If one of the things that you’ve been dreaming about buying is an Android phone, we have some good news: you don't have to hit the Euromillions jackpot just to get a rockin' Android phone that you'll love using. Of course, with the rising cost of technology, you might have to feel like you have to win a lottery just to get the top of the line Android phones. Yet there’s nothing that says that this technology is out of your reach -- you’re just going to have to do some digging.

For starters, if you’re willing to sign a new agreement with a cell phone carrier, you can get a lot of hot phones for a lot less money than if you were to try to buy everything no contract. That's not really going to help you get a phone that's going to have your friends talking -- because it'll be way too expensive for you to enjoy! Many of these phones can be $500 without a contract of any kind. We don't know about you, but we really don’t have that type of money just lying around waiting to be spent on something like a cell phone. Yet if you were to sign a 2 year agreement with a carrier, that same $500 might only be $150.

Of course, you might wonder how that's even possible -- but the truth is that cell phone carriers value those contracts more than just about anything else in the world. if you’re not the type to really go through the motions, you’re going to find that the best that you can do is to get a phone that’s in your budget. But what about used phones?

See, the way technology progresses is so fast that today's hot phones can often become tomorrow's losers. Yet if a phone has all of the features that you crave, what's stopping you from getting it used? Let someone else pay the high dollar price while you swoop down and scoop it up without having to break the bank. That's a pretty intelligent move, wouldn't you say?

While we’re on the subject of phones, you should make sure that you’re protecting it from every angle. No matter how much you pay for a new Android phone, you want to keep it secure, and you want to keep it safe. That's why a good carrying case will actually take care of both problems for you. Things that are stored on your body are a lot harder to steal than things that are just free floating.

Now is the perfect time to get your Android phone -- and you don't even have to strike it rich to get what you want!