Let’s find the winner of the battle of Nokia’s new Lumia 800 against the Taiwan based phone manufacturer, HTC’s Windows Phone running handset which is called with HTC Titan. Both phones come with packing the same operating system, Windows Phone, but which one offers more in term of feature and become friendlier with the users? Let’s cut it short and start comparing them.
1. Form Comparison between Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan
HTC Titan is measured at 131.5×70.7×9.9mm and 160g of weight. The device comes with pretty decent appearance and the generous screen space which pushes right out to the edges of the handset is always acceptable to many people. Apart from that, the device is looked quite elegance as the other HTC smartphones appear.
What has become the device’s obstacle in term of design is there’s no breaking through shape offered by the manufacturer since the Titan still offers typical HTC rounded corners and soft edges.
Apart from the thickness of the phone, there is nothing that capable owned by the device to attract the future users since as it has been written before, the device appears just like the other HTC smartphones.
In the meantime, the Nokia’s Windows Phone running handset, Lumia 800 appears with pretty similar design to another Nokia’s phone which runs MeeGo, Nokia N9. Through this device, Nokia has proven that they still concern about visual style of their device.
Actually, Nokia Lumia 800 does not appear in pretty spectacular shape with offering its pitch black and sinuous curved glass display and its harshly rigid and brightly colored rectangular bodywork. However, through this design, Nokia has made a device with aesthetically appealing. Nokia Lumia 800 is measured at 116.5×61.2×12.1mm and 142g of weight.
So, for this round we give the title to Nokia’s Lumia 800.
2. Display Comparison between Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan
Nokia Lumia 800 comes with packing a 3.7-inch curved glass display which uses a Samsung Amoled capacitive touchscreen and Nokia’s own ClearBlack technology. The display boasts 480×800 pixels of screen resolution and it leads to the screen to give high pixel density rated at 252 pixels per inch. By having this kind of screen specification, the device users are seemed to be promised about nice visual performance by the Lumia 800.
Nokia Lumia 800’s display has been also equipped with some nice features such as multi-touch, accelerometer and gyro sensors built-in to deal with screen rotation. Apart from those features, the screen also offers better power efficiency than the average LCD along with brighter and more vivid colors.
To defend the pride, HTC packs a 4.7-inch capacitive touchscreen using Sony’s S-LCD to the Titan’s body. Compared to the rival’s screen, actually it does offer the same benefits which are including better power efficiency than the average LCD, brighter and more vivid colors. The Titan’s screen boasts 480×800 pixel resolution, just the same with the rival did, but it cost the pixel density since the same resolution is packed in the larger screen. The pixel density of the Titan’s screen is rated at 199ppi.
For the display battle, again, the Nokia’s phone has come out as the winner.
3. Storage Comparison between Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan
For the next stop, we are going to compare the storage of both phones. Nowadays, a device that offers more storage becomes more preferable in some occasions due to the need of the users that frequently keep so many files in their smartphone increasing rapidly.
Unfortunately, there is no winner for this round as both Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan are offering the same 16GB of onboard space and 512MB of RAM to support the device’s performance. There is no external storage support as per usual on Windows Phone. However, there is an exception for this rule as the Nokia 710 supports for memory card.
4. Processor Comparison between Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan
If we talked about phone’s performance, we should do a surgery to the device’s CPU to find the specification. And since there is no Windows Phone device powered by a dual core so far, this round seems going to be very tight.
HTC Titan is powered by a powerful 1.5GHz Qualcomm Scorpion processor on the MSM8255 chipset and for the visual support; the HTC’s handset is equipped with an Adreno 205 graphics processing unit.
In the meantime, Titan’s rival, the Lumia 800 runs on the same chipset and GPU as the Titan but is powered with unfortunately slower clock speed at 1.4GHz.
With running the particular highly optimized Windows Phone platform, both Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan should have capable to display good performance.
The result for this round is draw as the two combatants perform slight difference of CPU specification.
5. Operating System Comparison between Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan
Just like we have written before, both Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan are Windows Phone running smartphone. They are running on the latest version of this operating system which is called as Mango.
Windows Phone Mango offers some nice abilities. Wrapped with pretty slick interface the operating system has a good taste when pushing out the information onto the homescreen. But, in term of application’s availability, Windows Phone Mango does not have as many as its competitors.
The most highlighted feature can be found in Windows Phone mango is the People Hub which lets the device users to see feedback from and send messages to multiple contacts at once. It can be done easier if the device users manage to put some contacts together in one group and pin everything to the homescreen for quick access.
Finally, as both combatants did not offer something different, draw is seemed fair.
6. Camera Comparison between Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan
Camera becomes one of several essential parts to smartphones recently and this feature has become a consideration to some people when hunting for new phone.
For this round, the battle comes tighter as both Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Titan have been equipped with an 8-megapixel primary at a resolution of 3264×2448 pixels and capable of capturing video at 720p.
Nokia Lumia 800 offers a designer lens with Carl Zeiss optics, a dual LED flash, touch focus, geo-tagging, digital zoom, exposure control, white balance, face detection, video stabilisation and continuous autofocus. As for the comparison, the HTC Titan’s camera has been equipped with some features such as geo-tagging, autofocus, LED flash, digital zoom and a 1.3 megapixel secondary camera.
The winner for this section is Nokia Lumia 800 as the device’s camera has been equipped with more features and with high-quality optics to boot.
7. Final Result
Through Lumia 800, Nokia proves that they are not only capable to build a device with different operating system, but the Finnish company also proves that they are capable to build a device running on different operating system with good design, nice display and powerful camera too.
By reading several sections of comparison, HTC Titan seems promising but it has to admit that the competitor offers more various features and better specifications.
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