14 DAY TRIAL // Since we're nearing another year's end, UK's Omio.com has just delivered a list of what they consider to be the 10 best handsets of 2009. The leader on that top 10 is the HTC Hero, the first Android device from the Taiwanese handset vendor to arrive with the Sense solution on board, and also one of the most popular phones that runs under Google's Android operating system.
“The strong design, slick social networking skills and beautiful implementation of the Android operating system with the ‘Sense’ UI has seen the HTC Hero snag an armful of ‘Best Phone’ awards this year, and rightly so. Packing a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen and GPS in a unique, angular form factor, the Hero is possibly the best phone to demonstrate what Google’s new operating system is really capable of,” is what Omio says about the phone.
The next in line comes another HTC device, the Windows Mobile-based HD2. It sports a large 4.3-inch touchscreen display, which is a great advantage, as well as the Sense solution, a 5-megapixel camera and removable storage capabilities, something that pushed it in front of Apple's iPhone 3GS, another handset that landed on the market in 2009. However, the last iteration of Apple's iconic device only managed to finish third in line, perhaps showing that the hype around it has started to fade in front of more powerful and somehow more capable solutions.
The Omio top 10 mobile phones of 2009 continues with the Samsung Genio Touch, a cheap phone that can do a lot, followed on the fifth position by the Sony Ericsson Satio. The 12.1-megapixel behemoth seems to appeal a lot to users, even if struck by some software issues in the past, and it proved to be a little better than the Palm Pre, the first webOS handset to arrive on the shelves this year.
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N900, LG Chocolate BL40 and Blackberry Curve 8520 end the list on the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth places, respectively. One would have expected to see the Maemo-based N900 higher in the list, yet it seems that its late arrival to the party affected its final image. More info on each of the phones, as well as links to some of the deals on these handsets can be found on Omio here.