For this time Smartphone head o head comparison, we will present you with a big matchup between the popular Samsung Galaxy S2 against the new HTC Titan, which is running on the latest Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ update. Both of them posses impressive specifications, but there’s always a winner in a comparison. The question is which one? Let’s find out after the jump.
The first spec to compare is the phones form. HTC Titan has 131.5×70.7×9.9mm, 160g of dimension and weight while the Samsung Galaxy S2 has 125.3×66.1×8.5mm, 116g. Unlike what its name suggests, the appearance of HTC Titan was not as imposing as people would imagine. The HTC Titan presents the same usual style to other HTC phone with a traditional ‘candy-bar’ shape. It has a form of neat rectangle with rounded corners, a shiny black border round the touchscreen as well as a relatively smooth and minimalist back panel.
Well, it’s not by any means telling that the HTC Titan style wasn’t good. It’s actually quite nice looking and never been jarring or too loud to the eyes. However, if you are looking for something more out-of-the-box, bolder and innovative, this kind of style might get you bored.
The handset seems thin enough at 9.9 mm, which make it sleek and elegant. However HTC decision to put on a 4.7-inch touchscreen on the device, make the rest of HTC Titan proportion larger than its competitor. The larger width and height as well as the use of aluminum unibody construction give a sides effect in form of considerably heavier handset than Samsung Galaxy S2.
In the meantime the Samsung galaxy S2 offers a much lighter device with only 116g. The feather-light weight can be achieved by the use of mostly plastic materials. This isn’t without any side effect though as the use of plastics material tend to make the device more flimsy and looks cheaper than it actually is.
As for its style and design, the Samsung Galaxy S2 comes up with the usual style of Galaxy Series. A style that now becomes universally well-known thanks to the successful campaign of iPhone and the previous Galaxy S itself. With the thickness only at 8.5 mm, the Samsung Galaxy S2 looks by far more striking and sleeker than the HTC Titan. To add a little point of attraction, Samsung Galaxy S2 also sports a rather racy mesh-like back panel to jazz things up a bit.
Verdict: HTC Titan’s build looks more reliable and solid however it comes with the cost of heavier device. In the meantime the Samsung Galaxy S2, despite looked more flimsy than the HTC Titan offers a more preferable design, at least for us. We prefer the Samsung Galaxy S2 to HTC Titan in this round comparison.
The second spec to compare is the phones’ display setup. Both of the handsets are equipped with some state of the art display technologies. The Samsung Galaxy S2 for example, is sporting the impressive Samsung’s own Super Amoled that ensures its users to have more enhanced colors, brightness and power efficiency of the display. The Korean’s produced device is equipped with 4.3-inches capacitive touchscreen at 800×480 pixels of screen resolution and 217ppi of pixels density with features include multi-touch control input, gyroscope and accelerometer sensors for screen orientation. In addition the Galaxy S2’s screen is made of Gorilla Glass to makes sure it well protected from scratches it also comes with the preloaded TouchWiz UI user interface (UI) overlaid on the Android operating system.
On the other hand the HTC Titan comes with a slightly larger screen with a 4.7-inch Sony S-LCD screen at the same resolution with the Galaxy S2 at 800×480 but with a smaller rate of pixel density at only 199 pixels-per-inch (ppi). Display features are almost the same with the Galaxy S2 though there is no Gorilla Glass protection for the HTC Titan’s screen.
Verdict: It’s really an exhibition of the high-end display technologies from both manufacturers. While the HTC Titan offers a bigger screen, the Samsung Galaxy S2 comes up with a higher ppi rates which means a sharper picture quality. With the inclusion of Gorilla Glass protection the Samsung Galaxy S2 display setup is arguably more preferable in this round comparison.
The third spec to compare is the phones’ storage setup. The HTC Titan offers it users with a decent 16GB of onboard storage. The device also comes with quite decent 512MB of RAM to help the processor in dealing with the data. The 16 gig of space offered by HTC for this device is likely to be able to store most of your desired apps. However the inexistence of any card support on this handset could become the fatal flaw when you need a few extra spaces as well as hindered the phone’s transferability.
On the other hand the Samsung Galaxy S2 offers a much more impressive storage setup than its competitor. It comes with two variants of internal storage capacity, 16GB or 32GB which are a lot of spaces to store your apps and media files. The Galaxy S2 also comes with 1GB of RAM to help the processor work on the routine tasks. To makes the lead even further, the Samsung Galaxy S2 also provides the much needed card support up to 32GB, with 8GB of already included to the selling package.
Verdict: The Samsung Galaxy S2 clearly winning this round comparison by miles. The HTC Titan 16GB internal storage capacity is decent but it’s quite small compared to the 32GB of Galaxy S2. Moreover the Samsung Galaxy S2 offers higher RAM spec and the availability of Micro SD card slot. Way to go Samsung.
The fourth spec to compare is the phones’ processor setup. Both phones processor setup could be considered as a luxury given their powerful nature. The Samsung Galaxy S2 is powered with a 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 dual core processor running on the Exynos chipset combined with a Mali-400MP graphics processing unit (GPU) to deal with visuals stuff.
On the other hand the HTC Titan sports a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Scorpion technology single core processor. The power plant running on a MSM8255 Snapdragon chipset with Adreno 205 GPU deals with visuals tidy bit.
Similar high level of performance could be expected from each processor despite the difference between clock speed and number of cores these handsets offer. It can be happened because the Windows Phone 7 is specifically optimized for a 1GHz minimum on single core. Thus the 1.5GHz power plant of HTC Titan should be capable of delivering some pretty slick stuff on the fray. Meanwhile the Android operating system used by the Samsung Galaxy S2 benefits from the brute force approach through the dual core power plant.
