Google wasn't especially visible at this year's Mobile World Congress—the company didn't have a stand anywhere on the show floor—but it nevertheless found a way to be nearly ubiquitous. Nokia (and others) introduced a handful of new Windows Phone 8 handsets, and there was some buzz around both Mozilla's nascent Firefox OS and Canonical's just-released Ubuntu Touch Preview, but every OEM at the show had a bewildering number of Android-based handsets to cover every conceivable market niche. The phones universally used custom skins and pre-loaded apps (as is their wont), and though Samsung dominates the ecosystem, everyone else seems to be giving it their best shot.

We didn't take a photo of every single Android handset on the floor, but we grabbed some shots of most of the interesting ones. High-end handsets seem to keep getting larger, but on the whole Android phones remain remarkably diverse, especially if you go off the beaten path that is the high-end market.

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham

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