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New Android phones releasing month after month, there can be no definitive way to declare a particular phone to be the best buy for too long. That's why we've made it a monthly habit to keep updating the Best Android phones to buy list, so that potential buyers have one place to seek advice.


Here is a growing number of options in this cost conscious smart phone range, with every manufacturer trying to one-up the other by marginally improving the features. As a rule of the thumb, I'm not even going to consider all those phones with resistive touch screens, and with good reason. As of now, we declare the newly launched Sam sung Galaxy Pop S5570 as the champion of the paisa vasool range. It's an upgrade to the popular Galaxy 5 i5500 model and it brings about some important changes -- the screen size is bumped up from 2.8 inches to 3.2 inches, although it still has the low QVGA (320 x 240 pixel) resolution. But for the price, we can forgive Sam sung of this sin. The camera resolution is upped from the pitiful 2 mega pixel to the not-so-pitiful 3.2 mega pixel. It still lacks auto focus and an LED flash; don't expect great photo quality from it.



Most important change is that it runs Android 2.2 Froyo from start, unlike the Galaxy 5 which still runs Android 2.1, with no clear update road map in sight. It may not be the most recent Gingerbread (2.3) version, but we still appreciate it running a fairly recent version, given how fast Google churns out OS updates every year. It still has the i5500's 600 MHz processor, and with the same QVGA resolution and the Froyo performance optimizations, you can expect the User Interface to fly swiftly. Apart from this, the Galaxy Pop also adds a proximity sensor and a compass to the package. Connectivity is sorted with 3.5G (HSDPA), Wi-fi 802.11n and A-GPS support. It sells for Rs. 9,000 -- the same price that its predecessor was sold at when launched. For the price, we think the Galaxy Pop S5570 is a good package for the Android lover who likes to hold back on splurging hard earned money.

Knowledge in a point - 6

• Leonardo Da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.


• The Human body has about 100 trillion cells.


• An Octopus's testicles are located in its head.


• O.K stands for “oll korrect”.


• Only one satellite has ever been destroyed by a meteor.


• Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first Email in 1976.


• The bones of a Pigeon weigh less than its Feather.


• Japanese people don't have Middle Names.


• 80% of the World's food crops are pollinated by insects.


• 10% of with World's food supply is consumed by insects.


• A Banana contains 75% water.