Top 10 most anticipated smartphones

2. HTC Vision
HTC already has a wide range of handsets based on Google's Android platform, but these are exclusively touch-screen devices at the moment.

This could be about to change, if the word on the grapevine can be believed. Rumours on various enthusiast sites point to a handset codenamed HTC Vision that resembles the company's existing Desire handset, but has a slide-out Qwerty keyboard.

Like the Desire, this device is expected to have a 3.7in touch screen, 1GHz processor and Android 2.1 (possibly 2.2), with HTC's Sense overlay.

However, the keyboard could make the Vision more appealing as a business-oriented Android device for email and messaging, a niche currently being filled by Motorola's Milestone.

HTC has declined to confirm the existence of the Vision, but with photos purporting to be the device appearing on the web, a handset matching this description seems to be on the cards. Some sites have even indicated that T-Mobile is set to carry the device under the name G1 Blaze.

1. Intel Moorestown phones
Intel has made no secret of its plans to get the x86 architecture into smaller mobile devices, but its processors have always been too power hungry to challenge ARM's domination of the handset market.

This could change with the Moorestown platform and its Atom Z600 series processor, said to have one fiftieth the power consumption of earlier Atom chips, enough for a decent battery life while the chip still clocks at 1.5GHz.

Intel showed a prototype handset from LG (the LG GW990) at CES earlier this year, but this phone will not now come to market, according to the latest reports.

However, other vendors are proceeding with Intel-based phones, including Aava Mobile which has a reference design with a 3.8in touch-screen, 5-megapixel camera, and all the other features you would expect in a high-end smartphone.

The first models are likely to appear sometime in 2011, and we can't wait to see what kind of apps you can run on these Intel-based smartphones.