Top 10 Android Alternatives To The Samsung Galaxy Note 7

5. Nexus 5X

Cooked up by Google and LG, the Nexus 5X offers stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow, with an upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat in the works, a 5.2 inch display and fingerprint sensor for around £250 for the entry-level 16GB model.

An impressive camera and soft-touch polycarbonate design gives it a refresh over its well-received Nexus 5 predecessor, it’s also going to be significantly cheaper way to get a stock Android phone than Google’s recently announced Pixel smartphones. However, getting your hands on one now might be a bit difficult…

4. HTC 10

HTC’s flagship may not be flush with gimmicks or features but it does rock one of the nicest smartphone designs out there, with a metal body that feel chunky yet premium to the touch.

Into this design HTC has fitted a fingerprint scanner, hi-rez audio, and a 5.2 inch display with a resolution of 2560 x 1440. The HTC 10 also has a more streamlined user interface over the tweaks it did to Android in its previous flagship phones, making the model one of the best the company has made to date.

3. OnePlus 3

If you want a smartphone chock-full of high-end features but don’t want to pay a premium price for it, then the OnePlus 3 is for you. For a little over £300 you get a dollop of processing power, a fetching full-metal design, finger print scanner, and a 5.5 inch full HD display.

On the software side, the OnePlus 3 sticks mostly to stock Android 6.0 with just a few tweaks, which combined with the price and specification should make the smartphone appeal to even the most mournful Galaxy Note 7 owners.

2. Nexus 6P

The bigger sibling to the Nexus 5X, the Nexus 6P features Huawei’s hardware design with Google’s software. Set for a Android Nougat, the phablet sized smartphone is packed with features at a reasonable £450. It’s due to be replaced by the Google’s Pixel XL in just a couple of weeks, so keen buyer need to snap it up now.

A 5.7 inch display with running a 2,560 x 1,440 resolution is one appealing feature of the Nexus 6P, while a fingerprint scanner and an octa-core processor in the form of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 2.1 chip makes the smartphone a more appealing package for the price.

1. Samsung Galaxy S7

Both the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge are worthy replacements to the Galaxy Note 7. While they may lack some of the features their phablet sibling has, they are not prone to spontaneous combustion.

Furthermore, they sport attractive aluminium and glass designs, QHD displays, waterproofing, excellent cameras, powerful processors and expandable storage. Then there’s compatibility with the Samsung Gear VR virtual reality headset; in short they are arguably two of the best smartphones on the market let alone just top drawer Android devices.

So while some may mourn the passing of the Galaxy Note 7, there’s more than a few Android alternatives to keep them happy until 2017 rolls around with its inevitable next wave of iterative smartphones.