Planning to buy a new smartphone this month? The Mobile Hub has listed four of the most powerful Android handsets available right now to help you narrow down your selection. Choose wisely!
The Amazon Fire
Following all the rumours and speculation Amazon have launched the Fire phone and while it may not be the most powerful kid on the block it does have some neat features. The device comes with Fire OS v3.5 and this includes four front facing cameras that give a 3D dynamic perspective interface, this allows you to scroll, pop out menus and control certain functions without needing to touch the display.
It comes in at 139.2 x 66.5 x 8.9 mm and weighs 160 grams and has the Snapdragon 800 processor which was clocked at 2.2GHz. It offers a 720p display of 4.7 inches, 2GB of RAM and choice of 32 or 64GB of storage. The camera is 13MP with OIS and there is a camera of 2.1MP, while the battery is 2,400mAh. If you want it off contract you will pay around $649.
The LG G3
The LG G3 comes with the True HD IPS+ LCD display of 5.5 inches and 1440 x 2560 resolution with 534ppi. The device is 146.3 mm tall, 74.6 mm wide, and 8.9 mm thin, while having a weight of 149 grams.
The LG G3 offers the 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 processor which is quad core and it comes with 16GB of storage4 along with 2GB of RAM or you can get the 32GB storage and 3GB of RAM. It also takes SD card and it offer a camera of 13MP along with OIS and supports video at 4, with a 2.1MP camera on the front. It has KitKat 4.2.2 and a battery of 3,000mAh. You can pick it up for around $579 to $599.
The Samsung Galaxy S5
The Samsung Galaxy S5 offers a display of 5.1 inch Super AMOLED display with the Snapdragon 801 processor clocked at 2.5GHz. It comes with fingerprint sensor , 2GB of RAM and is offered with 16GB or 32GB of storage. It also takes SD card up to 128GB.
There is a camera of 16MP on the back with LED flash, it supports HDR and 4k video and there is a camera of 2MP on the front. It runs on KitKat 4.4.2 and has TouchWiz on top.
The Samsung Galaxy S4
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is 136.6 mm tall, 69.8 mm wide, 7.9 mm thin and has a weigh of 130 grams. The device offers a display of 5 inches of Super AMOLED along with a camera of 13MP and a 2MP camera on the front. You can choose from 16GB or 32GB of storage and it offers support for SD card along with 2GB of RAM. You can pick it up for between $499 and $549 off contract and it has KitKat 4.4.2.
The HTC One M8
The HTC One M8 offers a display of SuperLCD3 with a display of 5 inches and resolution of 1080 x 1920. The device is 146.4 mm tall, 70.6 mm wide, 9.4 mm thin, and weighs 160 grams with zero gap aluminium.
There is a battery of 2,600mAh and it offers the Snapdragon 802 processor which was clocked at 2.5GHz. it also has the Adreno 330GPU along with 2GB of RAM, 16/32GB of storage and it supports SD card up to 128GB. The camera is a Dual 4MP UltraPixel with autofocus, dual LED, HDR and video recording at 1080p at 30 frames per second. There is a camera on the front of 5MP.
The HTC One M8 has KitKat 4.4.2 and you can get it with Sprint for 479 and for free with AT&T.
