The HTC Explorer is an affordable smartphone that is now available to buy from both Three and Vodafone.

The vast majority of HTC's smartphones are now premium devices, but the HTC Explorer offers a more affordable alternative. Infact, you can pickup the Explorer for £130 on Pay As You Go on both Three and Vodafone.

Three are also offering the mobile on monthly contracts where it starts at just £15 a month which will get you 100 minutes, 5,000 texts and 500MB of mobile data. You can view all the available HTC Explorer deals on Three by clicking here.

Considering the price,  3G thinks that the specification of the HTC Explorer is pretty remarkable. The Explorer has a 3.2 inch touch-screen, 600MHz processor, 3 mega-pixel camera and runs on Android 2.3. One of the best things about getting a HTC smartphone is the HTC Sense interface and the Explorer doesn't disappoint because it features version 3.5 of HTC's custom user-interface.

Those looking for a smartphone without wanting to spend a fortune could do much worse than the HTC Explorer.