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HTC will have earned its fame building red-hot Android mobiles, but it’s putting an excellent amount of stock in Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system too. The HTC Titan is an aptly named giant of a sensible phone, rocking Mango, the newest version of Windows Phone.We’ve gone hands-on with the Titan, and we’re set to deliver our first impressions, so er, titan your seatbelts!
4.7-inch screen
The Titan sports a fully gigantic 4.7-inch display so that you can push the very boundaries of ways much phone you’ll be able to slot in your hand. It is not way back we were questioning whether 4.3-inch phones just like the Desire HD were just too big, and now HTC has widened the goalposts again.We must say, we absolutely adore that vast screen, and going back to ‘normal’ smart phones afterwards felt quite cramped.If you have got smaller-than-normal hands, this may not be the telephone for you, and the wide dimensions stretched even our agile thumbs to their limits. But HTC has kept the Titan impressively slim at 9.9mm thick, and while it definitely feels substantial (like most of HTC’s creations), it wasn’t appallingly heavy to carry. We expect it’ll fit comfortably to your pocket.

For one of these large phone, the Titan is impressively slim.
There’s much to love in regards to the screen itself too. Really bright, and with a large viewing angle, this Super LCD display will do justice in your artsy amateur photography snaps.The 4.7-inch display really comes into its own with video though. We watched a film trailer, which looked superb at the huge screen — more comparable to watching a film on a tablet. This would be an ideal phone for watching movies or TV shows during your commute, for example.
Design
HTC hasn’t been too adventurous with the design of the Titan. Despite its size this phone seems like on the subject of another HTC has ever made. We mentioned its heft, and there is an industrial, rubberised feel to the metal casing.Around the back there’s an 8-megapixel camera, which HTC reckons will perform well in low-light conditions, though we didn’t get an opportunity to check this. Across the front there is a 1.3-megapixel snapper too for video calls.

The Titan features an 8-megapixel camera and a dual LED flash.
The camera has a couple of HTC-added modes, called panorama and burst, which behave as you’d expect — letting you’re making one big photo by stitching together three snaps, or capturing a chain of shots in quick succession, that’s handy for taking photos of errant pets who won’t stay still.Inside the Titan there is a second-generation Snapdragon processor, that’s clocked at a meaty 1.5GHz. That’s actually the similar setup that’s running inside HTC’s tablet, the Flyer, curiously enough. We noticed hardly any slowdown during our hands-on, and the telephone felt very slick.
Windows Phone Mango
The brilliantly named Windows Phone Mango adds some crucial features to the fledgling operating system, notably multi-tasking — the power to modify between different apps without closing them.This is achieved by holding the ‘back’ button for a moment, which arranges the entire currently running apps in a carousel, so that you can swipe between them. It looks like a chic solution — we just hope it proves quick enough in long-term testing.

The Titan has a rubberised feel to its metal casing.
You too can now create groups of contacts, and pin that group in your homescreen, so that you can quickly see texts, Facebook updates or tweets from the folks in that group. Useful should you only wish to see what you family or close friends are up to, for instance.Search now has a couple of extra goodies too. There is a native music search which helps you to identify tracks, Shazam-style, by playing them into your phone, and a QR code reader inbuilt as well.HTC has added a couple of extra treats, including a hub with cool weather effects, HTC Watch, that’s HTC’s video app (logins for the Android version will even work), a dock mode which shows you widget-style information for when your phone is static to your desk on getting used as an alarm clock, and Connected Media, which puts your photos or video in your TV over a DLNA connection.
Outlook
We’re really impressed by the appear and feel of the HTC Titan, and while we had our reservations a few screen that massive, we found it was actually quite comfy to hold, and looked really bright and bold. It continues to be seen whether Windows Phone Mango can compete with the likes of the iPhone and Android, but with mobiles this accomplished leading the charge it is going to stand an even chance.Edited by Nick Hide
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