Initial Impressions of the HTC One Mini

The HTC One Mini has been out there for a while now and I have to say that it was pretty fast when I first turned it on. It boots up quickly due to HTC's quick boot feature, which is a nice touch. The device also seems to produce good sound output, which could be beneficial for music lovers.

Unboxing the HTC One Mini

Upon unboxing the device, we see that there are no frills or unnecessary features. On one side of the phone, we have the 3.5mm headphone jack on this side, and the volume up and down rockers, with nothing else in between. The microphone is located at the top, along with the micro USB slot for charging and syncing. We also find a slot where you can add your micro SIM card.

Looking Around the Device

Moving towards the other end of the device, we have a 4MP Ultra Pixel camera that's capable of shooting full HD videos in 1080p. There is also an LED flash to illuminate the image when needed. Additionally, we find another secondary microphone for noise cancellation. However, it seems that this is not actually used as there is only one front-facing camera on this device, which is a 1.6MP shooter.

The Power Button and Blink Feed

At the top of the device, we have a power button that should boot up quickly due to HTC's quick boot feature. Speaking of which, initial impressions suggest that this phone was pretty fast when turned on. Moving along to the home screen, we see that there are only two buttons: back and home.

The Blink Feed and Home Button

We do find a dedicated logo at the bottom of the device that serves as a button for multitasking tray, but instead of being a dedicated button, it's actually just the HTC logo. To access the multitasking tray, you would need to double-tap this home button, which then takes you to your recent tabs.

Exploring the Android Version

To see what Android version comes pre-installed on this device, we go back to the settings and select "About Software Info". As expected, it's running on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. Next, we look at the storage tab to see how much storage is available.

Storage and Display

The internal storage of the HTC One Mini comes with 16GB, out of which 10.67GB is available for use. Moving along to the display, it looks pretty nice. Always HTC puts in very good panels on their devices, and this one is no exception.

Software Features

To see what software features come pre-installed on this device, we select "Apps". We find a mix of Google-specific apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail as well as some productive apps like Polaris Office, Dropbox, and PDF Viewer. We also notice that there's not too much junkware installed.

Camera Test

To take a closer look at the camera, let's quickly check out the tap-to-focus feature and shutter lag. The Ultra Pixel camera takes great snaps instantly, with minimal shutter lag and zooming capabilities. Let's just take a few more snaps to see how it performs in different lighting conditions.

Web Browser and RAM/GPU

To test the web browser on this device, let's open up Tech TAS (techtas.com). As expected, pinch-to-zoom is working as intended. Now that we've tested the website with our own hands, let's take a look at the specifications of the device: it comes equipped with 1GB RAM and Adreno 305 GPU.

