HTC One Mini now official with 4.3-inch display and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean

The HTC One Mini has been doing the rounds of the rumour mill for quite some time and HTC has finally officially launched the device. As the name suggests, the smartphone is a little sibling of the flagship HTC One in terms of its looks, design and certain features. Being the mini version it does however compromise on some features too such as the IR blaster.

To start with, the HTC One Mini has a 4.3-inch 720p display giving it a pixel density of 342ppi unlike its big brother that has a 4.7-inch full HD display. The screen of the HTC One Mini is S-LCD2 and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. The One Mini is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset with a dual-core Krait 300 CPU clocked at 1.4GHz, Adreno 305 and 1GB of RAM. It has 16GB built-in storage and there is no expansion option via a microSD card.

The One Mini runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and has the HTC Sense UI version 5 overlaid on it. You get access to HTC’s BlinkFeed and the smartphone comes preloaded with Beats Audio technology. The Mini retains the same aluminum unibody design of the HTC One and also houses the 4MP Ultrapixel camera. The camera on the Mini however lacks optical image stabilization. It has an LED flash and can still shoot HDR images and video in 1080p. The front of the smartphone has the 1.6MP camera for video chatting.

The One Mini is quite slim measuring a mere 9.25mm in thickness and weighing a mere 122 grams. It has an 1800mAh battery, which HTC claims will last for 20 hours 40 mins of 2G talk time and 13 hours 20 mins of 3G talktime.

The HTC One Mini will be available in grey and Black for and will start shipping in August for 449 euros (Rs. 35,300 approx.). The HTC One Mini is a direct competitor to the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini. Here is a quick comparative look at the specifications of both the smartphones.