HTC Titan II

In many ways, the HTC Titan II looks like the original Titan . But HTC did an excellent job of improving the design of the large screen of Windows Phone with the addition of a textured surface to the camera buttons and volume, aligned the 3.5mm jack for the best connection to the headset. The layout of the buttons on the Titan II is the same as on the Titan. At the top there is a power button and a 3.5mm jack, on the right are the camera and volume buttons, and at the bottom left you can find the Micro USB port . Located behind the camera and speaker, the microphone is located at the base of the device. Housing HTC Titan II cast, without battery cover (the battery can not be removed). Below there is a removable panel, under which you can insert a SIM-card. Copper contacts are fitted on the cover, so without it the device will not work (as on the HTC Radar ). If the Titan II is frozen, and the battery needs to be pulled, removing this cover will give the same result. The front of the device is a 4.7 " Super LCD screen . Compared to Titan , the Titan II looks a bit brighter. The colors are juicy, and the screen responds perfectly to the touch. Another nice improvement is that the lower part of the front of the apparatus has not undergone a curvature.

The Titan II screen is absolutely identical to the Titan screen: 4.7 inches diagonal, resolution is 800 x 480 dots, which gives a density of 199 dots per square inch. Of course, such a big screen does not look very good with such a relatively low resolution, but HTC is not guilty here, it's all about the software limitations set by Microsoft. The screens of competing smartphones with a similar physical size have already reached a resolution of 720 pixels vertically and have reached a density of 315 pixels per square inch. The Titan II screen suffers from increased pixelation of the image, but to its credit, the viewing angles are very high, and the saturation of the image is above average. The screen has excellent visibility outdoors on a sunny day, but only when setting the maximum brightness value. The decrease in brightness leads to the fact that the picture is not visible. If you are not satisfied with the noticeable pixelation of the screen, you better wait for the release of Windows Phone Apollo (it is expected that support for higher screen resolutions will be added to this version of the OS), or look for a smartphone with a smaller diagonal.

Titan II works with a single-core 45 nm Qualcomm Snapdragon processor (MSM8255) with a clock frequency of 1.5 GHz, an Adreno 205 video chip and 512 MB RAM . This is one of the most powerful processors among the Mango-smartphones, however, the original Titan is also equipped with it. Good or bad, but the speed of all smartphones on Windows Phone is about the same: the platform does not support dual-core processors, so new device models work at about the same speed as the old ones, and this will continue until Microsoft changes the restrictions presented to manufactured smartphones. In fairness it should be noted that Windows Phone OS is optimized for comfortable work with moderate energy consumption. Powerful smartphones are in demand mostly among geeks, and the power of the Titan II will be more than enough for the average user. On the smartphone, the zoom of the pictures works perfectly, the screen responds to any press instantly, and the applications open faster than on other models of WP-smartphones. When performing tasks intensively using the processor, the back of the smartphone heats up, but only slightly, not to the extent that it is uncomfortable to hold the device in your hand. Windows Phone , unlike Android , is a little benchmark test, there are only two good ones: WP Bench and SunSpider . All WP-smartphones are about the same, so the results of these tests are almost the same.

There are quite a few settings in the Titan II camera menu: ISO, panorama, macro focus, smile and face detection, white balance, red eye removal, stabilizer, freeze removal, etc. In addition, you can adjust the brightness, contrast, sharpness and saturation. . There is also a continuous shooting mode that allows you to take 5 shots in a row, and adjust 18 scenes, including for automatic shooting. The pictures taken in bright sunlight turned out to be a bit overexposed (this is the trouble of the cameras of almost all smartphones), and the pictures taken indoors were very good. The camera copes well with shooting in low light without a flash, but autofocus in this case does not always work correctly and there is excessive noise. With the f / 2.2 lens installed in the original Titan, the shots would surely get better. Most of the pictures turned out to be highly detailed. Using the flash, which is enough to illuminate the entire room, the camera very accurately captures colors. Macrofocus works perfectly in all conditions. Camera Titan II makes great shots, but to call it the best among smartphones would be an exaggeration (the best camera - the Nokia N8). In fact, it differs little from the camera HTC Amaze 4G. This indicates that the increase in the number of pixels did not affect the quality of the shooting. Overall, however, the Titan II takes great pictures.

• Dimensions 132 x 69 x 10.2 mm
• Weight 173 g
• Screen diagonal 4.7 inches
• Screen resolution 800 x 480 pixels (199 ppi)
• Screen Type S-LCD
• 1730 mAh battery
• 1.5 GHz, single-core, Qualcomm MSM8255T (Snapdragon S2) processor
• Adreno 205 video chip
• RAM 512 MB
• Built-in 16 GB memory
• Removable memory card support No
• Main camera 16 MP, f / 2.6
• 1.3 megapixel front camera
• 720p HD video recording
• NFC No
• Communication Quadband GSM / EDGE; HSPA + 850/1900/2100; LTE 700/1700
• LTE, HSPA + network speed
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• Mhl no
• Shared Internet (tethering) Yes
• FM radio Yes
• SIM Card Standard

• HTC Titan II on the official website
• Detailed blog about the HTC Titan II in Russian
• Crash Test HTC Titan II Mobile Phone
• Russian translation of a detailed review from theverge.com (inaccessible link)