HTC Titan 2 Hands On

[TheONEWELL]

My 3rd WP7 and it is the best. Love my Titan. Just wipes the socks off iOS and Adroid. just goes to show customizing and jailbreaking phones doesn't make a phone good. If anyone is experiencing graphics lag on the Titan, its apparently donw to the sound enhancer ?! Turn it off and it should sort it. HTC said they will quickly sort the bug with an update in the near future. WP FTW !

[gamerx262x262x]

Full Skype app coming in april for windows, beta out now in windows marketplace.

[TUN444]

Nokia 808 has 41 megapixel camera :O!!

[TheFCBR80]

is this out in canada?

[KeKeKeilan]

Also they should really get some better screen resolution options. It really sucks watching videos on such a big screen with such bad res.

[KeKeKeilan]

Microsoft kills apple this year. Zune > itunes, W8 >lion, and windows phone > iphone. It's only too bad that windows phones still have so few apps in comparison to android and apple. The ones they do have, however, are fantastic. Just need to get more devs!

[AndoniMoustakas]

Is there anyway I can get this over to Verizon? :(

[TheRofladin]

I have a question. If i buy the Titan II in America, can I change the Language to German?

[AndoniMoustakas]

Its so smooth!!!! Can anyone tell me if Zune pass works on this im sure it does. Lol

[nAcolz]

I want an WP instead of mine iPhone 3GS but I am afraid I won't like it after a while or it will be too bad compared to a jailbroken 3GS on 5.0.1 :(

[theproXLR8R]

go to asifsa.tk they have a very informative review on HTC Titan 2

[XXXCompAssesXXX]

Does anybody hear prefer an HTC phone over a Samsung because I'm going to buy a new phone soon and I want to know.

[moedunny23]

16 megapixels? DAMN

[JamaicanIdler]

If unlocked, can this be used on T-Mobile?

[danielshervheim]

@JamaicanIdler yes, but only on 2G (edge (VERY SLOW, not suitable for streaming movies or music))..... TMO support is the only thing holding me back D:

[lenoxyu]

can you tell me whats wrong with this phone?

[98CJB29]

when did this phone even come out?

[turkmage33]

id like to see a phone with a point and shoot camera

[postalshack]

Held the Titan II in my hands at CES. It's nice, but if I had to pick, I'd go with the Nokia Lumia 900. Feels better in the hand (and more manageable), has better free apps like Nokia Drive, and may cost $100 on a contract.

[CBW0314]

about how much?

[postalshack]

@CBW0314 No official pricing yet.Talk is of $200 on contract, which would be good for an LTE phone.

[CBW0314]

@postalshack thank you very much and what quarter will it come out and with what company? thank you very much!

[postalshack]

@CBW0314 Should be spring and on AT&T, in the US at least. No idea if it'll go beyond that country yet.

[CBW0314]

@postalshack oh darn i am with verizon but thanks so much you are very very helpful

[Electronistadotcom]

@CBW0314 Welcome. Verizon won't do Windows Phone again until it can get 4G LTE, but I think that means something mid-year.

[mike96954]

Existe ese modelo en México?

[flipacholas]

@mike96954 Ni en 5 años amigo...

[111KEVING]

Nice!!!

[HOOKemHORNS8594]

When does this come out

[leabuelo]

as long as htc dont use amoled, or something like clear black from nokia, they're not getting my money

[PERPLHAISE]

yaay Raconteurs in backround!!

[DonnyDon90]

This phone is sexy!! Nicely built!!

[MrKMPWavey]

is there memory card expansion?

[darthmon26]

I hate when people are mad that a company does something they didnt expect them to do and criticise everthing step they take its called learning from mistakes and microsofts doing a good job with their os most of you are just mad that your crappy linux didnt take off and spend every waking moment trashing this microsoft.

By the way microsoft doesnt give a shit about you they won.

[Cujuhatchi]

@darthmon26

I run linux, listen to an ipod, and play xbox. Frankly, I couldn't care less about which one gets ahead.