Verdict: Generally both processors are more than capable to handled, intense multi-tasking, game usage, etc. However the uses of dual core processors and a more impressive GPU give the Samsung Galaxy S2 more edge when it come to mobile gaming. Samsung galaxy S2 wins by the slightest margin in this round comparison.
The next round comparison arguably is the most interesting, comparing each phone operating system. On one hand Samsung Galaxy S2 runs on the most recent Google’s Android platform for smartphone the 2.3 Gingerbread. While on the other hand the HTC Titan uses the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 Mango.
Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ update is one of the most anticipated update this year. People are curious of how much the update will improve the Microsoft’s relatively new Windows Phone 7 operating system. Well, the answer will be really much. It is reported that the new Mango update offers more than 500 tweaks and changes to the OS. Therefore you can expect vast improvements in term of functionality as well as a lot of interesting new features after this update.
First, there are improvements in the Live Tiles feature. This feature has been well received by the Microsoft Windows Phone 7’s users before thanks to its innovative and user-friendly method to presents information. With the present of ‘Mango’ update, the Live Tiles has given some interesting tune-up to make it even better.
The first noticeable improvement is that the Live Tiles on ‘Mango’ update now display more detailed information than before. In this ne w update, the Live Tiles is not only displaying information or messages from the device’ native apps but only allow the info from third-party app. This can be possible because Microsoft has launched developer APIs to increase third third-party apps involvement. With such of update the Live Tiles in Mango now could a scrolling ticker of all your events for the rest of the day with full clock and calendar information even before a diary app’s Live Tiles might display your next appointment.
The next most noticeable improvement is that the OS update is now really integrated than ever. With the new Mango update you’ll get the convenience to get to everything you want with only one tap or swipe. The Mango update gives much attention to Social Networking integration with the availability of native apps for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in the system.
There is also the interesting ‘People’ hub. It’s an interesting feature that combines all methods of communication into continuous threads. It’s including amongst others social networking like Facebook, Twitter, as well as instant messaging, email and text. One of the usable functions of this feature is that it will notify you when your contacts are online across mediums. This will come in handy to decide which kind of medium is more effective to reach the desirable contact.
Another functional element on the People Hub that will likely come in handy is how the feature handles the name. The People hub allows you create groups of your favourite contacts and subsequently combined the contacts’ all Tweets, messages, texts, Facebook updates and so on. By creating the groups, then you can also sending message out to all members of a group across multiple mediums at once. It’s really smart and convenience way to help you being active in your social circle.
In addition you can decide by your own whether you want to combines or separates your email accounts to your inboxes. To prevent the risk of double booking or events at the same time, the Mango update will also smartly check incoming mail for event invitations and check any against your calendar info while then will stick a warning into the text if it happened to contradict with your other schedule.
On the other hand different with the Microsoft’s Windows 7 Mango, the Google’s Android Gingerbread doesn’t offer the same level of system optimization or integration. However the performance is still way better than the previous version Froyo with a lot of features addition as well as slicker and more intuitive user interface.
One noticeable improvement of it for example is the touch keyboard enhancement. The user of the previous android version must be familiar with the unfriendly, chugs and stutters touch keyboard. Well, in this version it’s finally fixed.
The Gingerbread is also better in term of multi tasking performance. While the previous version presents decent multi-tasking performance, the Gingerbread brings it to the next level, with a faster performance. The Gingerbread also provides a useful app management menu that gives you full control to every application running on the device. For you who don’t want to involve too much in the apps management, no need to worry because it will automatically shut down any running apps if it start to taking up too much phone’s resources.
If there is any minus of this operating system, it is the browsing performance that could be better. The speed is average and there is no tab functionality. You also will be disappointed when you know that the scroll and zoom controls are unresponsive, however for this issues you could rely on third party browsers that could easily solve the problem.
Verdict: Android Gingerbread is still one of the most reliable, functional and interesting OS available in the market today, at least until the arrival of Ice Cream Sandwich. However with the presence of the new ‘Mango’ update, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 offers a great deal of excitement to its user. We prefer for the Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ for now, so it’s a win for the HTC Titan in this round comparison.
The fifth spec to compare is the phones’ optical setup. As a high end device each phone is equipped with considerably impressive optical setup. Both phones sport 8-megapixel primary at 3264×2448 pixels resolution. The devices are also equipped with secondary camera; in this case the Samsung Galaxy S2 goes ahead with a better 2-megapixels secondary camera while the HTC Titan settles with only a 1.3-megapixels snapper.
The HTC Titan offers features such as autofocus, touch focus and geo-tagging, digital zoom, as well as a dual-LED setup. On the other hand the Samsung Galaxy S2 doesn’t offer digital zoom but instead provides autofocus, touch focus, geo-tagging image stabilization, panoramic capture and face and smile detection features as well as an LED flash. Both phones’ optical setup also offers video calling and video light features as well as video capture at 720p HD for the HTC Titan and both 720p HD and 1080p HD for the Samsung’s Galaxy S2.
Verdict: With the almost similar snapper specifications, the devices’ video capture quality becomes the deciding factor in this round comparison. Samsung Galaxy S2 offers higher video capture quality than the HTC Titan, thus it wins this round comparison.
Final Verdict:
The HTC Titan fought the comparison battle well, offering high-end stuff all the way to the end. However it’s still the Samsung Galaxy S2 which dominating this comparison battle thanks to the impressive heavyweight hardware setup. It’s a well earned win for the Samsung Galaxy S2.
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