The Design Of HTC Titan

The HTC Titan is aptly named. Measuring 5.2 inches tall by 2.7 inches wide by 0.39 inch thick, it has a very large footprint and seems quite massive in my small hands. It is also quite a hefty phone at 5.6 ounces, though that contributes to the phone's premium feel. Yet, it is relatively thin, and the tapered edges along the back let it cradle comfortably in the hand. In fact, the back and sides of the Titan make up the phone's entire shell. When you remove the casing to access the battery, you're essentially separating out the display and the phone's innards from their metal housing. The result is a streamlined head-to-toe design that looks and feels luxurious.

The reason behind the Titan's impressive size is the large 4.7-inch Super LCD display. It has a WVGA (800x480-pixel) resolution, which is the same resolution as on the HTC Radar 4G. However, because the Titan has a much larger screen, the pixels are a bit more visible, especially so with text. When I browsed Web pages in zoomed-out view, for example, letters were noticeably blocky. Yet, the Titan's screen shines in almost every other respect. The display is visible even at an angle, and the bold graphics of Windows Phone really come to life with the screen's capacity for showing off vivid colors and deep blacks. It's certainly not as rich as the Super AMOLED screens we've seen, but I found it more than satisfactory for most tasks.
The touch screen was really responsive. I swiped and scrolled with ease through Windows Phone's fluid interface, and launching applications took less than a second. The virtual keyboard on the Windows Phone felt intuitive as well--each tap of the finger hit precisely the right key and I didn't find myself relying on autocorrect too often. You also get a proximity sensor and an accelerometer, which appears to kick in quite quickly to shift the view from portrait to landscape and vice versa.
Beneath the display are the standard Windows Phone touch sensor keys for the back, start, and search functions. Along the right are the volume rocker and a camera shortcut key, while the Micro-USB port sits on the left spine. On the top are a 3.5mm headset jack and a power/screen lock key. On the back of the phone are the 8-megapixel camera lens along with a dual-LED flash, while the 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera perches above the display on the upper-right corner.
The HTC Titan comes packaged with an AC adapter, a USB cable, and reference material.