The HTC Radar (also known as HTC Radar 4G) is a smartphone running the
Windows Phone
Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design l ...
OS. The phone was designed and manufactured by
HTC Corporation
HTC Corporation ( zh, t=宏達國際電子股份有限公司, s=宏达国际电子股份有限公司, p=Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī, first=t) or High Tech Computer Corporation, (literally ''Hongda International Electron ...
. It was announced 1 September 2011, and launched on 12 October 2011.
Description
HTC announced the HTC Radar on 1 September 2011 in London, along with the higher end
HTC Titan
The HTC Titan (stylized and marketed as uppercase HTC TITAN; also known as the HTC Eternity in China, and HTC Ultimate in Brazil), is a smartphone running the Windows Phone OS 7.5 (codename Mango) operating system. The phone was designed and man ...
. The devices were HTC's first
smartphones to ship natively with
Windows Phone
Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design l ...
Mango (7.5).
Launch
Microsoft
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launched HTC Radar, powered by
Windows Phone 7.5
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Windows Phone 7
Win ...
Operating system (Codenamed Mango), on 12 October 2011 in India. HTC Radar is the first Mango powered
Smart phone
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in India.
Reception
Ross Miller of
The Verge
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The website launched on November 1, 2011, and uses Vox Media ...
in his review wrote: "Finally, for the platform agnostic – for those who aren’t committed to purchasing Windows Phone hardware – I’m still not quite sure I can recommend this over an Android phone of similar value."
See also
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Windows Phone
Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design l ...
References
External links
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Windows Phone devices
HTC smartphones
Discontinued smartphones