Mango showdown: Lumia 800 vs HTC Titan
Summary: Smartphones based on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.5 are arriving, with Nokia's Lumia 800 and HTC's Titan are range-topping handsets. Here's how they measure up against each other.
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Nokia Lumia versus HTC Titan - camera
Camera performance differed more than I expected between the two phones, with the Titan slightly edging out the Lumia's 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss optics-equipped camera, somewhat against my expectations.
The colours on the Lumia were far cooler than the photos taken at the same time and in the same conditions as with the Titan. Somewhat strangely, during testing I could hear the Titan clicking as it attempted to auto-focus before taking a picture.
The Titan also has a front-facing camera, a feature badly missing from the Lumia 800. This means the Nokia smartphone will not be able to take advantage of Microsoft Office Lync integration when it arrives later in 2011.
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The htc Titan has an inbuilt htc sense...it the best windows phone available currently.. :P
The exclusion of expandable memory was seemingly the result of Apple "proving" that people don't want that feature... Microsoft see, Microsoft do...
Whilst i am fond of HTC, as an erstwhile WM owner, I have to hand it to Nokia. They have at least attempted to differentiate their phones from the rest of the pack, albeit in minor cosmetic ways.
Until Nokia start to pump out the cheapo handsets, comparisons betweeen phones will be pretty much a horse of a different colour.