[Lovetto314]

@darthmon26 While this looks nice. They haven't won anything. The truth is the independent devs, for apps and custom roms, are and probably will always be lacking. In the U.S. there just isn't enough room for 3 major os's, at least not right now. There's one OS (other than Android and iOS) that I as a learning dev would support and that is WebOS,,, Unfortunately they came to the game too late and with pretty crappy hardware, and HP hasn't done much to change this,

[iOSRider4983]

I wish this is already release in our country!

[PizzuPoosa]

WATS UP U ASKED ME....but u never waited for my answer!

[22nappyhead]

Htc titan 2? Who on earth bought the titan 1?????

[HeapsCool29]

720p video is fine it's not like your recording a movie, wvga resolution is fine if you don't like don't get windows phone pretty simple, windows phone doesn't need dual core unlike bug infested android. The 16mp camera is on a fine phone and doens't need changing. If you want a good camera go to the nokia n8 oh wait another bad platform, SHAME for you drogezombie

[BABS7474]

All that and they still didn't have enough sense to increase storage and include the micro SD / macro SD slot.

[drogezombie]

720p recording on the phone that has a 16mp camera? FAIL.

Wvga resolution? FAIL.

Couple of good things about it. More bad than good.

Pros: 16mp, 4G

Cons: Resolution, recording, processor, WP7

They should put the camera on a more worthy phone tbh

[TheChorrizo]

@drogezombie your right this phone might not be perfect but since wp7 is so strict they cant make the phone any better

[ak48you]

@drogezombie Yeah.. i think thats because of single core processor, galaxy nexus and LG thrill record 1080 video with 5mp camera... lol

[theTechnoclast]

@drogezombie Frankly I would prefer 720p and 8MP images that looked great than 1080p and 16MP that looked terrible. Megapixels don't mean anything unless they look good.

[wonhoyoung]

@theTechnoclast i don get why u r saying this when the shots taken by this looks super good. yea i no it aint about the megapixels but when did the camera on this look terrible?

[theTechnoclast]

@wonhoyoung I was commenting about @drogezombie's problem that it only had 720p video recording and thinking that 720>1080p is such a huge jump in quality. It is not. I said that I'd prefer lower resolution video at high quality than just a marketing jump to 1080p. Becuase it looked to me like @drogezombie only looks at the megapixels and 1080p video when judging cameras, and not the actual quality from them.

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@theTechnoclast They do look good. Idk if your brain exists or not...

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@theTechnoclast You know what? Just stick with iPhone, you seem like the type.

[theTechnoclast]

@zomgwtfbbqbagel I like how you didn't actually try to understand what I was saying, and then ask me if my brain exists. Ironic.

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

@theTechnoclast You're referring to a 16 megapixel camera that takes wonderful photos, and saying that if it doesn't have good quality you don't want it. 16 megapixels DOES have great quality, godamn dimwit.

[theTechnoclast]

@zomgwtfbbqbagel What 16 megapixel camera am I referring to? Read the comment, dimwit.

[yfzi]

@theTechnoclast Yeah megapixels are only effective for printing large photos, not for viewing them

[rivengle]

@drogezombie pros: 16mp, 46, WP7

The resolution is higher than your average computer screen, you don't need 1080p video on phones, and the WP runs much faster than android because of the software optimization. The same can be said with the iPhone. Get the fuck out fanboi. I own a Nexus S, I love it, but you just can't compare WP or iOS on specs.

[drogezombie]

@rivengle The resolution is higher than your average computer screen?

ROFL what computer screens are you using? WVGA is 480 x 800. That's tiny. Old pcs have better resolutions than that. It's not that we don't need 1080p on phones, it's that this 2012 and phones need keep up to date specs in order to maintain competition.

"get the fuck out fanboi." LOL I'm a fan of WP7, but not a fan of outdated specs. You need to gtfo. lmao.

[MoodleZone]

16 megapixel camera! wow!

[coulterxo3]

16 megapixels :O

[BABS7474]

windows is really desperately trying to win back customers after their mess with windows mobile.

