Android OS - a phone for every pocket - Technology

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Since the launch of Android, Google's mobile OS has gone on to appear in more or less every market niche one could imagine, including 'beginner' all the way up to high-spec superphones. Let's take a look at the best Android smartphones that you can currently buy in each niche.

Sony Ericsson X10 Mini

We start by taking a look at a mobile for users who need a smartphone, but do not want a big phone or a phone that costs a lot to buy: the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini. As you should be able to guess from the handset's name, the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini is a smaller-sized version of the original X10. Sony Ericsson have taken all the good stuff from the X10, and squeezed it down into a new shell which makes the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini, considering it is a smartphone, unbelievably little. Thus, for people who need a smartphone that's little enough to squeeze into the smallest pockets, the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini is the one to choose.

HTC Wildfire

Android is on a mission to dominate the mid-range, too, and its new home is the beautiful HTC Wildfire. It comes with the same good bits that made its larger brother (the HTC Desire) brilliant, but places all those good bits in a more compact, more affordable shell, that remains both slick and gorgeous. Needless to say, being put in the new mid-range body means that the HTC Wildfire has not got the 1GHz processor of the Desire, but it still performs beautifully. It also has the Sense UI, built into the HTC Wildfire, yet again similar to its larger brother. Based around those reasons, if you need a smartphone which is close to the Desire when it comes to specs, but that is considerably cheaper, then the HTC Wildfire is the right choice.

Samsung Galaxy S

In conclusion, then, there's the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini with its super-small frame, and then there's the HTC Wildfire, the mid-range equivalent of the HTC Desire. And finally you've got the the powerhouse, the Samsung Galaxy S, which also has the most impressive screen of any of the phones on this list. Measuring a massive 4 inches, it is just vast, and the WVGA, 800x480 resolution makes it genuinely easy to use the touch elements onscreen. Sitting atop the underlying OS, the interface is built around Samsung's TouchWiz UI. It is beautifully intuitive, and while it isn't as sublime (but then, what is?) as HTC's Sense UI, it ( in addition to the unbelievably fast 1GHz Hummingbird processor) is the main reason why the Samsung Galaxy S is such a pleasure to use. Of course, it's never been solely about raw number-crunching, a phone has to have compelling features and the Samsung Galaxy S also has a bevy of cool functionalities, from the 5 megapixel camera, through GPS, to inc redibly quick HSDPA web access ( and, of course, Google's excellent WebKit browser), which is why many users say that the Galaxy S is one of the best mobile phones they've ever seen.

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