The HTC One Mini is an
Android smartphone
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designed and manufactured by
HTC
HTC Corporation ( zh, t=宏達國際電子股份有限公司, p=Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī, first=t), or High Tech Computer Corporation (abbreviated and trading as HTC), is a Taiwanese consumer electronics corporatio ...
. Alternatively known as the HTC M4,
[ HTC 601e or HTC 601s,]
Development and release
With the successful launch of the HTC One, HTC made plans to extend its design and technology into a "family of devices". In particular, HTC North America's president Mike Woodward indicated that consumers had requested a smaller version of the HTC One since its launch.[
In December 2013, the One Mini was banned from sale in the United Kingdom as the result of a ]patent infringement
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lawsuit by Nokia
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. While the HTC One was also affected by the ruling, its sales ban was stayed by the court pending an appeal; the judge indicated that banning HTC One sales would have a negative effect on the company in preparation for the release of its successor.
Specifications
The HTC One Mini uses an almost identical unibody design to the HTC One, and incorporates hardware features first introduced with the HTC One, such as front-facing dual BoomSound stereo speakers and a 4-megapixel rear-facing camera with an UltraPixel image sensor An image sensor or imager is a sensor that detects and conveys information used to form an image. It does so by converting the variable attenuation of light waves (as they refraction, pass through or reflection (physics), reflect off objects) into s ...
. Internally, the One Mini features a 1.4 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor with 1 GB of RAM, a 4.3 inch 720p
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screen with a pixel density
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of 341 ppi, lacks an infra-red emitter and NFC, uses a smaller 1800 mAh battery, and contains 16 GB of non-expandable storage.[ The One Mini ships with a version of Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) and ]HTC Sense
HTC Sense is a software suite developed by HTC, used primarily on the company's Android-based devices. HTC Sense, the successor to HTC's TouchFLO 3D, enhances Android with a revamped home screen, keyboard, widgets and HTC apps. The first devi ...
5.0 nearly identical to that of the HTC One.
Reception
Early reviews of the HTC One Mini were positive and praised HTC's adaptation of the HTC One's premium design to a smaller form factor, and also praised the One Mini's display and overall performance that was almost indistinguishable from that of its high-end counterpart. While PC Magazine
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Overview
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experienced issues with image quality on the rear camera on a pre-production model, the One Mini was considered a good competitor to the similar Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini
The Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (stylized as Samsung GALAXY S4 mini) is an Android smartphone developed by the Korean manufacturer Samsung Electronics. Announced on May 31, 2013 and released in July 2013, the S4 Mini is a mid-range model of its flags ...
due to the One Mini's higher quality build and high-definition screen.[
]
See also
* HTC One series
HTC One is a series of Android (operating system), Android and Windows Phone smartphones designed and manufactured by HTC. All products in the One series were designed to be touchscreen-based and slate phone, slate-sized, and to initially run th ...
References
External links
HTC One Mini Overview
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Android (operating system) devices
One
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Discontinued smartphones