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hey guys it's Brandon in the mid front pocket now calm the HTC Titan is the first Windows Phone 7 device to come out with a faster than 1 gigahertz processor it's got a 1.5 gigahertz processor it's a Qualcomm Snapdragon does that mean it's smoking fast in this video we're going to find out we're also going to cover the software on this device talk about web browsing speed and all that good stuff relating to software let's get to it the HTC Titan is a big device as we found out in the hardware review and we'll put a link up on the video now and at the end of the video if you want to jump back and see everything about specifications and size and all that good stuff it's got that 4.7 inch screen which is absolutely huge but largest we've ever seen for Windows Phone 7 and it really brings video and pictures to life but it's also a little bit of tiny bit grainy if you have very good eyesight because the pixel density is low what HTC did is they stretched a screen with the same number of pixels effectively making the pixels bigger but again it's not that big of a deal unless you have incredibly good eyesight and you can see pixels usually on whatever phone you're using right now so let's talk about Windows Phone 7 here and talk about how fast this device is in terms of web browsing and gaming and all that good stuff Windows Phone 7 is always fast so the 1.5 gigahertz processor is just icing on the cake it's of course not clocking at the full 1.5 gigahertz at all times you just have that extra 500 megahertz for when your device demands it previous Windows Phone 7 devices all of them were clocked at 1 gigahertz so again you get that incremental 500 megahertz there so of course Windows Phone 7 buttery smooth this is the mango version so we get fast app switching when we tap and hold the back button plus we get a lot of little tiny enhancements pretty much everywhere one of my favorite here is is the Scout feature so wherever you are it will pull up a map of places to eat these places to drink things to see things to do places to shop and highlights just a really cool feature here that makes using the device all that more interesting especially when you travel and you're trying to find the nearest place to grab a bite for example let's go back to the Start screen of course if we select swipe to the right we get the new search tool and so we can search for HTC apps for example and here are three HTC apps that come on the device and we can go to the HTC hub you've seen this before just a really pretty weather display that shows you the forecast and you can click on various days and get a more granular forecast and if we go back over here and search again we will see the other HTC apps like HTC watch I got to tell you the 4.7 inch screen makes watchin videos really fantastic and the the fact that the loudspeaker on the Titan is extraordinarily loud compared to other devices makes it all the better we just wish that there was a kickstand on this device because you really want to prop it up on a table a lot maybe you're showing your friend a YouTube video or you're using HTC watch to rent and on-demand movie so here's HTC watch got that beautiful Metro interface and we're just kind of flipping around on trailers and what we can do is click on a trailer and we can watch it and of course if you have HTC watch you're able to download and rent on-demand movies for three or four bucks depending on the title and as you can see the quality is great the sound is great a fantastic device for watching movies really smooth really high FPS here everything looks good the colors are crisp and clear with the super LCD screen they did a good job with the display and so let's go back to the Start screen now we're gonna get into some gaming so let's go down to games you know with with a higher speed processor you should see improvements in gaming so let's go to fruit ninja and see if we see some good things there and you can watch this in full time to see how fast it is it's relatively speedy a little bit choppy at times oddly so it's pretty smooth it doesn't seem to be as smooth on an FPS basis then say you get on Android or iOS but it's still quite good so let's go back let's play another game real quick just you can get a sense for them the gaming prowess here so we'll go into games let's play kromagg rally kind of a classic racing game one of the first to come out in the era of apps by game all right here we go let's play some kromagg so quite smooth not a dramatic improvement over what you get on say a Samsung Focus or an HTC surround you really get to experience the faster speed when you're in the web browser we're going to jump into that next and you can get a sense for how fast things get in the web browser because they get very very fast certainly so let's jump into the web browser here and it's gonna open Engadget let's close the tabs and start fresh and we're going to bring out the galaxy s2 which in our tests has the fastest web browsing performance we're actually going to run it on opera mobile because Opera Mobile has better performance than the stock browser in most cases so we're really going to put the HTC Titan up against the best of the best so let's go to engadget.com and we'll just go to HD engadget.com since it's there in the memory and we'll get this guy pointed there too there we go let's see which gets there faster both over the same Wi-Fi network it looks like we got a little stutter there and we'll actually have to bring this to the desktop version ok now we're on the same page so we can move down the page on both see very buttery smooth let's get to the same image and do a pinch to zoom very smooth on the galaxy s2 extremely smooth on the the Titan it is like a butter if I can borrow that analogy and we're going to click on this headline at the same time see which is faster and they're both off a little bit slower on the first response on the Titan and watch the progress here and here okay the galaxy has to finish first there here comes a Titan not too far behind actually you can flip flick down the page and we can see all of the different images you can zoom in very smooth indeed very big browsing experience here on the Titan thanks to that large display let's zoom in and get another try speed boom okay galaxy has to finished first here pinch-to-zoom very smooth pinch-to-zoom not as smooth actually as the Titan it's just it's just incredible how smooth it is on the Titan that feels potentially better than the iPhone even which kind of invented this pinch-to-zoom thing but just very very smooth let's do one more link here and to test the speed before we declare a winner here in the web browsing performance category at the same time gonna watch a progress bar up here and down here finished first on the galaxy s2 not too far behind on the Titan so the Titan is absolutely no slouch when it comes to web browsing when you get the page actually loaded that's where the Titan really shines that's where things get extremely fast the pinch-to-zoom is fantastic moving around the page to go into landscape for an even wider view it just it gets even better than that because you can see more more width there so fantastic web browsing performance definitely that 1.5 gigahertz processor gives it a leg up on say other Windows Phone 7 devices that have a one gigahertz processor so high marks indeed for web browsing on the HTC Titan the large screen makes it even better because you can just see so much on the screen in such a large area that's something else we want to cover is the camera because HTC has done some unique things to the camera who launched the camera through the camera app but why not just press the dedicated camera button here on the side and you've seen I've pressed it and nothing's happened well finally something's happen a little bit of a delay there when you press the camera button even when you're inside of the camera application I'll show you an example let's take a box here it's the Kin box and we'll take a picture of it and I've pressed it it's got a little bit of a leg and you really didn't see it right there but there have been a lot of missed moments because of shutter lag I think it just has something to do with the button on the tight but who knows maybe it's a software thing we've got some cool feature so we can switch to the front-facing camera so hey how you doing let me go back to the rear facing camera we can go into panorama mode which is really well done actually and this is kind of an HTC thing it's a panorama shot so I'm going to move the camera up so you can see what that looks like so just a really crude demonstration here you'll line it up with the horizon you press the button you say hold you move it to the next dot and it will automatically take the picture when it's arranged at the next dot and before you know it you get a really cool panorama you can actually show you one I've taken already and so here's a panorama I took earlier just look at how beautiful the color is the sky is crisp and blue the trees are green it does a really good job with panoramas photo quality in general is actually kind of mediocre which is which is a shame because HTC really touts the camera on the Titan it's 8 megapixels it's got autofocus it's got all the bells and whistles but when it gets down to it the photo quality isn't that good the 720p video quality is is mediocre as well you'll see full camera and and picture samples in the upcoming review on pocketnow.com be sure to check this site for that so overall the Titan is a great Windows Phone 7 device it's fast just like every Windows Phone 7 device the fastest mango device you can buy right now it'll be out on AT&T in the US but if in your in the UK or in Europe you can buy it unlocked right now for about 410 British pounds which is around 650 dollars you can get it over at clove cote UK if you liked this video please give us a thumbs up and be sure you watch out for the four of you on pocketnow.com coming up soon the HTC Titan might very well be the best Windows Phone 7 device out there right now and of course that could change tomorrow thanks for watching that's it for now hmm