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Filed under: Handsets , Features , Reviews , HTC , Sprint-Nextel , Windows Mobile , 1xRTT , EV-DO , CDMA Known as the Titan , the PPC-6800, and the XV6800 in its various forms, Sprint's Mogul from HTC represents arguably the most anticipated piece of CDMA hardware so far this year. Why? Well, for starters, its direct predecessor -- the PPC-6700 "Apache" -- isn't getting any younger. Don't get us wrong, the PPC-6700 was a well-loved device that held its own for a good long while, but let's be honest: aerial antennas and Windows Mobile 5 are getting a little passé (to put it lightly). We've had the good fortune to be able to spend a few quality minutes with a production Mogul this weekend, so let's have a closer look, shall we? %Gallery-4052% For those in a time crunch, let's skip straight to the point: for PPC-6700 owners, the Mogul is a more than worthwhile upgrade. There isn't any one stand-out feature of the Mogul that makes it the killer CDMA smartphone, but the sum of the incremental improvements over the PPC-6700 really seals the deal. The aforementioned internal antenna and Windows Mobile 6 Professional are welcome additions, of course, but you also get double the internal ROM (about 163MB usable), an extra 0.7 megapixels worth of snappin' power, the promise of EV-DO rev. A data via upgrade later in the year, and a scroll wheel on the handset's left side. Upgraders might lament the move from miniSD to microSD, but going forward, it's a good thing -- microSD's clearly the standard of choice for phone memory expansion. HTC made the somewhat unusual move of powering the Mogul with a Qualcomm MSM7500 (versus, say, an XScale or OMAP) humming along at a nice, round 400MHz. We haven't had the opportunity to run a good battery test, but for what it's worth, the thing's plenty fast. Maybe we're just used to 200MHz OMAP850 devices, but the Mogul's WM6 build definitely moves at a solid clip...