26 February 2010 by Simon
The big trend this year appears to be the release of miniature versions of popular mobile phones, or at least it would seem that way following this month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. With the T-Mobile Pulse Mini and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro, it seems like scaled down touchscreens are going to be the next big thing this summer.
The HD Mini is HTC's addition to this latest trend, as a miniaturised version of last year'...
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Shrinking successful upscale products to open them up to wider markets is often a balancing act between maintaining as many of the good things in it and cramming them into a more compact body to get a more affordable price point. Here, the Taiwan-based leader in smartphones HTC does a great job shrinking the marvelous Windows-run HD2 into the new HTC HD Mini using the same OS.
Sacrificing A Little HD2 Power
So what was left of the HD2 on a mini body? A lot. With the same touchscreen monoblock measuring 103 x 57.7 x 11.7 mm and weighing a pocket-friendly 110 g, the HD Mini just less endowed 600 MHz Qualcomm 7227 processor. You don’t need the power of the 1GHz Snapdragon for a mini whose reduced 3.2-inch display won’t need all that CPU-intensive video display the same as the HD2 does.
But you still get the capacitive touchscreen technology with multitouch support, HVGA resolution and 64k colors. Part from these minimized features, the HD Mini everything else the HD2 is on a more pocket-friendly body.
- It’s 3G on the dual band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (900/2100) good for Asian and European markets and serves international roaming anywhere on the planet with a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G. You get the same WiFi 802.11b/g with WiFi router support and local data connectivity support via Bluetooth 2.1 and microUSB 2.0. It shares the same SatNav features of the HD2 with A-GPS, digital compass and HTC Footprint for location finder.
- Its display benefits from the same gravity accelerometer for auto-rotate viewing, an ambient light sensor for auto brightness and a proximity sensor for auto-disabling of touchscreen sensitivity in a call.
- Unlike some minis out there, the HD mini gets the same 5 megapixel autofocus shooter with geo tagging and widescreen photo capture. Your mobile entertainment goes with the same media playback support for popular audio and video file codecs including DivX video, an FM stereo radio with RDS and stereo listening options on either its 3.5mm audio jack or wireless Bluetooth A2DP.
- There’s the same 512 MB ROM but a slightly diminished 384 MB RAM from the HD2’s 448 MB RAM and your microSD memory expandability up to 32 GB remains in tact. Its 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery allows up to 7 hours of talk time 12 hours of music listening and 14 days in standby when fully charged.
SNS capability on the HTC HD Mini gets Facebook integration and media sharing with SNS sites, Flickr and YouTube. The Sense UI on top of the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS has customizable home screen widgets that enable instant access to your phone apps, SNS, messaging and media files on the fly. It comes bundled with an Opera Mobile web browser and document viewers for the popular MS Office and PDF files.
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