HTC Radar Windows Mango Smartphone

At a Launch event at London HTC has launched a couple of new smartphones: HTC Radar and HTC Titan, running the Microsoft’s latest OS called the Mango. This will bolster up the struggling Microsoft that is finding it hard to get a decent market share from Apple iOS and Google Android. With this launch HTC now becomes the second company to feature the Mango OS in its smart phones after Fujitsu Toshiba mobile communications announced the same for their IS12T. The smart phones will be available to HTC and Microsoft fans across Asia and Europe from the next month. Here we have reviewed HTC Radar on multiple fronts to give you a glimpse about this new Microsoft Mango OS based smart phone from HTC.

Size and Design:

HTC mobile usually feature innovative designs with premium materials and Radar is no different. Similarly like the Desire and Sensation it features moulded aluminium body. Radar doesn’t have the slimmest of design infect it is a decently large device being 120.5mm long, 61.5mm wide and10.9mm in depth.

Display:

It features a 3.8 inch S-LCD capacitive TFT touchscreen having the resolution of 400*800 pixels and 16M colour support. The pixel density is 246ppi which is on the higher side so you can expect the display to be quiet sharp. The display is a gorilla glass one and it features multi-touch input method, there’s a also proximity sensor for auto turn-off, accelerometer for auto rotate and gyroscope sensor.

Camera:

It comes with a 5MP autofocus camera with F2.2 Lens, LED flash, the maximum image resolution is 2592*1944pixels. It record HD 720p video at 30fps. There is also a secondary VGA camera in the phone.

Processor and OS:

Radar features 1 GHz Scorpion processor powered by Adreno 205 GPU on a Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon chipset and runs Microsoft Mobile Windows 7 OS (Mango).

Storage Capacity:

It has 8GB of internal memory and there’s no card slot for memory expansion which would rather be a disappointment for the fans. RAM is 512MB.

Connectivity:

It has 3G support apart from Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and EDR, Wi-FI, and micro USB 2.0.

Battery:

The 1520mAH battery is capable of providing up to 330hrs of stand by time and up to 7hrs of talk time.

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