HTC London Event Summary - it was loudly brilliant

Notice the "loudly" replacement of "quietly" in the title? The London HTC consequence was certain enough a nighttime club with some phones displayed. Three hours after and my ears are however ringing the bells louder than always, merely was it a well worth visit? Absolutely. I was joined past Jay Bennett (our app developer) forth with ii strays we found on the street, Alex Dobie and Richard Devine from Android Central.

While just existence about 2 upcoming Windows Phone Mango devices, the HTC Titan and Radar, the upshot was full of enthusiasm, music, gratuitous drink and a cracking presentation. Overall it was a superb evening where we conversed with Microsoft and HTC employees, experienced the new handsets for ourselves and began to get drunkard in the process for free. Caput on past the suspension for the round-up.

Unfortunately, the venue was in the basement of the Victoria House and thus was extremely tight and compact. Nosotros were told in a presentation that HTC has sold 21.eight one thousand thousand handsets, that the company respected customers and that they had a massive surprise for the audience.

HTC London Event

Multiple units of both the HTC Titan and Radar were on display throughout the venue. Although we had to fight hundreds of people, we did manage to barge our way through and get some hands-on with both devices (videos will come after this post).

We were able to confirm tethering support being present in the builds loaded on the demo handsets, but equally we mentioned previously this volition more-than-likely exist upwardly to carriers. Everything y'all'd expect is nowadays with Twitter (both devices) and LinkedIn integration likewise as all the other Mango goodies. Since the event was surrounding these ii handsets, let's fissure into a quick run through.

HTC London Event - Titan

Let's start with the HTC Titan, which is an absolute beast. Information technology's groovy to see HTC actually starting to pump up the hardware with a massive LCD screen, great camera and more. Advertisement the HTC Titan as the "Windows Phone powerhouse" will surely attract the attention of users on other platforms with its unique style and quality.

The back cover of the device really removes entirely from the screen, it's as though they simply cut it in half directly down the middle, and it's thin - very sparse (simply under 1cm). We compared the brightness and sharpness of the super LCD screen against our Samsung Omnia 7 handsets, which left us in shock and awe every bit the Super AMOLED looked irksome and banal compared to the brilliant 4.seven" monster.

A reminder of the Titan'southward specifications:

1.5 GHz processor
4.7" screen
16GB storage
512 RAM
Gyro sensor
viii megapixel camera with F2.2 lens, dual LED flash, and BSI sensor
Front-facing i.3 megapixel camera

HTC London Event - Radar

The HTC Radar is a lower spec choice for users with a more than affordable price tag. While this may put some potential buyers off, don't be fooled - it'southward not a inexpensive phone past whatsoever ways. A unibody encases the feature rich Mango handset, which sports a three.viii" screen with a 1Ghz processor. Again, like the Titan, the quality of the screen is incredible, specially when comparing with 1st generation devices.

Specifications of the Radar:

1 GHz processor
3.eight" screen
unibody design
8GB storage
512 RAM
five megapixel camera with F2.2 lens, single LED wink, and BSI sensor
Front-facing VGA megapixel photographic camera

So, permit's pass it over to y'all guys. What do you make of the two new handsets? Keep an middle out for our easily-on videos coming up shortly.

HTC London Event

Cheers goes out to Alex Dobie for helping us with these pics!

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