Say what you will, but I'm a fan of the Metro interface in Windows Phone 7. It's elegant, and the interface looks great running on the Titan 2's jumbo screen. The Titan 2 ships with the latest version of Windows Phone (7.5) and comes preinstalled with a handful of AT&T and HTC apps. Unlike on Android phones, you can uninstall these apps if you don't want them.

Being a Windows Phone, the Titan 2 comes preloaded with the mobile version of Microsoft Office, allowing you to be productive on your commute or whenever else you're away from a computer. The phone's larger-than-average screen makes it useful for viewing PowerPoint presentations and writing short Word documents, but you most likely won't want to use the Titan 2 to create complicated Excel sheets.

If you prefer gaming over spreadsheets, you'll enjoy the Titan 2's integrated Xbox Live functionality. Through the Xbox Live app you'll be able to see your avatar, send messages to other Xbox Live users, and play games and earn achievements to raise your Gamerscore. Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja both ran well on the Titan 2 in my tests, but graphics-intensive games such as Need For Speed have moments when they slow down a bit.

One annoying thing about the Titan 2 is that, as with the iPhone, you'll need to use a desktop client to move your files on and off the phone. Although the is better looking than iTunes (and runs slightly better too), it's still a clunky way to manage content on a phone. The worst part is that the Zune software is available only for Windows--preventing a chunk of people (such as myself) from being able to use a Windows Phone to its fullest because we use OS X or Linux.