Android phones - cheap or powerful, there's a phone for you

As Android has grown, Google's mobile OS has turned up in more or less every market sector imaginable, from entry-level all the way up to super-powered smartphones. Let's have a look at the coolest Android phones on the market in each price rage.

Sony Ericsson X10 Mini

Let's start by looking at a phone for users who want a smartphone, but hate the idea of a big mobile or an expensive phone: the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini. As you can tell from the name, the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini is a shrunken incarnation of the full-sized X10. Sony Ericsson have taken what was good about the X10, and compressed it down into a brand new frame designed to make the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini, especially since it is a smartphone, REALLY small. Thus, for users who want to get a smartphone that is little enough to fit in the smallest handbags, the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini is the handset to buy.

HTC Wildfire

Android is on a mission to dominate the mid-range, also, and its new home is the exquisite HTC Wildfire. It has the same exciting bits which made its big sibling (the HTC Desire) good, but places all that good stuff in a smaller, less expensive body, that manages to remain both sleek and sexy. Needless to say, having been put in that mid-range body means that the HTC Wildfire hasn't got the 1GHz Snapdragon chip of the Desire, but its own chip performs admirably. You also get the Sense UI, installed on top of Android in the HTC Wildfire, yet again like its big sibling. Based around that reasoning, if you would like a handset which isn't far off the Desire when it comes to specs, but which is considerably cheaper, then the HTC Wildfire is the phone for you.

Samsung Galaxy S

In conclusion, then, you've got the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini which has a super-small body, and then there's the HTC Wildfire, the mid-range equivalent of the HTC Desire. And finally you've got the big top-ender, the Samsung Galaxy S, which also has the most impressive screen of any of the phones on this list. Measuring a whopping 4 inches, it is just gargantuan, and the WVGA, 800x480 resolution makes it genuinely easy to use the touch elements onscreen. On top of the operating system, the front end that you interact with built around Samsung's TouchWiz UI. It is truly easy to use, and although it is definitely not as powerful as HTC's Sense UI, it ( in addition to the unbelievably fast 1GHz Hummingbird chipset) is the main reason why the Samsung Galaxy S is such a pleasure to use. However, it's not just about raw power, a mobile has to have captivating features and the Samsung Galaxy S has got a bevy of cool functionalities, from the 5 megapixel camera, and GPS, to lightning fast HSDPA data access (with Google's excellent WebKit browser), which is why many people say that the Galaxy S is one of the greatest mobile phones they've ever seen.