Rarely does a gadget’s name quite so well describe its nature, as is the case with the HTC Titan. A huge 4.7-inch display packed into a battleship-strong metal chassis, the TItan is an unapologetic slab ofWindows Phone 7. Question is, can Mango provide sufficient sweetness to balance the Titan’s brutal charms, or are HTC’s big ambitions in for an equally big fall? Check out the full SlashGear review to find out.

Hardware

We can’t fault HTC’s industrial design or build quality: the Titan is one of the company’s most cohesive, solid handsets of the past year. The matte-finish black metal casing and bevelled toughened Gorilla Glass fascia come together beautifully, and the various logos and branding are discrete and thankfully chrome-free. If theSensation XL – the Titan’s Android-based equivalent – is the attention-seeking cousin then the Titan is the reserved, more timeless family member.

It’s undoubtedly a large phone – 131.5 x 70.7 x 9.9 mm and 160g – but the combination of curves and angles in the sides mean it fits into average sized hands reasonably well. Physical controls are limited to power/standby on the top edge – alongside a 3.5mm headphone jack – then a volume rocker and a camera shortcut on the right edge, along with the touch-sensitive back, Start and search keys under the display. A microUSB port does charge and sync duty on the lower left edge, and you get two cameras: 8-megapixels on the back and 1.3-megapixels on the front.
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