Sunday, July 21, 2013

Hands-on: first test of HTC One Mini - ZDNet.nl

Summary: If you have the HTC One nice but what is great, then there’s the HTC One Mini. The features of the HTC One geschoenlepeld are therefore in a smaller package.

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HTC One nice but what is great, then there’s the HTC One Mini. The features of the HTC One geschoenlepeld are therefore in a smaller package. The aluminum exterior remains. The result is a smaller, less powerful and less intimidating phone that still clearly a member of the One-family.

After many rumors and leaks, is the confirmation of the HTC Mini One not very shocking and features are already not surprising. Yet, in the limited testing time that I had so far, I was already impressed. The slower processor is worrying and will competition from the Samsung Galaxy Mini S4 have to deal with, but HTC’s latest looks promising.


Design

Much of the appeal of the HTC One is its excellent build quality. The device is milled from a block of aluminum and bends, breaks or cracks if you firmly grasps it. The HTC One Mini has the same strength, which may not be surprising, because it is also made with a unibody.

One Mini deviates from the design of its big brother on the edges. They are not finished with polished metal, but with the cheaper polycarbonate. Advantage is that the less time and effort to make the phone. Something also has an impact on the price.

At 122 grams, the Mini One 21 grams lighter than the One, a weight that seems appropriate, given its smaller size. The Mini One is 63.2 millimeters wide, 132 millimeters high and 9.25 millimeters thick. And that is actually on any side but a minor difference with the HTC One.

On paper the difference does not seem large, but if je’m're holding, it is immediately clear that the housing of the Mini less high and wide.

A major drawback to the millimeter planing is that the HTC One Mini also has a smaller screen. Screens of more than 4 inches in diameter are not so very old, but today is the Mini One 4.3 inch in the middle, compared with the samples where the addition is in the shop.

The LCD screen also has a lower resolution of 720p and a pixel density of 341ppi. (The One has 4.7-inch, 1080p, 468ppi.) I have to say that the difference is hard to notice in the short time I tested the unit.

If you’re a fan of the robust speakers of the HTC One, which HTC Tree Sound calls, then you will be pleased to learn that the Mini One has the same function. HTC confirmed that the Mini One has a similar sound experience with each of the speakers powered by its own amplifier.

One Mini has two drilled audio grids around its screen. The speakers are smaller, but because I could not test, it is not clear whether that has an impact on the sound quality.


functions, components and camera

Despite its decline against the One, the One Mini features a very similar list. The device runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with the freshest version of HTC’s own Sense UI on top. This means that the new collector Blink Feed still the home screen inpalmt, whether you like it or not. Also: weather animations everywhere

Be warned that the engine in this phone a less powerful 1.4GHz dual-core Snapdragon is 400. The original One has the 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor and 600. The One Mini also has only half the RAM, 1GB. And although everything went smoothly during the tests, the slower processor sooner or later have a negative impact on performance.

I am especially impressed with the camera that takes pictures quickly. HTC explained to me that the Mini an identical image processing system uses as its predecessor. Like the HTC One, Mini One used the same HTC Sense Image 4MP with the same ultra-pixel sensor. The One Mini optical image stabilization, missing sin because it has an impact on pictures in low light.


Outlook

I am glad to see that the HTC One Mini comes on the market, because he brings a lot of HTC’s premium features to a smaller enclosure. What is really interesting here is that with the advent of the Mini One we see the clash of the titans that was between the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One.

a repeat

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S4 Mini, which contains too many senior positions in a shrunken body. The S4 Mini also uses a slower dual-core Snapdragon processor 400, but at 1.7GHz instead of 1.4GHz with the HTC One Mini. The S4 Mini with 1.5GB ramgeheugen also more than the HTC One Mini

As it stands now, the HTC One Mini phones that get by August the world will be. The device will cost 499 euros, significantly less than the 699 euro price of the HTC One – though probably by then absorbing real retail price of the One or lower

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