HTC have announced yesterday in London two new Windows Phone Mango smartphones. In this article I will talk about the middle range one - HTC Radar. This is an elegant uni-body aluminium device with multimedia options and 3.8 inches screen. The complete technical specifications are:
-- DISPLAY: 3.8-inch Super-LCD capacitive touch 480 x 800 pixels screen
-- CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 GHz processor.
-- GPU: Adreno 205
-- MEMORY: 512 MB RAM.
-- STORAGE: 8GB for internal, microSD card slot up to 32GB.
-- CAMERA: Primary - 5MP led flash camera, video recording up to 720p, F2.2 lens, BSI sensor.
Secondary - VGA, video chat, video calling.
-- CONNECTIVITY: 3G, HSDPA, HSUPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, micro-USB port, 3.5 mm headphone jack, A-GPS.
-- SENSORS: Proximity, Ambient Light Sensor, G-Sensor.
-- BATTERY: Li-Po 1520 mAh
-- MULTIMEDIA: touch sensitive buttons, SRS virtual surround sound, 5.1 surround sound for video.
-- OS: Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.
-- APPLICATIONS: Windows Apps, social networking, HTC Watch, PeopleHUB, Zune, XBOX Live.
I like the Windows Phone, although not that much as Android, because it has the office suite included which is great for document editing. This phone has many related applications like Bing Maps, Zune music services or XBOX live for gaming. What I find important at Radar is the 5.1 surround sound and the dedicated camera button. By the way the camera has F2.2 lens for real life capture and BSI sensor which works great in case of locations with poor quality light. This phone looks so good that I wish it would had Android :). But it does not and will be available in stores starting with October
