There's one key way in which Android is massively altered from its Apple-branded smartphone antagonism - the amount of phones out there active Google's hot adaptable OS.
We're now seeing the latest beachcomber of phones agitation up on Android Jelly Bean, while Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich gets swept beneath the carpet.
Samsung makes endless of them. Sony's cut the Ericsson ties but still is cranking out the Google-branded handsets. Then you've got Android-powered phones from Acer, LG, Huawei, ZTE and abounding others, and while HTC has accomplished the convenance of absolution added phones than centipedes accept shoes (they do abrasion them, you know) it's still one of the added arresting Android manufacturers
10. Sony Xperia T
his is James Bond's buzz apparently. Well, he was apparent application it in Skyfall, so that's acceptable abundant for us. It packs some lower specs than others on this list, but combines them in an adorable unit.
The Xperia T active aback to the architecture accent of the Xperia Arc, acceptation it's got a admirable arced aback that sits calmly in the hand, and the ample and all-embracing awning provides abundant video playback acknowledgment to the Bravia Engine.
Sony has produced addition absorbing smartphone that offers the functionality and achievement we're searching for in a top-level handset.
That getting said, if compared with the beforehand Sony Xperia S, or some of the added Android handsets, the aberration is negligible - with the Xperia Z far, far superior.
9.HTC One X+
The better and a lot of arrogant of HTC's 2012 Android models, the One X accustomed powered by a quad-core Tegra 3 chipset for the ultimate in carriageable kudos.
And now HTC has taken that design, befuddled out the $.25 that don't plan and had addition go... while abacus a "+" on the end to appearance it's all new and shiny. Plus some red flashes for effect.
It's addressed accumulator apropos with a addition to 64GB, bigger the web browser ability and the consistently reliable HTC keyboard – although the array is still a bit of a abscessed point, admitting it getting all "efficient-ized."
The architecture may not be any different, but we like that as the One X+ was already a handsome searching handset, with the unibody architecture exuding a exceptional air of superiority.
The beefed up processor forth with the Android 4.1 and Sense 4+ UI updates makes the One X+ an even slicker, smoother and added able chump than its earlier brother.
8.LG Optimos 4X HD
LG's attack at burglary some of the high-end bazaar is a rather absorbing monster of a phone, accumulation a quad-core processor with a ample 4.7-inch affectation that runs at a 1280 x 720 resolution.
The aftereffect is a big yet abbreviate buzz that ticks all the boxes. It's fast, it's abundant for web use and the keyboard's a amusement to use on the beyond screen, and although there are no angle out concrete or software elements to accomplish it a complete accept to have, the LG Optimus 4X HD is a slick, able buzz that does aggregate well.
However, it pales in allegory to the Google Nexus 4 - although we do like the bury LG chucks on top of its phones to adumbrate the Android OS below, which is the capital acumen you'll buy this phone.
7.Samsung Galaxy S3
With the Samsung Galaxy S4 now launched, the S3 has predictably collapsed down the rankings acknowledgment to there getting a bigger buzz to recommend, but don't anguish it's still a amazing phone.
There's so abounding additional credibility on the S3 we're not even traveling to try and account them all here, but things to buck in apperception are its accomplished array life, processor acceleration and multimedia capabilities.
Would we acclaim you buy one if you're ache for a atom of Samsung? Yes, but alone if the S4 is out of your amount range, as it's a abundant bigger adaptation of the S3.
The architecture didn't affect us as abundant as if we aboriginal laid eyes on the S2, but that's the alone big affair we could acquisition - and seeing as it's awash by the millions it proves the S3 is still a acid bend smartphone.
6.HTC One S
The HTC One S is every bit as able as the beyond One X, alone actuality you get to adore the ability of Qualcomm's S4 processor.
It can feel even faster in use than the One X, additional the added abundantly ample affectation after-effects in a buzz that's a little added pocketable and easier to use with just the one hand.
It's now agitation not alone Android Jelly Bean but aswell an adapted adaptation of the HTC Sense overlay, bringing added ability to areas such as the camera.
The camera and imaging accoutrement are about identical to those begin on the One X+ and the brownish anatomy (with "micro-arc oxidisation") feels air-conditioned in the hand. It feels like a little rocket.
5. Samsung Galaxy Note2
Samsung took awning admeasurement to a antic new akin with the Galaxy Note, alms us a huge 5.3-inch affectation that's by far the better of any smartphone out there today.
Now that ambush has been taken to the next level, by alms a 5.5-inch awning aural the aforementioned footprint. The S Pen Stylus has been adapted to cover added than 1,000 burden acuteness levels, and the awning resolution is impressively boosted, too.
As with abounding of Samsung's Android phones, the Note II is a solid performer, and aswell came complete with Android Jelly Bean out of the box, forth with updates to the Touchwiz overlay.
The Super AMOLED HD Plus resolution, accumulated with a added automatic S Pen and greater ambit of software, shows we writers don't consistently apperceive what we're talking about: Samsung has fabricated a success of a class a lot of of us had accounting off.
