Cheap but programming rich phone?

You think to yourself: what this question has to do with programming? Let me explain.

I had a SE K770i and tried to write a software on it that records sound and sends it to the server. And it occurred that the development framework on this phone limits and makes it hard to send big chunks of data.

So now i use older phone. But would like to start write some kicking bad-asses software for some new technology. So i figured out i ask you guys what is the most programmer-friendly hi-tech phone right now that is cheap and popular.

What the phone needs to have:

• good software development documentation
• must be cheap
• must have recording, touch screen, video and sending data via internet support
• must have nice access to all this resources from source code
• must be popular

And it should NOT be Apple, because i can't effort 200 dollars a year to write some apps and don't like the whole verification think.

What hi-tech, cheap phone is a right way for a mobile developer these days?

As HW goes, perhaps this one which is a cheep android phone which received a lot of positive acclaim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE_Blade.