No matter your budget, there's an Android phone for you

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As Android has grown, Google's mobile OS has gone on to appear in pretty much every market sector one could imagine, including entry-level to high-end phones. Let's have a look at the coolest Android phones currently available in each price rage.

Sony Ericsson X10 Mini

Let us begin with a handset for people who would like a smartphone, but who hate the idea of 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 phone's name, the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini is a cut-down iteration of the original X10. The manufacturer has taken the good stuff the X10, and compressed it into a brand new shell which makes the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini, even as a smartphone, ludicrously tiny. Thus, for users who want a smartphone that is 'weeny' enough to fit in the most restricted handbags, the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini is the perfect choice.

HTC Wildfire

Android is trying to take over the mid-range, too, and its new home is the exquisite HTC Wildfire. It has all the good stuff that made its more powerful sibling (the HTC Desire) good, but places it all in a smaller, more affordable frame, which remains both sleek and gorgeous. Needless to say, being put in that mid-range body means that the HTC Wildfire has not got the 1GHz Snapdragon chip of the Desire, but it is still fast and responsive. It also has the Sense UI, built into the HTC Wildfire, yet again similar to its older predecessor. Based on those reasons, if you need a handset which isn't far off the Desire when it comes to specs, but that costs a lot less, then the HTC Wildfire is absolutely perfect.

Samsung Galaxy S

In conclusion, then, there is the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini with its tiny frame, and then you've got the HTC Wildfire, the mid-range successor to the HTC Desire. And finally you've got the high-end superphone, the Samsung Galaxy S, which has also got the most impressive screen on this list. Measuring a huge 4 inches, it is quite frankly immense, and the WVGA, 800x480 resolution makes it so very easy to use things such as scrollbars in menus. On top of the underlying OS, the interface is built around Samsung's TouchWiz UI. It is wonderfully easy to use, and whilst 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 use. Of course, it isn't all about raw number-crunching, a phone has to have compelling features and the Samsung Galaxy S has got a bevy of cool functionalities, from the 5MP camera, through GPS, to super speedy HSDPA web access (and, of course, Google's brilliant WebKit browser), which is why so many users say that this is one of the coolest smartphones ever made.

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