The Htc Hd Mini ? Compacting A Giant
The Htc Hd Mini ? Compacting A Giant
Riding on the current trend for shrinking successfully and eagerly awaited mobile phones, the Taiwan-based mobile phone designer HTC made it known at the last Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that its upscale HD2 will have mini brother in the HTC HD Mini.
With a minimized processor and screen size, the HD Mini is everything the beefier HD2 is and should appeal to a wider market wanting compact smartphones without breaking the bank, as it were.
In the words of its CEO Peter Chou, “The demand for the HTC HD2 has exceeded our expectations, and the HTC HD mini fulfills a desire from some customers to bring the capabilities and experience of the HTC HD2 to a more compact design: Need we say more?
HD2 Features in a Compact Body
On a touchscreen monolith body measuring a compact 103 x 57.7 x 11.7 mm and weighing a pocket-friendly 110 g, the HD Mini houses a less powerful Qualcomm 7227 processor clocked at 600 MHz compared to the 1 GHz Snapdragon on the HD2. You won’t get the lavish 4.3-inch display of the HD2 instead you get just 3.2 inches but with the same capacitive touchscreen technology with multitouch support, Half-VGA resolution and 64k colors. Other than these, the HD Mini is your HD2 that is more pocket-friendly.
It’s 3G on the dual band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (900/2100) good for Asian and European markets. It is also a quad band GS with class 10 GPRS/EDGE speeds on 2G. There’s the same WiFi 802.11b/g with WiFi router support and the usual Bluetooth 2.1 and microUSB 2.0 for local data transfers.
There’s a built-in A-GPS with digital compass and HTC Footprint for location finder support.
You get the same gravity accelerometer for auto-rotate viewing, ambient light for auto brightness and proximity sensors for disabling the touchscreen sensitivity when held against the face in a call.
Imaging gets the same 5 megapixel autofocus snapper with geo tagging, widescreen photo capture and unspecified video recording capability.
Entertainment comes with the same capable media playback support for popular audio and video file codecs including DivX video support. There’s also stereo FM with RDS and stereo listening options for using its 3.5mm audio jack or going wireless using Bluetooth A2DP.
Phone memory is the same 512 MB ROM but a slightly reduced 384 MB RAM from the HD2′s 448 MB RAM. You still get microSD memory expandability for up to 32 GB. Its 1200 mAh Li-Ion batter allows up to 435 mins of talk time and 340 hours on standby and audio playback time of up to 12 hours on a single charge.
Social networking gets Facebook integration, photo sharing with SNS sites and Flickr as well as video sharing with YouTube. The Sense UI on the HTC HD Mini comes with customizable home screens with widgets to allow instant access to your SNS, phone apps, messaging and media content on the fly. You get an Opera Mobile web browser but without Flash Lite support and document viewers for PDF and MS Office files.
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