Report: Top 5 Smartphone Splurges of 2012

Check out the year's most outrageous mobile purchases made through PayPal. (Spoiler alert: someone bought a bulldozer.)
By Flash Steinbeiser | Dec 17, 2012

Sure, more and more shoppers are using their smartphones to purchase goods, but who knew someone would use a phone to buy a $48,000 bulldozer?

CNNMoney got their hands on PayPal's top mobile purchases of 2012 and it's a bit of a head-scratcher. 

Here are the top five smartphone splurges of the year: 

Coupled with this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday reports—in which mobile shopping saw a significant increase—mobile commerce seems to have found its stride.

And according to another CNNMoney report, online Black Friday sales in 2012 actually outpaced in-store sales, with online traffic spiking by 21% and foot traffic dipping by 2%.