: Nokia 920, iPhone 5 and Samsung S3. I am pretty sure that most of the user of this forum won't vote for any of them. Unfortunately 2012 didn't bring any Linux devices on the mass market. (Although Android is with a Linux kernel I prefer not to categorize it as a Linux distribution)

I hope to see commercial Tizen and Jolla's MeeGo devices next year. BB10 is also an OS that attracts my attention and I expect RIM to announce interesting BlackBerry devices soon.