We compare two freshly announced Windows smartphones with the Nokia Lumia 900 facing off against HTC’s Titan II.
The Design
1st: Lumia 900: 127.8x68.5x11.5mm, 160g
2nd:Titan II : 132 x69 x13mm, 147g
Most people like their device sthin and lighter nowdays, the Titan II does look good, but that's not really saying much as, against most of the more diverse and interesting looking competition on the market, it's simply far too bland and does not stand out at all. We yearn for a change from HTC and with the Titan II we are still left wanting.
Nokia, on the other hand, has a bit of energy, style and class to them, the Lumia 900 is far more interesting than HTC’s generic profile. You won’t find softly curving corners in Nokia, instead things are tapered and angular with sharp edges and striking lines.
Nokia easily takes the Form category with its bold design, although is heavier than Titan but the device is slimmer
Display
1st:Lumia 900: 4.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 480x800 pixels, 217ppi
2nd:Titan II :4.7-inches, 800x480 pixels 199PPI
Nokia 900 screen is a little on the small side at 4.3-inches compare to the Lumia 800 screen this time around at 4.3-iches. The resolution is the same 800x480 pixels as its smaller stable-mate and consequently the pixel density is a little lower at 217 pixels-per-inch (PPI), but this is still better than its opponent's offering and should give decently crisp images and video.
Gorilla Glass has been used here so it’ll be quite resilient and it features multi-touch support.
The Titan II has a suitably big touchscreen at 4.7-inches. Again the resolution is 800x480 pixels and again this means the pixel density takes a hit down to 199PPI. It supports multi-touch and uses Sony’s S-LCD technology, which is similar to Samsung’s AMOLED in offering enhanced brightness, colour and power efficiency. Although it has to be said it’s generally not quite as good as AMOLED at pushing out such sharp pictures, in our experience.
Essentially, the Titan II’s display setup is pretty much identical to its predecessor, the original Titan.
Storage
Tie: Lumia 900: 16GB internal storage, no SD card slot, 512RAM
Tie: Titan II : 16GB internal storage, no SD card slot, 512RAM
Nokia’s Lumia 900 has the same memory setup as its predecessor, which means 16GB of internal storage and no card slot, along with 512MB of RAM to boost processing tasks.
Likewise the Titan II has the same setup as the original Titan, which incidentally is also the same as the Nokia Lumia 800 and 900 smartphones.
Engine Room
1st: Titan II : 1.5GHz MSM8255T Snapdragon chipset
2nd:Lumia 900: 1.4GHz MSM8255T Snapdragon chipset
Both phones are based on Qualcomm Scorpion hardware. The Nokia Lumia 900 runs a 1.4GHz clock-speed just like its smaller kin, this time however it uses the MSM8255T Snapdragon chipset, along with the same Adreno 205 graphics processing unit (GPU).
HTC’s Titan 2 has a slightly higher clock-speed at 1.5GHz but uses the same MSM8255T Snapdragon chipset and GPU combination. Being Windows Phone 7 devices, they’ll both be very well optimised so you likely won’t notice they’re single core phones unless you try really hammering them with some hugely intensive games and even then you'll struggle to see any frame-rate drops.
You can expect closely performance from both these handsets.
Operating System
Tie: Lumia 900: Windows 7 ‘Mango’
Tie: Titan II : Windows 7 ‘Mango’
Both phones uses Windows 7 ‘Mango’ handsets and as such will both feature the latest build of Microsoft’s colourful and innovative operating system. Windows Phone runs very smoothly indeed and also has some of the best social networking and contact integration we’ve ever seen, so if you like keeping connected it's a good choice.
This is primarily handled by the People Hub, which lets our create contact groups and aggregates feeds from Twitter, Facebook, instant-messaging, email and SMS texts. It’ll let you message multiple contacts simultaneously across multiple channels, too, so you don’t need to keep hopping between apps.
Camera
1st:Titan II : 16MP rear, 1.3 front, 4640x3480 pixel resolution, dual LED flash and 720p
2nd:Lumia 900 : 8MP rear, 1MP front, 3264x2448 pixel resolution, dual LED flash and 720p
The Lumia 900 packs the same 8-megapixel primary camera as the Lumia 800, complete with a Carl Zeiss lens at 3264x2448 pixel resolution, autofocus, geo-tagging, dual LED flash and 720p video capture.
The only real difference is the Lumia 900 features the addition of a 1-megapixel secondary camera.
On the other hand HTC’s Titan II offers 16-megapixel primary camera with a wide-angle lens, backside-illuminated sensor and a 4640x3480 pixel resolution. It can capture video in 720p HD and features autofocus, dual LED flash, red eye reduction, image stabilization, panoramic shot mode and burst shot mode. There’s also a 1.3-megapixel front-facing secondary camera for video calls and the like.
Considering Nokia has historically dominated the camera phone sphere it now appears to have been trumped at its own game by HTC.
Conclucion
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