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well this is David with a virgin this is the HTC Titan too it's an AT&T phone it's the successor to the HTC Titan which we reviewed last year and it's mostly the same phone it's a little thicker and because it has such a big 4.7 inch display it's actually kind of hard to hold in one hand especially the power button which is located up top can be really hard to press if you're only holding the phone in your left or right hand it has the same specs mostly as the last phone which worked quite well it has a 4.7 inch Super LCD and it looks nice it has great viewing angles and really deep blacks but it's got the same 800 x 480 resolution which Microsoft mandates for its devices and that's just too low res and especially on a screen this big it just doesn't take advantage of all the screen real estate that's actually there you there are two major upgrades from the Titan to the Titan to the biggest one being the 16 megapixel camera on the Titan too and it's a good camera definitely one of the best we've seen on a smartphone but it's definitely not as good as HTC makes it out to be puts out relatively soft images to the point where it doesn't even seem to be necessarily in focus you can never really find a spot in an image that's really sharp there's a 1.3 megapixel front camera which is basically the same it's decent for what it is but it's really nothing special the other big upgrade from the Titan is the LTE connection which is awesome it's a huge upgrade from hspa+ which 18t has had before it's a pretty fast connection we got about 8 12 megabits down and 12 up in general the performance the device is solid it has a 1.5 gigahertz Qualcomm processor and it works pretty well there's really no lag as you do anything around the operating system and that's again consistent to most windows phones the reception was solid and call quality was pretty decent the speaker phone is not great but the microphone is actually really good and battery life is great the Titan doesn't have a particularly huge battery but it lasts a long time I consistently got a day and a half or more out of the battery before it died really the Titans biggest problem is that runs Windows Phone Windows Phone is a beautiful and elegant operating system and I'm a fan of both of those things and it actually does a number of things especially basics like making phone calls or sending text messages really really well but there are a lot of issues especially with third-party apps there's some scrolling problems and some weird multitasking quirks and the email app has some trouble and even Internet Explorer does a bad job rendering web pages a lot and they're mostly minor things but over time they become increasingly frustrating overall the Titan two is kind of a hard phone to windows phone is definitely a third-place operating system behind iOS and Android and there are great phones for both of those operating systems on AT&T like the iphone 4s or the HTC One X which is coming soon and even if we're committed to buying a Windows Phone device you're probably better off with the Nokia Lumia 900 which is a much better design phone and because Microsoft so controls the user experience and specs the design becomes really the only thing that matters to tighten too is a good phone but unfortunately it's competition and its operating system kind of kill the appeal