[oakland002]

i want to see these things in actions, i mean show some program running instead of just scrolling back and forth..

[baraclude]

So these are windows phone? not android?

[MrMurder96]

@baraclude yup

[MrStylorock]

all htc volume control are sucks pls believe me

[Ryan53000]

@I believe its 4g internet connection speed provided by your operator, USA has it but most other countries don't yet :( (hope that helped ^^)

[Ushvin18]

I know I'm behind, but what is LTE?

[MrMurder96]

@Ushvin18 Long Term Evolution, It's just the name of the network they use for data.. Ex. GSM, EDGE, HSPA, Evdo are other network names,. LTE is currently the fastest you can get on a mobile phone.

[MaskedKane95]

so what does this 4g lte thing require?for example I have a 4mb speed,a regular router,and I don't think cafes will have faster in my area,so is there a differance between the titan and the titan2 on 4mb router?because I think I'm getting one

[MrMurder96]

@MaskedKane95 no, 4G lte speeds are obtained when you are using your carriers service, and are not connected to a WiFi router, know what i mean.

[MaskedKane95]

@MrMurder96 so on the router it doesn't differ huh??

[MrMurder96]

@MaskedKane95 no.... you will be getting the same wifi speeds, when connected to wi fi. Adn you will get carrier speeds, when only on carrier service

[tuvok449]

Nokia Lumia 900 is totally better

[kgiuchici]

Steady as she goes!

[fultuc]

battery?

[HeavyMetalBlaster]

@fultuc

1730 mAh battery 1:25

[BustedController]

Steady as She Goes by the Racounteurs 1:55

:D love that song

[o0Mazza0o]

@BustedController I love it to *______*

[bluestarkad17]

i would really like for john to do a comparison between windows phones sold in the US and windows phones sold in Europe....i want to hear his thoughts on the samsunf Omnia 7...the Omnia 7 is so different(hardware wise) from what samsung offers in the states

[wrangleroooo]

why in the fuck is it that big????

[cris178Zune]

@wrangleroooo because its a titan lol

[13JHoward]

Hows the pixel density? I haven't held one myself but I've heard that if you have a good eye, you could see some pixellation ont he main home screen on certain tiles ON THE ORIGINAL TITAN. Does the Titan II have this? How noticeable is it?

[everthesame20]

Good vid. Btw, amazing song @ 1:56 in the background. :)

[14lenhoy1]

i hope the new windows 8 supportes 1080p recording..

[TheTechBroker]

I think both are same HTC Titan 1 and 2..just added 16mp camera and network

[charabolo]

16 mp?! they screwed the iPhone's 4s 8 mp camera..

[cooperdude2009]

16mp camera and he didnt even touch the camera button

what a fag?

[azael831]

16mp and no 1080p?! WTF!!

[MrMurder96]

@azael831 do you not read top comments?

[dontbotherreading]

good shit



[Livedog333]

What a joke.

[mayi360]

Aaron from phone dog said it had 1080p video recording?

[14lenhoy1]

@mayi360 no he didn't..



[TheGlobalRage]

Anyone know what watch Jon wears??

[noggan]

I adjust the volume for the voice and then when the car ad comes its loud as fuck damn man normalize the stuff =(

[spv2291]

This phone is only for AT&T right?

[Duskolo]

forget about megapixels!

what's 500 times more important is sensor quality!

most smartphones today can shoot 50Megapixels but they suck compared to a 5 year old digicam with 3megapixels

[alittleolder]

I would actually like for poor microsoft to get a few marketshares of the phone market.. I like that they are now regarded as the underdogs

[FCBarcelona2tv]

Thumbs up if you noticed there is no 3:32

[halima823]

@FCBarcelona2tv yeah there is o.O

[WeeGee1798]

vs iphone 4s please

[alchemicrb]

@WeeGee1798 Uh huh, keep trolling you apple whore. Just a heads up the 4s is the 4 with an update. But I bet you paid to upgrade anyway.

[ryda4life415]

@alchemicrb lmao!

