HTC Titan II Review

  

   HTC has announced the massive Titan II Windows Phone at CES. Suffice it to say, Nokia's Lumia 900 is going to have some competition for best Windows Phone when they launch.The big news here is Titan II's 16 megapixel camera, which is easily twice as many as most competing phones, and a 25% more than Sony's recently announced super phone, the Xperia S.

 

   

   In the last year, HTC has stepped up its game in the camera department. First, there was the T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide, which wowed us with its excellent image quality, intuitive camera interface and wide variety of advanced shooting features. HTC followed up with another camera-centric phone for T-Mobile, the HTC Amaze, which added the BurstShot and a few extra shooting modes. HTC extended this to its Windows Phones, starting with the HTC Titan and following up with the HTC Titan 2.

   According to Jeff Gordon, the online communications manager for HTC, the company wanted to find a way to differentiate itself in the Windows Phone world. Microsoft doesn’t allow overlays (like HTC Sense) and requires certain hardware specs and features. The one area where there is some flexibility, however, is the camera and camera user interface.
  
  The 16-megapixel camera has a F2.6 aperture, which is ideal for shooting in low light environments. It also has a backlit illuminated sensor. The camcorder can shoot up to 720p resolution video. Since the Titan 2 has a single core processor, it can’t support 1080p HD video capture.
   Like the Amaze and Touch 4G Slide, the Titan 2 has a slew of shooting modes and advanced features. You get a couple of hip-looking filters (like a built-in Hipstamatic app), panorama mode, BurstMode (for taking multiple shots in succession), an image stabilizer and flicker adjustment. There are also white balance, saturation, contrast and sharpness controls. HTC has gone above and beyond any camera I’ve seen in terms of shooting modes. Candle Light, Backlight Portrait, Night Portrait, Beach and Text are just a few of the shooting modes. There are also quite a few camcorder modes like Vintage Warm (sepia-toned), Vintage Cold (like an old black and white movie), Overexposed and Blue Tint. The camera interface is also clean and easy to navigate.

KEY FEATURES OF HTC TITAN II

Company : HTC

ModeL : Titan 2

Announced : 2012, January

Status : Coming soon

Display : S-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size : 480 x 800 pixels, 4.7 inches (~199 ppi pixel density)

Ringtones : Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones

Memory Slot : No

Internal : 16 GB storage, 512 MB RAM

Data : GPRS, Class 32

EDGE : Class 32

Speed : HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps

WLAN : Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA

Bluetooth : Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR

Camera : 16 MP, 4640 x 3480 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash

Features : Geo-tagging, BSI sensor, image stabilization, face detection

Video : Yes, 720p

Secondary : Yes, 1.3 MP

OS : Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

Chipset : Qualcomm S2 Snapdragon

CPU : 1.5 GHz Scorpion

GPU : Adreno 205

Messaging : SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email

Browser : WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML

Radio : Stereo FM radio with RDS

GPS : Yes, with A-GPS support; Bing Maps

Colors : Carbon Gray

Intentainment: – MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player

– MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player

– Facebook and Twitter integration

– YouTube client

– Document viewer/editor

– Voice memo

– Predictive text input

Battery : Standard battery, Li-Ion 1,730 mAh

    This has been an exciting show for Microsoft’s mobile operating system with the announcements of both the Titan 2 and the Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T’s LTE 4G network. Finally, Windows Phone is getting enticing hardware--and its about darn time.

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