HTC ONE MINI 2 REVIEW


HTC launched flagship mini android smartphone namely One mini 2in India which is priced @ 36,900/-. It is available is White, Gold and Silver/Gunmetal shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is Great. It has a corning gorilla glass 3 on front and a brush alluminium finish unibody back and feels very good in hands. It is slim at 10.6mm and weighs 137gms. It has 4.5inch HD Super LCD 2 display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 326 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Great. It runs on HTC's Sense 6.0 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 128GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps such as Zoe camera app stores all your images and has built video player as well as music player which stores and plays respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & 5.76mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 .But has NFC & lacks IR blaster

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP rear camera 1/3inch sensor with autofocus and led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are very good and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images n clarity is acceptable . It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps HDR & 720p@60fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 16-17mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is quite nice. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's which does 1080p video with HDR and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 Kitkat out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (MSM8226) processor running a quad core at 1.2 GHZ (Cortex A7) with 1GB RAM and Adreno 305 (450 MHZ single Core) GPU. The performance is very good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run quite well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT :8660.
ANTUTU : 19946.
NENAMARK 2 : 58.7ps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Pro 2110 mah battery. The battery life is good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 6:40H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6:10H.
TALKTIME : upto 13H(2G) / upto 13H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 450 H(2G) / upto 430 H(3G).

PROS
*Top class build quality.
*Excellent display and viewing angle.
*Very good Performance.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity.
*Excellent Loudspeaker with Boom sound speakers.
*USB OTG & NFC.

CONS
*Non-Removable battery and battery life could have been bit better.
*Lacks motion launch feature from its flagship. 
*No IR Blaster. 
*Pricy with good amount of downgrade in specifications.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.2/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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