[WeeGee1798]

@alchemicrb ummm ok , i was asking for a comparison because i want a windows phone. im not a fan boy of any kind so when you jump off Steve Ballmers dick reply to me then.

[alchemicrb]

@WeeGee1798 Ohhhh I see. my mistake.But yeah, I'm not on anyones dick. Sorry but usually with apple fan boys you gotta stand firm. 

[iamedia1]

the 1080p is a ms thing, itll do it, maybe with tango

[poptrunk06]

all these touchscreen phones are the same... dont see what all the hype is about

[ghazanfarghori]

why no video edit tools in wp7?

[IRWBRW964]

the lumia 900 has a better display.

[alzain16]

bro if it didnt have 1080p i would personally slap the makers...it does because another reviewer mentioned it

[janae1132011]

16 mgpx Thats more than my camera ! !

[iBryanC]

Is it 16 megapixels or an unimaginable 60 megapixels?

[AlvinPhilemon]

Sad there's still no NFC. I want a Windows Phone that has NFC NOW! Samsung Focus S and Samsung Omnia W is rumored to have NFC. When a Windows Phone has NFC, I'm immediately buying it. For now, 1st choice is the Focus S. Sent from my Jailbroken iPad 2

[papalolita]

@AlvinPhilemon I have a feeling that WP7 still can't support NFC. Even the cheaper Symbian phones or the Meego Nokia N9 already have NFC.

Which is a shame because NFC transactions will become BIG in the coming years. It's not a gimmick, and it helps to somewhat future-proof your phone.

[AlvinPhilemon]

@TechnologyLover4422 only dual-core processors can handle 1080p video recording. Phones with at least 446MB RAM can support 720p. All Windows Phones have 512MB or 576MB RAM except for the Samsung Focus S, which has 1GB RAM

[smartydix]

Why the fuck would you need a 16 MP camera...

[SuperLee1417]

the question is, will it blend...

[TechnologyLover4422]

@jon4lakers

why doesn't any windows phone have full hd video recording?

[hecl10]

Lumia 900 vs HTC Titan camera fight!!!! right now!!!...XD

[olegnabunyi]

FEATURES: OS: Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Chipset: Qualcomm S2 Snapdragon CPU: 1.5 GHz Scorpion GPU: Adreno 205 Sensors: Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support; Bing Maps Java: No

[lilsobelizard01]

htc titan 2 or iphone 5?

[gsharpshooter80]

I would love to try windows phone 7 but freaken ay it's like the bipolar cousin of apple in that it restricts apps and software limitations rather then hardware changes such as battery, memory, etc. This why I'm a droid guy though I hate all those limits if windows mobile can integrate apps from 3rd party devs get an app store going and the whole 9 then yea I don't see why not try the device!

[Robbsaber02]

You only need 8 megapixels. The quality doesnt only rely on megapixels alone. look at the iphone, 8 megs and outstanding quality. 16meg? wow microsoft really likes "pushing it over the edge"

[ckub5]

@Robbsaber02 Microsoft problem or the oneswho work with them is the lack of onboard memory. For HTC Titan 16 GB aren't even 16 GB( Os requirement, some space to install apps) an HTC quietly brilliant(brilliant my ass) downgraded on purpose it's camera performance(lowered recording bitrate, higher photo compression) to help with smaller memory ...

[NobodysOffTheHook]

I love those live tiles!

[NobodysOffTheHook]

That phone is insane!

[g1981c]

i'm pissed DSLRs are stuck at about 20 megapixels. used to be that DSLRs had 8 megapixels and phones didn't even have one megapixel - by now DSLRs should have 100 or more megapixels but in stead they're letting phones catch up with them - this is bullshit !

[deviantsoul03]

@sbcbaseball15 i know exactly what you feel, but blame WP7 (doesn't support 1080p) not HTC.

[raxater]

Lovely, I want it.

[brianhuber100]

WTH? they just released the titan not too long ago! theyre popping out phones like theres no tomorrow

[JohnWood1993]

wow 16mp and then 720p video? that makes no sense.

