It all started on a Sunday afternoon when I sat down to write an article about the most powerful android smartphone in the world and I didn’t know how I would select that one Android Phone that rules them all. As a technology writer, if I am fazed by the amount of information and choices available to me if I want to buy a good Android Phone I imagined the difficulties that a customer/consumer faces when he wants to select the best phone that his money can buy. Sometimes, the customers are downright pissed off(and should be) when they buy a smartphone only to find that it really doesn’t suit them in which case they either have the option of selling it for a loss and shelling out more money on another device or they are stuck with the device for the next two years which in tech-speak is an eternity.
I am quite miffed by the fact that Telcos don’t have an arrangement where in the customer is able to pay a certain amount of money upfront and the rest is adjusted into a monthly plan for just ONE year – but that’s a battle we’ll fight another day.
For the purposes of this analysis, I’ve lined up 8 of the best and most powerful Android Smartphones available in the market for purchase. The prices that I’ve used for comparison are all from Mobicity, as they are quite well known in Australia and thankfully they don’t charge the full retail prices. Also I don’t endorsethem or anything, and it is entirely your will and wish where you want to purchase your smartphones. The smartphones we will consider for this analysis:
- LG Optimus 2X
- LG Optimus 3D
- Motorola Atrix
- Motorola Droid
- MI-One Xiaomi
- HTC Sensation
- HTC EVO 3D
- Samsung Galaxy SII
So I went about getting the technical specifications and mainly focussed on some 16 core areas which in my opinion are the items a buyer must consider before buying a smartphone. Those areas were:
1. Dimensions
2. Weight
3. Display
4. Screen Resolution
5. Pixel Density
6. Battery
7. Flavour/Skin
8. Android Version
9. CPU
10. Standby Time
11. Talk Time
12. RAM
13. Camera
14. Video Capture
15. Connectivity
16. Networks
I assigned a 5 point value to each of the above mentioned feature and created graphical representations of each Smartphone that was taken into consideration. Please note that the specs are figures as claimed by the manufacturer and I neither had time nor the facility to test them at a lab. Standby times and talktime figures are GSM usage as per local Australian conditions. If you ask nicely, I will also send you the master excel sheet which was used to crunch numbers and assign ratings. The ratings are purely my way of logically assigning values that I think are right so please consider this analysis with a pinch of salt.
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