True to its name, the has a large 4.7-inch display. A phone this large can be difficult to hold and sometimes, when the screens get bigger, text and picture sharpness is compromised. I got a chance to play with the HTC Titan at CTIA 2011 in San Diego and I was surprised--and impressed--with what I saw.

The HD7 and the Touch HD were awkward to hold; for somebody with slightly small hands, they were simply too wide. HTC has clearly made an effort since these phones to deliver both a larger display, but still making the phone comfortable to hold. They've succeeded with the Titan.

I was also impressed with how sharp images appeared on the Titan's Super LCD display--even with its large size. Text looked really good as well; it was sharp and easy to read with no pixelation whatsoever.

Powered by a single core 1.5 GHz processor, the Titan ran smoothly. I wasn't able to browse the Web as the phone wasn't connected, but all of the Windows Phone 7 () menus scrolled smoothly and apps launched quickly.

Perhaps the coolest features in the Titan are the software enhancements made to the 8-megapixel camera. You can natively take photos in panoramic mode (which stitches together multiple photos into one wide-screen shot). The easy-to-use interface shows you where to move the phone by displaying a horizon line. It also shows you when to move the phone. A Burst Shot mode lets you take multiple pictures within seconds.