I am due to upgrade my mobile phone in a couple of months, so yet again it’s time to pick the best of a generally bad bunch that I will be lumbered with for the next two years. Roughly speaking, my choice is:

Phone	Decent hardware	Software updates	Good battery life	Rootable in perpetuity	New and interesting	No need to change desktop OS
Galaxy S III	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
HTC One X	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Galaxy Nexus	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Droid RAZR MAXX	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
iPhone 4S	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Lumia 900	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No

Please, phone manufacturers, make a phone that has more than three of the things in this table. Just for once.