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As you know TechView has had the HTC One Mini2 for a while now. I’ve only begun to the fully use it for a week now and in the one week of usage, the phone has impressed me with it’s battery life performance quite a bit. So I’ve decided to give the Extreme Power Saver mode a shot and see how well it performs. I’ll have the details on that posted, in the mean time, I thought of quickly putting a first impressions of the device since a week’s usage means I’ve had the chance to frame an impression about the phone.
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Let’s first start with the design. The HTC One Mini2 is very much the younger sibling to the HTC One M8. It’s made from metal, but doesn’t quite have as much metal as the larger sibling. The One Mini2 has a strip of hard black plastic running across the slim edges of the phone. One can clearly see it and while it may not ruin the looks of the device, I can’t help but wish it wasn’t there.
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The One Mini2 also does away with the Ultrapixel tech and instead comes with a massive 13MP sensor at the back and a 5MP sensor in the front. There’s no dual LED flash as well. The IR blaster is gone and the volume rocker does not bear the same colour as the rest of the body and that’s a surprise. I don’t quite understand why HTC has done what it has with the looks of this device, because as a silhouette and overall the device looks every bit premium and more compact when compared othe hTC One M8, but it’s in the smaller details that you begin to see the corners that have been cut.
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While the quality of the materials has been top class and it’s one thing I cannot even nitpick about, the changes to the volume rocker and the inclusion of the hard plastic around the phone makes it less pleasing to the eye. There’s another thing that adds to the misery and it really isn’t good – the placement of the power button. It has changed from right side to left. It’s still on the top though. Personally that’s just an aberration and I have to literally tell my mind to not instinctively reach for the top right side of the phone. I wish HTC hadn’t changed the power button position.
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When it comes to overall quality of the device, I cannot but be happy with it. Even for a lesser phone, the HTC One Mini2 makes every effort to be considered a premium buy. The HTC One Mini2 comes with the same boom sound speaker setup the HTC One M8 had and while I’m yet to put the music capabilities to the test, the speakers have sounded loud enough to be heard from a distance.
The camera is also pretty decent on the One Mini2, in many ways this solution might be the one area where it outdoes the flagship M8. The One Mini2 doesn’t seem to offer the Dot Case support, while that may be a bit of a bummer since the case added to the M8’s USP, there will be several other cases to look for if you want it.
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The screen and the hardware on the phone were areas I was skeptical about since this is a 1.2GHz quad core processor equipped phone with just 1GB of RAM. The screen is a 720p resolution screen. While resolution isn’t the area of bother for me the hardware did seem to be an area where I thought the phone might falter. Well guess what, even with the latest version of Sense UI, the One Mini2 seemed to chug along just properly. There are stray issues of freezing, but half a second of freeze once in a while didn’t ruin any experience whatsoever. With increased usage, those freezes disappeared and it never felt like I was using a 1GB RAM phone. No lags, no freezes and no performance issues till now. The 720p screen is perfect for a device this size and I’ve had no issues with clarity and colour reproduction. You won’t even feel the difference between the One M8’s screen the One Mini2’s screen. In my one week’s of usage, I’d forgotten this was a Mini2 and not the One M8. It seemed that fluid and that well built.
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The HTC One Mini2 may just be one of the best mid range device from HTC yet! I’ll have a full review of the device up in a few days. That should throw light on all the little details regarding the device.
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