Best Samsung Cell Phone

By Krishna Pérmi . Last updated Jul 4, 2016.

Beautiful design, excellent usability and good quality are the key highlights of some of the best Samsung smartphones. Top selling options are the latest Android supported Samsung phones.

Samsung has recently taken the smartphone market by storm. The smartphones from Samsung mainly come with the Android OS and occasionally with other proprietary OSs (Bada, Windows Phone OS etc).

Most popular carriers support almost all Samsung smartphones and offer attractive contracts too. Samsung offers a good choice of smartphones catering the mid range and high end consumers.

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Some key facts about Samsung:
1. Samsung is a Korea based company and presently has a global market share of over 22%.
2. The latest addition to its flagship series of Galaxy S phones is the highly reviewed Galaxy S II (high-end all rounder).

As one of the major deployers of Google's Android mobile operating system, Samsung has become the world's largest manufacturer of cellphones. The best Samsung Android cellphones are the smartphones which run on the latest version of Android operating system and are available from most carriers: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint. Some of the Samsung cellphones are also available with prepaid/no contract option.

With a number of entertainment and innovative features like GPS navigation and NFC, the best Samsung Android cellphones are designed for consumer and business/enterprise usage with the support for 4G LTE network.

Samsung allows user to regularly update their versions of Android operating systems with new features and enhanced performance - eliminating the need to buy a newer cellphone with a latest Android version.

For playing games, watching movies and browsing photos with ease, Samsung adopts an advanced display technology for touchscreens: Super AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode). AMOLED is a mobile display technology which provides easier touch interaction with glare-free screen and with brilliant images. Super AMOLEDs are known for low-power(saving 20% battery life when compared to conventional screens) and low-cost technologies implemented on large screens (over 5 inch) with an 180 degree viewing angle.

Some of the prominent Android cellphone product lines from Samsung are Galaxy S, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus.

Galaxy S:
Samsung Galaxy S line products run the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and above versions with screen sizes over 5 inch screens and support for 3G and LTE networks. Having high resolution screens of 720p and 1080p resolutions, these cellphones offer 8 and 13 megapixel resolution cameras. Samsung's 1 GHz Hummingbird processor incorporated on these cellphones deliver high-quality image standards with sharp, clear and stunning images, video and game interaction.

Galaxy Note:
Samsung's Galaxy Note is a product line for phablets with over 5.5 inch screens with stylus running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system. With a display resolution of 720p, these cellphones offer 8 megapixel resolution camera. Combining the features of smartphones and tablets: large and HD screens, quad-core processors and longer battery life, these cellphones are suitable for enterprise for multitasking usage.

Galaxy Nexus:
Manufactured by a partnership between Google and Samsung, Galaxy Nexus line of Android cellphones are available from Sprint and Verizon networks with specifications like 4.5 inch screen, 5 megapixel camera, dual core processor and 720p HD screen.

*NFC is an innovative Android, sharing feature which helps users to share files across the other paired NFC-enabled devices in a convenient manner. The Android Beam is also helpful in multiplayer game playing and chatting.