HTC TITAN AND HTC RADAR COMING SOON

This week HTC announced two Windows 7 phones the Titan and the Radar. Windows phones are still set to be a big contender in the market place with with Nokia expected to adopt the OS onto all their Smartphones from Q3. We’re big fans of HTC here at Mobiles.co.uk with the Android Sensation being one of our most loved phones this year. Lets see if they’ve done it again for Windows.

The HTC Radar

Size

The Radar is the smaller of the two measuring 120.5 x 61.5 x 10.9 mm, so in comparison to other HTC’s your looking at a similar size to the HTC Desire S. With that you get a 3.8 inch display that offers 480 by 800 pixels. Nothing revolutionary here but defiantly not under delivering.

Specs

Inside we’ve got a 1 GHz Scorpion processor found in most Androidsmartphones currently available, a healthy 5 megapixel camera, auto focus and a flash LE.D. The camera’s images will be a maximum of 2560 x 1920 pixels and 720p video at 30 frames per second. Again a solid performance so far. 8GB of internal storage and 512MB of ram as well as a sleuth of other features wifi b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.1 and a stereo radio. The big difference is the lack of an external memory card. This is due to the Windows operating system which doesn’t allow for the swapping over of memory cards without a full format.

Software

The Radar is going to come with windows 7.5 (Mango) which is the much anticipated updated to the original windows 7 software and will bring some essential updates such as multitasking, social media integration and maps. On top of the Windows update HTC have added some spice of their own with the HTC watch application. This offers owners of the handset access to premium music and video content directly to their handset which is streamed over Wifi and 3G. This is quite similar to the iTunes app found on iPhones and iPads, time will tell how popular this feature will be and will mainly judged on content and cost

Next up the HTC Titan

This isn’t the first windows phone from HTC to have this name although the previous model was launched under network specific pseudonyms  (Orange SPV M3100 for example). In it’s day the original Titan (Or tytn as it was cleverly branded) was the  cream of the crop for, although compared to today’s standards it was pretty horrific. Lets see how it stands up.

Size

Well as the name suggests it’s a big phone. The Titan is 131.5 x 70.07 x 9.9mm so the biggest windows phone yet. Larger still then the HD7, you’re going to notice this in your pocket however for that you get a 4.7 inch display which is pretty impressive. The pixels displayed is 480 x 800 so not a higer resolution then the Radar but if your eye sight isn’t the best we’re sure you’ll appreciate the extra inch.

Specs

Thanks to the larger form factor you get a 1.5 GHz processor which is the fastest from HTC and Windows 7. Although not dual core 1.5GHz is more then enough to process any mobile operations with ease. You also get an 8 mega pixel camera offering images with a resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels, auto focus and L.E.D flash. You also get a front facing 1.3 mega pixel camera for video calls and using as a mirror. 16GB of internal memory and 512mb of ram, although again you’re not able to get external memory cards due to the operating system.

Software

All of the above, the HTC titan comes with windows 7.5 Mango as well and getting the HTC watch software on top so a pretty solid phone all round.

Final Thoughts

Both the Titan and Radar offer a wider range of handsets to the Windows phone fans and updates what was becoming an outdated catalogue. We know that the build quality of HTC phones is solid and can rely on happy customers in the hardware camp. What is waiting to be seen is the success of windows 7 as a mobile operating system. We think with the big names backing it windows 7.5 is going to be a success sooner or later especially with the resources Microsoft has to pull from. The HTC Titan and Radar should be available in Q3 and you can register for updates on the release dates here.