Best Android Phone for my Needs?

[Guest killthatwha]

So for the past few weeks I have been lurking the forum and such, and even managed to make a n00b out of myself in the ZTE Blade forum by not searching before asking stupid questions. Nevertheless, here I am with (yet another) question.

It's my birthday in about 3 weeks, and I'm somewhat tempted to spend the money I get on an Android phone, to replace my dying iPod Touch 2G and also my crummy £10 phone.

So, what I could say I need in a Android phone is -

Value for money.

Decent music playback (Minimal hissing etc. I understand that the default music player at the moment is crap, but with Gingerbread should come a much improved one).

Nice touchscreen.

and if at all possible, an official or unofficial upgrade to 2.3 or well, updates in the future. I would hate to buy a phone which suddenly was dead in the water after 2 months!I understand it can depend on the phone and such as well. I do understand that unofficial updates depend on the model and such etc.

Unlockable.

I originally looked around and saw the ZTE Blade, I was really surprised at the value for money and huge amount of unofficial development in terms of updates.. and it looked perfect! But I heard it's music playback leaves much to be desired sadly.

If anyone could reccomend an Android phone which you think would fit my needs, I would really appriciate it to be honest haha :D

I would say my budget is £150 or so.

Thanks in advance, and a (somewhat) belated happy new year :P,

KILLTHATWHA.

[Guest Ron=)]

So for the past few weeks I have been lurking the forum and such, and even managed to make a n00b out of myself in the ZTE Blade forum by not searching before asking stupid questions. Nevertheless, here I am with (yet another) question.

It's my birthday in about 3 weeks, and I'm somewhat tempted to spend the money I get on an Android phone, to replace my dying iPod Touch 2G and also my crummy £10 phone.

So, what I could say I need in a Android phone is -

Value for money.

Decent music playback (Minimal hissing etc. I understand that the default music player at the moment is crap, but with Gingerbread should come a much improved one).

Nice touchscreen.

and if at all possible, an official or unofficial upgrade to 2.3 or well, updates in the future. I would hate to buy a phone which suddenly was dead in the water after 2 months!I understand it can depend on the phone and such as well. I do understand that unofficial updates depend on the model and such etc.

Unlockable.

I originally looked around and saw the ZTE Blade, I was really surprised at the value for money and huge amount of unofficial development in terms of updates.. and it looked perfect! But I heard it's music playback leaves much to be desired sadly.

If anyone could reccomend an Android phone which you think would fit my needs, I would really appriciate it to be honest haha :D

I would say my budget is £150 or so.

Thanks in advance, and a (somewhat) belated happy new year :P,

KILLTHATWHA.

Music play on the Blade is an issue for certain headphones types. With the apporiate adapter - i.e the recomended nokia adapter the music play is fine the sound is nice and loud and the hiss is not noticeable while playing music! Just keep that in mind!

What would you like to do with your phone? What features appeal to you in particular? (High res screen, High res camera, Gaming ability etc.)

Ron=)

[Guest killthatwha]

Music play on the Blade is an issue for certain headphones types. With the apporiate adapter - i.e the recomended nokia adapter the music play is fine the sound is nice and loud and the hiss is not noticeable while playing music! Just keep that in mind!

What would you like to do with your phone? What features appeal to you in particular? (High res screen, High res camera, Gaming ability etc.)

Ron=)

Ah, thats okay then!

Well, I would like a nice resolution, the HTC Wildfires was really low, which put me off that model..

The camera can be terrible for all I care, I have a decent Pentax one which I use.. :D

Gaming ability isn't really a huge thing for me either, but a decent CPU would be a bonus, since it would means the can potentially get more updates. :P