HTC One mini 2 rating - the collapse of M8

Android | Price 8-11 million

Miniature version of the most advanced smartphone HTC 2014 impress on luxurious design with unibody aluminum shell and beautiful screen, but high resale price.

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Like tradition, following the line of the top high-end products, the One M8, HTC to launch a scaled-down version called One mini 2. Inheriting the outstanding advantages in design and features as well as a some readjustment, however, the one mini 2 are still some notable limitations.

HTC One mini 2 is a miniature replica of the design of the "elder" M8.

Design

With its compact size than, the One mini 2 for holding a very comfortable feeling, both hands and also slips easily into the pocket compact. For women or those who prefer a compact smartphone to communicate, One Mini 2 is the perfect choice. 4.5 inch widescreen fact still meet user needs and experience on smartphones.

Like the original, this miniature version also has 3 hot fetish gray, metallic silver and gold records. But if you look closely, One Mini 2 is not completely identical to the One M8. Though the body is still monolithic design with the paint material and similar, a few little details have been adjusted HTC. No surrounding metal frame to close off the front rim as M8, instead, surrounded One mini 2 is the plastic frame.

Women's Mini 2 with a compact design thanks but beautiful, multi-colored selection.

Glossy plastic surface on the edges at the top has been replaced with rough plastic edges on the One mini 2, infrared eyes were removed. In terms of finishing meticulous, miniature version of the M8 was not in the original. Some details such as the SIM tray, memory cards lack the technical polish.

Besides, headphone jack from the bottom edge up on top of the camera is moving. The left side is Nanosim plug tray. Right, tray expandable microSD memory card slot is equipped with the necessary entertainment aficionados. Volume key sequence is set in metallic-colored edging and so not fit in with the metal cover (on the gray version), designed to make the user quite sunk difficult to locate when needed and somewhat difficult manipulation.

View photo details HTC One mini 2

Ministry of metal and tones that HTC offers to make the product look more than other rivals such as S4 Mini, or G2 Compact Z1 Mini ... The speakers located on the front BoomSound just bring good sound effects One mini 2 helps to express your personality and brings HTC's own identity.

Screen

To compact than the original, the One mini 2 sacrificed to extract the size from 5 inches to 4.5 inches.Besides, the resolution of Full HD also fell from 1.080p to 720p. This makes the One mini 2 has a sharp screen with M8, however, many will easily accept this is the abridged.

In fact, the density of pixels on the screen at 326 ppi HTC still on par with the Retina display on the iPhone 5 or 5S and will not see the phenomenon of pitting at the distance of normal use.

One mini 2 with beautiful screen but still limited and somewhat smaller.

HTC One mini 2 equip S-LCD 2 screen for realistic feel clear, beautiful images. However, unlike S-LCD screen on the One M8 3 should be no difference when compared directly with each other. Advantages in mini smartphone from HTC is very close to the screen with Gorilla Glass protection glass plate 3, creating good visual effects to bring compelling experience when watching movies, pictures.

One drawback to the mini 2 is the screen angle in the average, the phenomenon of color change shows when users tilt the machine. Besides, the visibility under strong light sources such as not to stand outdoors, at the highest brightness and under the hot sun, the screen stays shiny and slightly difficult to see. The use of three virtual keys also make use of the space on the screen of the One mini 2 shrunk.

However, if only compared to the same mini-range smartphone, the One mini 2 marginally better quality opponents.

Function

One mini 2 has inherited many attractive fitted M8 seniors. Machine runs on the new Android OS 4.4 KitKat along with Sense 6 interface beautiful and smart. Application updates are eye-catching HTC BlinkFeed still remain associated with the arrangement of graphics, symbols of its typical applications.

6 Sense interface with dual speaker system inherited from the M8 BoomSound.

BoomSound dual audio system in the front with a large volume but despite or, obviously, will satisfy those who like to watch movies, listen to music via speaker. One mini 2 still use nanosim and supports expandable memory card slot, next to 16 GB of internal memory enough.

However, this product has also shortened and changed regrettable than the original. Features smart touch screen without opening the Motion Launch HTC has been withdrawn. On top of the camera's infrared eyes no longer allow the phone becomes a remote control, though 2 Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC equipped unchanged.

Turn the camera also adjusted. Dual camera system (Duo Camera) famous M8 comes with no longer appear on the mini 2 and become as traditional single camera. In return, the One mini 2 use 13 megapixel camera resolution, theoretically for image size, more than the M8.

With the change in the sensor, range of features and fun effects like UFocus - focus any, Foregrounder - highlight foreground or Dimension Plus - increased depth has been eliminated. In return, the system features a massive post-HTC rest remain unchanged. What makes people like to take pictures on the smartphone feel the excitement in the mini 2 is the custom still hand Manual mode. The HDR mode, Panorama ... unchanged.

Photographs from the camera of the HTC One try mini 2

The camera on the mini version for shooting pretty good quality, especially when viewed directly on the screen of the machine, the beautiful images, in bright and colorful. However, the quality of playback on a computer, then declined, partly due to HTC's screen quality was flattering eye.

The front camera of the One mini has a resolution of 5 megapixels suit portrait photography hobby Selfie.

Readjust the camera design, however, the front camera with 5 megapixel resolution and wide-angle lens is not HTC omitted. With this equipment, the One mini 2 smartphone increasingly suggests it is designed more towards women, with its compact design and the ability to take pictures, "take a selfie" good selfie.

Performance

Compared with 9.9 million price, the One mini 2 is still expensive smartphones configuration. Basically, the machine is quite nice to meet the entertainment needs and work, new life 3D gaming possible. But given the parameters, the result of the product is not as expected.

Benchmark AnTuTu and Quadrant Tools respectively 15 491 and 9835 points, better than last year's One mini form but still lost to the same range or many models are cheaper, like One M7 or LG G2 ... The cause lies in the parameters of the mini is considerably shortened compared to the original.Qualcomm Snapdragon processor chip is 400 1.2GHz bundled 1 GB RAM instead of 2GB and Adreno 305 graphics used.

In return, the battery life of the One mini 2 is relatively stable. Using conventional level regime is open and accessible 3G networks quite often, the time the battery can operate from one to 1.5 days. Small screen with a resolution lower than the same configuration is not too strong to help more than 2,000 member mAh capacity battery, enough to perform well. On One mini 2, power saving mode has been integrated HTC.

Price is hampered with a beautiful smartphone, features and scalable performance as the HTC One mini 2.

HTC One mini 2 suit people who need a smartphone with a nice design but neat. Appearance One M8 is inherited from the greatest advantages on the product. However, with the change and stripped of features and configuration, the One mini 2 is not an attractive option when the price subject to expensive if compared to the same range of Android smartphones in the market is money.