Cheap or powerful - there's an Android phone for you!

Since Android was launched, it's turned up in pretty much every market segment imaginable, from entry-level to super-powered smartphones. Let's take a look at the best Android smartphones currently available in each niche.

Sony Ericsson X10 Mini

Let's begin by taking a look at a phone for customers who need a smartphone, but do not want a big smartphone or a phone that costs the earth: the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini. As you can tell from the phone's name, the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini is a smaller-sized incarnation of the full-sized X10. They have taken what was good about the X10, and squeezed those features down to fit into a brand new body which makes the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini, even as a smartphone, incredibly little. Therefore, for people who want a smartphone that is tiny enough to squeeze into the tightest handbags, the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini is the handset to buy.

HTC Wildfire

Android is trying to take over the mid-range, also, and it can now be found the beautiful HTC Wildfire. This handset has got all of the exciting stuff that made its older predecessor (the HTC Desire) good, but places it all in a more compact, more affordable body, which remains both sleek and sexy. Needless to say, being put in the new mid-range shell means that the HTC Wildfire hasn't got the 1GHz processor of the Desire, but it still performs beautifully. It also comes with the Sense UI, installed on top of Android in the HTC Wildfire, yet again like its big predecessor. Based around that reasoning, if you want a phone which is close to 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 shell, and then there is the HTC Wildfire, the mid-range equivalent of the HTC Desire. And finally you've got the the powerhouse, the Samsung Galaxy S, which has the most impressive display of any phone on this list. Coming in at a whopping 4 inches, it is simply vast, and the WVGA, 800x480 resolution means that it is genuinely easy to use the touch elements onscreen. Sitting atop the underlying operating system, the front end that you interact with built around Samsung's TouchWiz UI. It is truly simple to use, and while it isn't as sublime (but then, what is?) as HTC's Sense UI, it (as well as the unbelievably fast 1GHz Hummingbird CPU) is the big reason why the Samsung Galaxy S is such a wonderful phone to live with, day to day. But then, it isn't all about raw power, a smartphone needs to have captivating features and the Samsung Galaxy S also has a wealth of cool features, from the 5 megapixel camera, through GPS, to lightning quick HSDPA internet access (with Google's awesome WebKit browser), which is why so many people believe this to be one of the coolest phones ever made.