HTC Intros Monstrous 4.7-inch Titan Powered by WP7.5

HTC has taken the wraps off its first Windows Phone 7.5 phones.

HTC has the Android platform to thank for its meteoric rise from plain, old OEM to smartphone superstar. However, the company was this week focused on a different OS entirely, choosing to announce a couple of new Windows Phone 7 handsets. Unveiled across Europe yesterday afternoon, the HTC Radar and HTC Titan both run the upcoming version of the Windows Phone 7, which is technically Windows Phone 7.5 (also known as Mango), and join the HD7, the Mozart, the Trophy, the Surround and the Pro in HTC's Windows Phone family.

First up is the monstrous Titan (pictured), which boasts a huge 4.7-inch display and a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU. It packs 512MB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, micro-USB, an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus, a 1.3-megapixel camera up front for video conferencing, Bluetooth and WiFi. The Radar, on the other hand, is significantly smaller with a 3.8-inch display, 1 1GHz CPU, 8GB of internal storage, a 5-megapixel camera in the back, a secondary VGA camera for video-conferencing, Bluetooth and WiFi.

"The new HTC Titan and Radar smartphones raise the bar with new advanced photography, multimedia and social capabilities that enable you to take full advantage of the latest Windows Phone innovations," HTC's Jason Mackenzie said in a statement. "With its large, cinematic display, the HTC Titan packs an amazing amount of power and innovation into a device that is unlike anything you’ve ever held before and the HTC Radar’s aluminum uni-body, compact size and finish will capture people’s attention."

Pricing and availability have yet to be announced, but HTC says both phones will be broadly available from October 2011 globally, beginning in Europe and Asia.