4.Google Nexus 4
Google and LG accept formed calm to accompany to bazaar a absurd offering, one that even Apple admirers can't advice but coo over if they apprehend the price.
The actuality of the amount is that this is a handset with apple chic specs – yet it's at a amount you'd apprehend to get a account buzz for. Sure, there are a few things that could accept been done better, but the positives absolutely outweigh the negatives.
The Nexus 4 is beautifully advised with a beauteous affectation and agitation the latest adaptation of Android. It has added connectivity than a blast barter and even excels in the simple amount of authoritative calls.
We're not admirers of the lower anamnesis allowance, and it's not got the best awning on the market, and there will be a few that see banal Android 4.2 as too stripped-down to accede it a accurate buzz OS choice, but that doesn't beggarly it's not a absurd handset - it would accept competed even after the crazily low amount tag.
3.Sony Xperia Z
Sony's new handset is a lot of absolutely the a lot of absorbing the abutting has launched either in its accepted guise or as Sony Ericsson.
You can see the Sony access throughout the handset as it oozes superior and body from the ample screen, which fits abutting to the edges of the bezel, to the able camera that allows you to breeze some absolutely exceptional photos after defective to dabble about with the settings.
And it's baptize and dust aggressive too, which makes it accomplished for accepted activity business, additional it's packing a microSD agenda aperture in an impossibly attenuate chassis, for which we acclaim the buzz even higher.
Add to that the Bravia Engine 2, which can flush accepted analogue movies and accompany your agreeable to life, and you've got a absolute matchwinning buzz in your hands.
2.Samsung Galaxy S4
Hold the phone, what's appear here? Samsung may accept been top dog in 2012, but this year the baking stylings of the HTC One accept accurate too able adjoin a buzz that's a slightly-better-version of its predecessor.
Ok so it's alone absolutely looks that the S4 is too similar, and acutely that was one of the better issues a lot of users had with the S3. It's not the better smartphone crime, but that accompanying with some added accessory niggles agency it misses out on getting amount one.
There's a lot to adulation with the Samsung Galaxy S4 with its cool aciculate screen, able camera, abiding array and aqueous user interface - it's got aggregate you could anytime wish in a smartphone.
It may be a little added cher than some of its absolute rivals, but thankfully it's still cheaper than the iPhone. If alone it was fabricated out of something a little added premium..
1. HTC One
Well, here's something of a shock if you're a Samsung fan – afterwards about two years of dominance, the Korean cast has collapsed from the top spot.
It's annihilation to do with the superior of the S4 – it's still an outstanding buzz – but added the actuality HTC has managed to accompany out a smartphone that's aces of any user's application with a absolute aluminium chassis, Full HD awning and simplified adaptation of Sense 5.0 sitting on top of Android Jelly Bean.
The new innovations are aswell affably added than just business gimmicks; Zoe functionality allows the conception of adorable video highlight reels, and the Ultrapixel camera agency you've got a abundant added ambit of shots accessible acknowledgment to getting beauteous in low light.
Sony has produced addition absorbing smartphone that offers the functionality and achievement we're searching for in a top-level handset.
That getting said, if compared with the beforehand Sony Xperia S, or some of the added Android handsets, the aberration is negligible - with the Xperia Z far, far superior.
9.HTC One X+
The better and a lot of arrogant of HTC's 2012 Android models, the One X accustomed powered by a quad-core Tegra 3 chipset for the ultimate in carriageable kudos.
And now HTC has taken that design, befuddled out the $.25 that don't plan and had addition go... while abacus a "+" on the end to appearance it's all new and shiny. Plus some red flashes for effect.
It's addressed accumulator apropos with a addition to 64GB, bigger the web browser ability and the consistently reliable HTC keyboard – although the array is still a bit of a abscessed point, admitting it getting all "efficient-ized."
The architecture may not be any different, but we like that as the One X+ was already a handsome searching handset, with the unibody architecture exuding a exceptional air of superiority.
The beefed up processor forth with the Android 4.1 and Sense 4+ UI updates makes the One X+ an even slicker, smoother and added able chump than its earlier brother.
8.LG Optimos 4X HD
LG's attack at burglary some of the high-end bazaar is a rather absorbing monster of a phone, accumulation a quad-core processor with a ample 4.7-inch affectation that runs at a 1280 x 720 resolution.
The aftereffect is a big yet abbreviate buzz that ticks all the boxes. It's fast, it's abundant for web use and the keyboard's a amusement to use on the beyond screen, and although there are no angle out concrete or software elements to accomplish it a complete accept to have, the LG Optimus 4X HD is a slick, able buzz that does aggregate well.
However, it pales in allegory to the Google Nexus 4 - although we do like the bury LG chucks on top of its phones to adumbrate the Android OS below, which is the capital acumen you'll buy this phone.
7.Samsung Galaxy S3
With the Samsung Galaxy S4 now launched, the S3 has predictably collapsed down the rankings acknowledgment to there getting a bigger buzz to recommend, but don't anguish it's still a amazing phone.
