Can Mangoes thrash Androids?
Android-powered based mobile phones are dominating the world of smartphones. Smartphones built on Windows OS are trying their level best to beat this trend. The lead in this direction was taken by Taiwan based mobile phone manufacturing company - HTC. HTC having many firsts to its credit has launched Windows based smartphones labeled HTC Titan and HTC Radar. These are launched in UK market loaded with Windows 7.5 OS. HTC had unveiled this line up in last August and made its way well ahead of global mobile phone manufacturing major, Nokia. We may expect similar range of phones from Nokia by the end of this year.
HTC Titan along-with entry level HTC Radar hit the smartphone retail stores in UK. These are also made available for online purchase on Clove and Phones 4U. HTC Radar comes with 3.8 inch screen with 5 mega pixel camera and 1 GHz processor. It has become quite common to find smartphones with 1 GHz processor in order to deliver swift and very high quality resolution. As these phones are used for capturing high resolution pictures and videos of high quality besides running useful and powerful mobile applications, it necessitates equipping smartphones with high end processors. HTC Radar can be compared with ZTE’s Windows 7.5 powered Mango series, Tania. Tania comes with 4.3 inch screen display and 1 GHz processor. It comes with 5 MP auto focus camera and 4 GB of memory.
Let us check the high end features of the Windows 7.5 based Mango series, HTC Titan:
- The phone is propelled by 1.5 GHz processor which beats out some notepads which are still running on 1 GHz processors.
- The 4.7 inch LCD touch screen display can deliver display of 800 x 480 pixels.
- It has 1.3 MP front facing camera and 8 MP camera on the back side.
- You can shoot high definition video at 720p.
- The phone comes with 512 MB RAM.
By using this high end phone from HTC, you will be able to carry on many operations that you generally perform using your laptop. You can run data driven applications, thrilling high speed internet games, and record high quality videos and easily participate in video chat with your friends. The phone enables you connect and share with social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. You can perform secure online transactions using this high end phone. If you are going for Smartphone range of phones for the very first time, you may reflect on HTC Titan as this phone offers features and capabilities similar to that of HTC Sensation XE.
HTC Titan brings you multitasking capability of traditional windows based OS that we get on computers. The multitasking works between freeze and resume modes as performed on iPhones. Camera API and Xbox Live support are other noteworthy features on windows 7.5 based Mango series of smartphones. It is expected that with the launch of Mango series phones by Nokia in the coming months, windows based smartphones may encroach android dominated smartphones, not completely but to some extent.