10 best Android phones 2017: which should you buy?

There's one key way in which Android is massively different from its Apple-branded smartphone competition - the number of phones out there running Google's hot mobile OS.

The big names are all here; Samsung, Sony, LG and HTC are all right at the fore. On top of that, there's a glut of other names in the mix, with the likes of Lenovo, Motorola and OnePlus all offering cheap smartphones - and Google's gone high end with the new Pixel range.

The many variations in screen size, processor power, software features and design makes finding the best phone for you extremely tough.

To help find the most fitting Android phone for you, we've rounded up the best Android handsets out there today, rating the phones on hardware performance, OS upgrade potential and, of course, how shiny and nice they are to have and boast about to work colleagues.

So here they are - the best Android phones money can buy today. For many, many different reasons.

1. Samsung Galaxy S8

Biometrics aside, this is the best Android phone

Samsung has once again taken the top spot of the best Android phone in the world right now.

Samsung's latest Gal

axy S8 is in the top position of this list thanks to an incredible design, amazing display and some truly great power packed into the phone.

Everything that has made Samsung phones great over the last few years has been packed into this 5.8-inch device - that's almost bezeless too - and comes with top of the range hardware and some easy to use Android software.

There's a new iris scanner to allow you to unlock the phone with just your eyes and Samsung has also included a new voice assistant called Bixby. It's not the perfect device some had hoped for, but it's the best Android phone you can buy at the moment.