Best Android Phones: Top 5

Everyone is buzzing about Android! Consumers and manufacturers love it. They love it so much, in fact, that they are producing dozens and dozens of Android-powered phones, each with its own different flavor of the Android OS. What's a poor consumer to do, faced with this impossible array of choices? Thankfully, we've gone out and selected the best Android phones out there for you, so you can make an informed decision on which Android phone you'd like to buy next!

1. Samsung Nexus S
The Nexus One, Google's first foray into the smartphone arena, was an extremely impressive phone; Google continues this tradition, albeit with a different manufacturer, in the Samsung Nexus S. The Nexus S boasts a lightning-fast 1GHz processor which absolutely blows through apps; unless an app is extraordinarily poorly designed, you won't experience anything remotely like lag on this phone. The Super AMOLED display is also beautiful, and one of the nicest availab le on any Android phone to date.

Another plus for this phone is the OS: It is currently one of the few phones to feature Gingerbread. While other carriers have been pushing Gingerbread out now, the Nexus S was the first with it and it still features prominently as one of the phone's selling points: You get an unadulterated, unmodified, bloatware-free installation of Android as compared to many of the other phones being sold through other providers.

One minor detraction is the lack of an SD card slot: the phone is fixed at 16GB, which will already be too small for many power users.

A final note about the Nexus S is its 4G connectivity; though the first version of the phone shipped without 4G connectivity, Samsung and Google heard the reviews and have since shipped an updated model of the Nexus S complete with 4G connectivity. The 4G is pleasantly quick and, combined with the rest of the features of this phone, ensures that the Nexus S will st ay on the top of this list for a long time (at least until Google's next unlocked, carrier-free phone makes its debut!)

2. HTC Thunderbolt / HTC Inspire
(NOTE: The Thunderbolt and Inspire are the same phones, but the Thunderbolt is Verizon-ready and the Inspire is AT&T-ready, thus the reason they are being reviewed as the same phone. I'll refer to it as the Thunderbolt in the review, since that's a cooler name)
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