10 Best Smartphones to Gift

2. Samsung Galaxy Nexus:

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the world's first phone to run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and comes with a plethora of top end tech, including a huge but still massively high resolution screen. Ice Cream Sandwich fuses together last year's Gingerbread OS for phones and Honeycomb for tablets and gives us a whole new, futuristic Android device to get to grips with.

It has AMOLED HD screen, Dual-Core 1.2 GHz processor, HSDPA, 5MP camera and NFC support, to name a few. The Nexus itself is fairly big, with the dimensions of 135.5 x 67.9 x 8.9mm. It has a front facing camera and the brightness sensor plus a cheeky little beneath the screen which is not recognizable until it flashes for a e-mail reminder.