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mom hi this lab diversion I'm here with HTC's latest Windows Phone the 4.7 inch Titan HD is well known for its proclivity to work from boy and product names but in case of the Titan the name is more descriptive than aspirational this truly is a massive smartphone not uncomplaining most respons physical footprint is taken up by the bright and beautiful Super LCD display HTC is stirring the buzz around the screen to a minimum and a single piece aluminum frame wraps around the sides and back keeping a device's thickness just below a centimeter the Titan weighs 160 grams but it doesn't feel that heavy the weight is well distributed across the body the combination of relatively slender case and a large Super LCD dominating the front lens the Titan very slick futuristic appearance the last time I was so impressed by large screen handset was when HTC introduced the HD to running windows mobile 6.5 much like the Titan it was a device breaking into a new form factor at 4.3 inches and it almost no bezel around the display another similarity orbited less happy 1 between the hd2 and the Titan is in screen resolution the new 4.7 each device matches its predecessor by offering only WVGA or 800 by 480 resolution and means you see exactly as much content on the Titan as you would on the 3.7 inch radar HDS other member of this new Windows Phone lineup the tiles are makeup Microsoft's Windows Phone interface appear correctly large on the Titan and you can't have the feeling that a larger screen size is going to waste without commensurate increase in resolution which is a shame since the Titan Super LCD display is truly gorgeous to look at and offers outstanding viewing angles the Titan comes pre-loaded with a mango update Windows Phone which is branded wooden number 7.5 but in real terms is close to version 2.0 following the original Windows Phone 7 released last year which were booted Microsoft's mobile OS efforts and started from scratch it adds a new visual multitasking overview mobile hotspot functionality full Twitter integration further demon support messaging threads and a number of enhancements to the built in Bing search engine although it runs a faster a newer 1.5 gigahertz processor the Titan isn't noticeably quicken operation than HD strophe from last year this is because Windows Phones interface has been extremely responsive from the start leaving the benefits of the Titans upgraded processor to be heard elsewhere one such area is in barrel life the new MSM 8255 snapdragon is much more efficient than the previous generation and allows the titan to last for a full 24 hours between recharges the titan is an impressively well-built handsome device with a gorgeous screen that could do with adding a few more pixels the user experience is indistinguishable from other windows phones running the mango update so your list of alternatives isn't short you can try out the radar if you have to more compact dimensions or consider samsung's upcoming Focus s and Focus flash handsets they along with each item will be coming to AT&T in the fourth quarter of this year for an Android alternative check out HTC Sensation XL it has the exact same spec sheet of the Titan just adds a little more RAM and runs HD s latest since 3.5 on top of Android 2.3