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The HTC Radar is the more youthful brother of the HTC Titan, a really mammoth Windows Phone smart phone that rocks a 4.7-inch display. The Radar isn’t quite so gigantic, but it’s no less exciting, and will be an awful lot cheaper. We’ve gone hands-on, so read onwards for our first impressions.
Design and feel
The Radar feels quite chunky, and it’s definitely substantial too, feeling rather hefty within the hand. That’s typical of HTC mobiles, and indeed it’s fair to mention HTC hasn’t strayed from its established design formula — the rear is a curved patchwork of metallic and rubberised textures, lending the Radar an industrial feel.We’re told the Radar will are available white, or in a more demure black. We were taking a look at the white version, which has silver trimmings, and we quite like it, though often we reckon the black editions of phones usually look a little bit classier.Like all Windows Phone devices, there are three buttons along the ground — back, home and search, which you will use to navigate the phone’s interface. Around the back you will see a 5-megapixel camera, and there is a front-facing camera too, though it has a considerably lower (VGA) resolution.
The Radar has a 5-megapixel camera and an LED flash.Display and processor
The screen measures 3.8 inches at the diagonal, that’s a big display by any measure, but is admittedly dwarfed by the vast HTC Titan. Still, we were impressed by the brightness of the Radar’s screen, and icons and text looked very crisp.On the inside, the Radar is powered by a second-generation Snapdragon processor, clocked at 1GHz. That isn’t as speedy as another smart phones, but we didn’t notice the Radar performing slowly in any respect. Our hands-on time was brief, so we’ll need more time before we will say for sure, but this felt like a wonderfully capable little phone.
The Radar is not the thinnest phone at the market.Finally, there’s 8GB of on-board storage, so as to probably be enough to your music collection, so long as it is not too massive.
Windows Phone Mango
The Radar will ship running Windows Phone Mango, the very latest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system. It packs some fairly crucial additions, most notably multi-tasking — the facility to maintain apps running within the background and turn between them.That’s achieved by holding down the back button for a moment, as a way to put your whole running apps in a carousel around the screen. You’ll then swipe between them, tapping to make a choice the only you wish to dive back into.You too can now sort your contacts into groups, and pin that group to the Windows homescreen. The little widget will then keep track of tweets, texts and Facebook updates from the folk in that group. Handy if you wish to keep track of a small circle of people, as an example your family, or your absolutely bestest best buddies.
HTC extras
HTC has added some goodies too — there is a hub mode with attractive weather effects (and the signature HTC clock), something called Connected Media so that they can output your photos and flicks in your telly via a DLNA connection, and HTC Watch, that is HTC’s movie service. We’re informed that logins for the Android version of HTC Watch will work fine.
The Radar has an HTC-designed weather app.There’s also a dock mode, for when you are using the Radar as an alarm clock, or for when it’s just sat in your desk. Dock mode displays on-screen information in an appealing widget-style display, which looks rather paying homage to the default Android background on an HTC phone.
Outlook
We didn’t find anything particularly striking in regards to the Radar, either good or bad. We suspect its success depends upon whether Windows Phone Mango can improve the collection of apps it offers to compete with its iPhone and Android rivals. If the operating system itself starts to appear tempting, the Radar seems like a tight little mobile, which hopefully won’t cost you the Earth. Stay tuned for the whole review.Edited by Nick Hide
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