[g1981c]

@JohnWood1993 why not ? video is an issue of CPU not camera. because windows phone only can have 1 core CPU you can't expect same performance on video out of it.

[Marpookoo1]

was i the only person that thought wtf is this guy trippin 16MP camera on a phone at the beginning of the vid?

[despinasse1]

Give it another 5 years.. people wont be needing any cameras no more!

[ZR1Terror]

@Casanova050393 people are still going to buy it and love it. Just watch, I'm really happy with my 720p Samsung Focus S, when I upload videos to YouTube they almost look like 1080p anyways.

[FrozenSteel101]

People, people, it doesn't have 1080p video recording because that requires a dual-core processor at the least. And dual-cores aren't supported yet by Windows Phone.

[blake3443]

@FrozenSteel101 actually, no. 1080p require a certin level of performance, it does not require two cores. I am sure that if you spend the space that would be used to the 2nd core on increaing the instuctions per clock for the ARM chip it would be more then capable (but yes they wouldn't do this as ARM is for good power usage, and this method would destroy it)

[orangeteax1789]

@orangeteax1789 I mean 0:09

[gaphoogys]

wow really, just 720p recording, you could at least make it 1080p

[orangeteax1789]

0:o9 did he say 60 mp

[Casanova050393]

wtf is up with 2011 specs being released in 2012...the competition is getting soft

[brad1445]

So now that you have a Zune phone that's all we look at? What do they have 3 percent market share?

[Tramain1987]

zzzzz

[kmann1994]

Didn't the Titan come out like 2 months ago? And there's already a Titan 2??

[qntntech]

Titan I=8 megapixel camera..... It makes sense to make the Titan II to be 16 because 8*2=16.... I guess its basic math

[TreeHau5]

@qntntech almost no phones that are in a series have doubled in mega pixels, like the Galaxy S series or the Droid Incredible series.

[sbcbaseball15]

16 mega pixels and no 1080p video?

[TheNewGuyOnYT]

@sbcbaseball15 Windows Phone Mango does not support dual core.

And you cannot have 1080p recording on a single core device. :)

Single core does not support 1080p recording.

[RaedVS]

@TheNewGuyOnYT Thanks you really answered my wonder .. :)

[Brianck1971]

@TheNewGuyOnYT single core does not support 1080p ? Thats bullshit. The nmuber of cores a cpu has has nothing what so ever to do with the res of the phones video.

[TheNewGuyOnYT]

@Brianck1971 Single core does not have the multitasking abilities to render a 1080p video , it will become really low or crash.

[Brianck1971]

@TheNewGuyOnYT Do u have a brain ?? There are HD camcorders with single core processors. Multitasking existed a long time before multi core processors. Multitasking has nothing what so ever to do with HD video.

[TheNewGuyOnYT]

@Brianck1971 DUDE, if you dont know about it don't argue.

HD camcorders are made for video recording , and the OS etc. of ANY camera is not as flashy as the phone's. Phones need more ram to function properly, as they need more multitasking capabilities to run the OS smoothly. So dont talk bull shit , if you dont know what your saying. Name ONE Windows phone or actually ANY single core phone with 1080p recording. Reply with the name , and if you dont , I already know your ans.

[skystealth22]

@sbcbaseball15 wp7 does not support 1080p video yet..

[ultraphoennix]

@skystealth22 ohh crap

[alzain16]

@sbcbaseball15 it does 1080p

[ManuelMO11]

Sony Xpiria Ion!!!!!!!!!!!

[carlosmashiado2]

i'm waiting for the Titan A.E

[rockindoodcm]

It would be cool if they added an option to have a wallpaper with transparent tiles.

[CityFlashLights]

Why not call this the hd8 that would make more sense, wtf the titan is 3 months old...

[nlsnestevez]

the titan has about 3 months released to public and there is already a second version?

[ITBerufe]

Like that :) just this way iOS - WP - Android

[tastetherainbow4321]

megapixels are only good for taking bigger pictures

[phandra0197]

who heard steady as she goes in the background

[iTekkidHD]

whats the price of it?