Unless you stay glued to the latest smartphone news, it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with all of the Android phones that have been announced and released recently. As we enter the fall season we?ll see some new gear from Apple, but until then we can take a look at some new Android phones on the market today.
The thing that is both cool (and occasionally frustrating) about Android phones is that they are made by such a wide group of manufacturers. This means that the companies are always sticking the latest and greatest in their phones, but it also means that they need to do some clever things with software in order to compete with other phones being released using the same OS. As a result, each manufacturer has their own unique set of features that they use to sell their products. This is cool if you love playing with all the new Android phones that seem to come out every week, but it can make choosing a new smartphone complicated.
This guide will help you tell these shiny new Android phones apart, and choose for yourself which is the right choice.
Motorola Droid Mini, Droid Ultra, and Droid Maxx
As the first carrier to try an exclusive branding for certain Android phones (and the only carrier who still thinks it is a good idea), Verizon Wireless and its Droid line have made a permanent mark on the Android ecosystem. Phones that bear the Droid branding are Verizon exclusives, and come with a unique set of wallpapers, notification, and ringtones? and typically a healthy dose of bloatware courtesy of Big Red. Motorola has now made a permanent arrangement with VZW so that all future Droid phones will be made with the big M on the back. The most recent release was not one but three Android phones, each with their own unique form factor and feature set.
Motorola?s three Droid phones are all alike on the inside, but their outsides are build for three very different kinds of users. The 4.3-inch Droid Mini is built to serve the user who wants a smaller profile phone that still has higher end specs. The Droid Ultra is the next phone in a long line to claim their chassis is the thinnest in the land, while sporting a 5-inch screen and a 10MP camera. The Droid Maxx is the workhorse of the family, with a massive 3500mAh battery that promises 48 hours of battery life. Each of these phones is packing the Motorola X8 computing system, with a kevlar unibody design and a water repellant nano-coating.
The interesting thing about the new Droid line is that they intentionally try not to compete in raw specs. They claim a superior feature set and user experience and claim that their dual core chipset is just as capable as the quad core seen in flagships like the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. Verizon has been sure to give the new Droid line plenty of space in their stores and plenty of coverage in their advertisements, but it is still too early to tell just how successful this line of phones will be.
HTC One Mini
Joining in the increasingly popular opinion that 4.3-inches for a phone is ?mini? despite being slightly larger than the iPhone 5 is HTC with the shrunken variant to the very popular One phone. The HTC One Mini is not going to win anyone over on raw horsepower, but the comfortable unibody design for the One feels just as comfortable in the hand when shrunken down a bit.
If you subtract the IR port from the power button, the NFC panel from the back, and the image stabilizer from the Ultrapixel camera from the HTC One proper, you?ve got a pretty good idea of what you?re going to get from the Mini variant. The power for HTC?s latest phones comes from the combination of comfortable to hold hardware and a completely unique take on Android. The same version of Android with HTC Sense can be found on the One Mini, delivering Blinkfeed and BeatsAudio optimizations to enhance the mobile experience.
It?s pretty clear that HTC?s hardware and software optimizations are here to stay, and if you?re a fan of the One but wish it were a tiny bit smaller you may find yourself quite happy with the One Mini.
Next page: New Android phones from Samsung and Motorola?
Source: http://www.geek.com/news/new-android-phones-you-should-know-about-1563708/
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