Here Are Top 10 Android Smartphones You Should Use/Know

I’ll introduce this top 10 Android Smartphones phones in reverse order.

10. Sony Xperia Z5 Compact

Sony has taken its time to iterate on its internals, in terms of chipsets, components, and waterproofing strategy over the last three years, but it got there in the end. There’s a strong chassis, no flaps over headphone jack or microUSB ports, sculpted corners, a ‘genius’ fingerprint scanner in the side power button, and a 23MP camera that at last works pretty well and with some intelligence.

Most of all, Sony is almost unique (Apple joined it recently with the iPhone SE) in offering something powerful in a small form factor – the Compact is diminutive by today’s standards, with only a 4.6” screen. And you lose some of that to virtual controls. In fact, it’s all slightly fiddly, but it would be churlish to complain because at least Sony’s giving us the form factor option. Yet with a full Snapdragon 810 chipset – and 2GB of RAM and a 720p screen are absolutely fine at this size. In fact, it helps keep battery life great – with Sony’s OS tweaks on board too, you can last two full days per charge, all without making an unsightly bulge in your pocket.

9. Google Nexus 5X

It’s a fair cop, I wanted to put in the Nexus 6 in the top 10. For me, it even outdoes the newer siblings, the 5X here and the 6P (see below) in terms of sheer functionality. But there’s a flaw in this, in that Google has stopped selling it, leaving just resellers clearing stock and the second hand market. Gah. But the idea of pure Google, stock Android, bang up to date in terms of security patches, provisioned for previews of Android 7, persists and is incredibly appealing. In which case, what are Google selling?

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Well, in the mid-range, in terms of pricing, there’s the Nexus 5X, which I described somewhat unfairly in my review as ‘a lacklustre reference design’. You see, the Nexus 5X, like most Nexus phones, has been getting better and better with regular system updates, plus the price has been coming down. Put the two together and if someone has a mid-range budget and if they value security and future-proofing then the Nexus 5X is still a very good choice.

True the speaker is disappointing, and the bezels could be smaller, but hey, the 5X is still an awful lot of pure Android smartphone for your money.

8. Moto X Style/Pure Edition

Motorola started nailing ‘the Android smartphone’ a couple of years ago with the original ‘X’ and the budget ‘G’ variants – strong chassis, curved back to allow for maximum battery capacity, and, here on the Style/Pure Edition (the name depends on market!), front-mounted stereo speakers too. It’s a distinctive design, and backed up a decent (if not world leading) camera, great reception, innovative ‘ambient’ display (since copied by Google itself) and various voice and gesture aids. And all at mid-range prices, making the range always worth considering, from the bottom end ‘E’ up to the top end ‘X’.

If there’s a complaint, it’s that Motorola hasn’t been paying attention to industry trends, with no fingerprint scanner, no OIS in the camera and no Qi charging, for example. Motorola, now owned by Lenovo, needs more than another year of treading water if it wants to still be top 10 material in the flagship stakes at Christmas.

7. Honor 5X

Representing the unashamed value pick in this top 10, the Honor 5X is firmly in the budget camp – you can get three or four of these for one Samsung Galaxy S7 edge! Yet it’s solid metal, has a fast fingerprint scanner, a very good screen and a surprisingly good camera. I honestly don’t know how Huawei (which makes the Honor handsets) does it, it’s clearly secret sauce of some kind. Admittedly, performance isn’t cutting edge, but then neither is it laggy – and the only thing to complain about is the lack of an application drawer. As with all Huawei’s handsets, you’ll need to put on your own third party app launcher if you don’t l