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HTC announces 2 new Window Phones: “Titan” and “Radar”

Sep 1, 2011 12:12 pm by Kip Kniskern | 5 comments

HTC announced two new Windows Phone devices today, the aptly named Titan, and the Radar. Notable in the two phones is the inclusion of front facing cameras, although with no immediate applications to take advantage of them to start (aside from Windows Phones’ camera app, of course).

(image credit: SlashGear)

The Titan, a 4.7” monster, and the silverish Radar, will also come with dock accessories, according to Engadget:

In a post on the Windows Phone blog, Joe Belfiore hints at new capabilities for the now officially announced front facing cameras:

A lot of you have asked us whether Mango will support front facing cameras—and now that these HTC phones have been formally announced, I can confirm officially that Mango does support these. We’ve included support for “switching to FFC” for photo/video shooting into the native camera experience and we’ve added API support to the application platform so ISVs can build all kinds of interesting apps using the FFC. We’ll have more announcements on some of the specific apps that will take advantage of this capability a little later on.

Skype, anyone?

No word yet on timing or carriers, stay tuned…

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Anonymous
Now we are getting somewhere. This is what we have all been begging Microsoft to do…”CATCH UP”. It’s like being in a race. If you see yourself catching up with the other teams, DON’T STOP, KEEP GOING! If you keep going you may have a chance to beat out the other team.
Murani Lewis
HTC is pre-loading Tango on the devices so there is actually an app to take advantage of the FFC.
- Damaster – LiveSide.net
  Just to clarify, “Tango” is actually a third-party video/voice calling service� http://www.tango.me/, not the codename for the next update of WP.
http://www.facebook.com/ashishmohta Ashish Mohta
I wonder why nobody is coming out with a Dual Core Phone while most of the competitions are already there.�
Increase processor speed, increasing Battery power and screen size is not what people are really looking for.�
Either Windows Phone is not yet optimized for Dual Core ( Its 2 years and it should have been ) or it is business strategy to get WP8 all those powerhouse features.
Anonymous
Actually, I don’t believe most phone users care about the number of CPU cores. They care about battery life, numbers of apps (I don’t understand that one), ease of use, and call quality (at some folks care about this).
On another WinPhone blog, the comment section went nuts over the fact that HTC has put a bit of its Sense interface on these phones. When you set the phone on the dock, a Sense screen appears with weather and that now very familiar HTC clock. According to the information I’ve seen you can turn this off and it doesn’t show up anywhere else. I was surprised at the level of vitriol. HTC has remained loyal to WinPhone and is the first OEM I’m aware of to produce accessories for their WinPhones. It looks like they worked with Microsoft to put their own bit of differentiation on the phone. I don’t see the harm. Both the Titan and the Radar are appealing to me, but I’d like to see some hands on reviews about the camera and general useability, particularly for something as big as the Titan.