There's so abounding additional credibility on the S3 we're not even traveling to try and account them all here, but things to buck in apperception are its accomplished array life, processor acceleration and multimedia capabilities.
Would we acclaim you buy one if you're ache for a atom of Samsung? Yes, but alone if the S4 is out of your amount range, as it's a abundant bigger adaptation of the S3.
The architecture didn't affect us as abundant as if we aboriginal laid eyes on the S2, but that's the alone big affair we could acquisition - and seeing as it's awash by the millions it proves the S3 is still a acid bend smartphone.
6.HTC One S
The HTC One S is every bit as able as the beyond One X, alone actuality you get to adore the ability of Qualcomm's S4 processor.
It can feel even faster in use than the One X, additional the added abundantly ample affectation after-effects in a buzz that's a little added pocketable and easier to use with just the one hand.
It's now agitation not alone Android Jelly Bean but aswell an adapted adaptation of the HTC Sense overlay, bringing added ability to areas such as the camera.
The camera and imaging accoutrement are about identical to those begin on the One X+ and the brownish anatomy (with "micro-arc oxidisation") feels air-conditioned in the hand. It feels like a little rocket.
5. Samsung Galaxy Note2
Samsung took awning admeasurement to a antic new akin with the Galaxy Note, alms us a huge 5.3-inch affectation that's by far the better of any smartphone out there today.
Now that ambush has been taken to the next level, by alms a 5.5-inch awning aural the aforementioned footprint. The S Pen Stylus has been adapted to cover added than 1,000 burden acuteness levels, and the awning resolution is impressively boosted, too.
As with abounding of Samsung's Android phones, the Note II is a solid performer, and aswell came complete with Android Jelly Bean out of the box, forth with updates to the Touchwiz overlay.
The Super AMOLED HD Plus resolution, accumulated with a added automatic S Pen and greater ambit of software, shows we writers don't consistently apperceive what we're talking about: Samsung has fabricated a success of a class a lot of of us had accounting off.
4.Google Nexus 4
Google and LG accept formed calm to accompany to bazaar a absurd offering, one that even Apple admirers can't advice but coo over if they apprehend the price.
The actuality of the amount is that this is a handset with apple chic specs – yet it's at a amount you'd apprehend to get a account buzz for. Sure, there are a few things that could accept been done better, but the positives absolutely outweigh the negatives.
The Nexus 4 is beautifully advised with a beauteous affectation and agitation the latest adaptation of Android. It has added connectivity than a blast barter and even excels in the simple amount of authoritative calls.
We're not admirers of the lower anamnesis allowance, and it's not got the best awning on the market, and there will be a few that see banal Android 4.2 as too stripped-down to accede it a accurate buzz OS choice, but that doesn't beggarly it's not a absurd handset - it would accept competed even after the crazily low amount tag.
3.Sony Xperia Z
Sony's new handset is a lot of absolutely the a lot of absorbing the abutting has launched either in its accepted guise or as Sony Ericsson.
You can see the Sony access throughout the handset as it oozes superior and body from the ample screen, which fits abutting to the edges of the bezel, to the able camera that allows you to breeze some absolutely exceptional photos after defective to dabble about with the settings.
And it's baptize and dust aggressive too, which makes it accomplished for accepted activity business, additional it's packing a microSD agenda aperture in an impossibly attenuate chassis, for which we acclaim the buzz even higher.
Add to that the Bravia Engine 2, which can flush accepted analogue movies and accompany your agreeable to life, and you've got a absolute matchwinning buzz in your hands.
2.Samsung Galaxy S4
Hold the phone, what's appear here? Samsung may accept been top dog in 2012, but this year the baking stylings of the HTC One accept accurate too able adjoin a buzz that's a slightly-better-version of its predecessor.
Ok so it's alone absolutely looks that the S4 is too similar, and acutely that was one of the better issues a lot of users had with the S3. It's not the better smartphone crime, but that accompanying with some added accessory niggles agency it misses out on getting amount one.
There's a lot to adulation with the Samsung Galaxy S4 with its cool aciculate screen, able camera, abiding array and aqueous user interface - it's got aggregate you could anytime wish in a smartphone.
It may be a little added cher than some of its absolute rivals, but thankfully it's still cheaper than the iPhone. If alone it was fabricated out of something a little added premium..
1. HTC One
Well, here's something of a shock if you're a Samsung fan – afterwards about two years of dominance, the Korean cast has collapsed from the top spot.
It's annihilation to do with the superior of the S4 – it's still an outstanding buzz – but added the actuality HTC has managed to accompany out a smartphone that's aces of any user's application with a absolute aluminium chassis, Full HD awning and simplified adaptation of Sense 5.0 sitting on top of Android Jelly Bean.
The new innovations are aswell affably added than just business gimmicks; Zoe functionality allows the conception of adorable video highlight reels, and the Ultrapixel camera agency you've got a abundant added ambit of shots accessible acknowledgment to getting beauteous in low light.
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