Conclusion

The HTC One Mini may not be the best option when considering pricing, but if you're willing to overlook the price tag, this device looks promising. Let's wait for my full review for a more in-depth look at this phone's performance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin this video we're going to do the unboxing for this HTC 1 mini it also has the blink feed HTC boom sound and HTC Zoe so let's do the unboxing and Hands-On overview with this HTC1 mini so this is the box for the HTC1 mini and uh on the back it gives us some specifications and the internal storage on this is 16 gigs and it's a dual core processor based on the Snapdragon uh 400 chipset it's clogged at 1.4 GHz and the screen size is 4.3 in so let's take it out and we have the beautiful HTC 1 mini let us keep that to the side and let's look at what else do we get we do get this Sim eject tool by which as you can see here it shows how to insert our micro CM you also have some documentation about the HTC1 mini and and user license agreement these are the earphones that are bundled and this is the micro USB to us USB cable that'll be used for charging and this is the supplied uh USB charger so let's keep all these things to the side and look at the interesting thing that's the handset itself and before we proceed I just want to thank feil Communications for providing this unit for testing and coming to the pricing in India this HTC1 mini is I would say highly overpriced it sells for around 37,000 rupees but fezal Communications qued me a street price of around 30,000 for this HD HTC1 mini so this is the beautiful HTC1 mini let's take it out I've already set it up and before we proceed let me give you a physical overview again it has that aluminium finish at the back and it looks actually pretty elegant the original HTC1 uh had a 4.7 in screen but this mini has a 4.3 in screen and the resolution has been dropped a little uh it's a 720P HD screen uh compared to the original that had a 1080p screen and and again we do have boom sound and dual speakers like the original HTC1 and again I have to say it looks pretty elegant and uh it looks like a premium looking phone one thing I did notice is that on the sides now it's plastic it's not that shamer Metal Field that we had on the original HTC1 so yes there are a little bit of differences let me give you a physical overview first then we'll move on on the top we have the power onoff button and we have the 3.5 mm h headphone jack on this side we have the volume uh rockers and nothing else it's plastic and here we have the microphone and the micro USB slot that'll be used for charging and syncing moving towards this end and we have this slot where you will add your micro SIM uh the rear facing camera is a 4 map that's Ultra pixel camera LED flash we also have a secondary uh microphone for noise cancellation HTC and it does says that it has Beats or the front-facing camera is actually a 1.6 map shooter and this can shoot video up to 720P HD the rear facing camera can shoot videos in full HD that's 1080p so let's start this device now we have the power button at the top and it should boot in quickly because of HTC's quick boot and again I have to say initial Impressions the it was pretty fast and the sound output again looks to be pretty good so let's unlock this device Dev and we do have the HTC blink feed that we saw with the original HTC1 and let me just get out of that and we do have only two buttons here that's the back and the home we don't have a dedicated button for the multitasking tray and this is not a button this is just HTC logo for multitasking tray you need to double tap this home button and you get to the recent tabs right now we don't have any and this is the blink feed and you just swipe away to get to your home screens and this is the app tray and let's look at the Android version that comes pre-installed for that let me just slide here and from here let's go to the settings and first let's look at the Android version let's go to about software info and as you can see it comes with Android version 4.2.2 that is Jelly Bean so let me go back and let's also look at the storage that we get on this uh One Mini let's go to the storage tab here it is and the internal storage is 16 GB and out of that the available storage that you get is 10.67 GB so that's for the storage and uh let's also look at the display the display actually looks pretty nice always HTC puts very good panels on their devices and this is not an exception here so that's for the uh software features let's look at the apps uh we have Facebook Twitter uh pre-installed uh these are the Google specific apps let's go back and not a lot of uh junkware that is pre-installed we also have these productive apps Polaris Office dropbox and PDF viewer are pre-installed and uh before we end this quick unboxing uh let's actually also look at the camera of this HTC1 mini it's the same for Ultra pixel that we got on the HTC1 so let's quickly have a look at that we do get the tap to focus and actually there is no shutter lag or anything like that it takes the snaps instantly let me take one more and we can also zoom in and zoom out like this if you want we'll have a look at the camera a lot more I'll do a dedicated review regarding the camera performance but let's quickly just look at the snaps that we took right now these are the ones that we took now and the Flash did not fire and I would say low light uh handling is pretty decent due to the ultra pixel and uh let's also quickly look at the web browser before we end this one and this is the keyboard let's go to our website that's Tech tas.com here it comes and let's open it up and see again pinch to zoom as expected is pretty good uh regarding the RAM on this it's just 1 GB RAM and the GPU on this is adreno 305 uh let's just quickly just open up one of these stories we have a YouTube video embedded and let's see how well it handles uh the Youtube video that's embedded on this web page let's play that hi there this is R let me maximize the volume I have Sony xia Z Ultra which is a massive Android phone by Sony and I just took it out of the box I just wanted to show you the phone it supports a massive six point so as you can see it had no problems and I have to say again the speaker quality uh is actually very good so this HTC 1 mini looks like a pretty good phone uh if you just don't consider the pricing the pricing I would say is actually pretty high I'll also be doing a full in-depth review for this HTC 1 mini very soon so if you have any specific questions regarding this HTC1 mini do let me know in the comment section I'll try to include them in my review that's it for now this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next videoin this video we're going to do the unboxing for this HTC 1 mini it also has the blink feed HTC boom sound and HTC Zoe so let's do the unboxing and Hands-On overview with this HTC1 mini so this is the box for the HTC1 mini and uh on the back it gives us some specifications and the internal storage on this is 16 gigs and it's a dual core processor based on the Snapdragon uh 400 chipset it's clogged at 1.4 GHz and the screen size is 4.3 in so let's take it out and we have the beautiful HTC 1 mini let us keep that to the side and let's look at what else do we get we do get this Sim eject tool by which as you can see here it shows how to insert our micro CM you also have some documentation about the HTC1 mini and and user license agreement these are the earphones that are bundled and this is the micro USB to us USB cable that'll be used for charging and this is the supplied uh USB charger so let's keep all these things to the side and look at the interesting thing that's the handset itself and before we proceed I just want to thank feil Communications for providing this unit for testing and coming to the pricing in India this HTC1 mini is I would say highly overpriced it sells for around 37,000 rupees but fezal Communications qued me a street price of around 30,000 for this HD HTC1 mini so this is the beautiful HTC1 mini let's take it out I've already set it up and before we proceed let me give you a physical overview again it has that aluminium finish at the back and it looks actually pretty elegant the original HTC1 uh had a 4.7 in screen but this mini has a 4.3 in screen and the resolution has been dropped a little uh it's a 720P HD screen uh compared to the original that had a 1080p screen and and again we do have boom sound and dual speakers like the original HTC1 and again I have to say it looks pretty elegant and uh it looks like a premium looking phone one thing I did notice is that on the sides now it's plastic it's not that shamer Metal Field that we had on the original HTC1 so yes there are a little bit of differences let me give you a physical overview first then we'll move on on the top we have the power onoff button and we have the 3.5 mm h headphone jack on this side we have the volume uh rockers and nothing else it's plastic and here we have the microphone and the micro USB slot that'll be used for charging and syncing moving towards this end and we have this slot where you will add your micro SIM uh the rear facing camera is a 4 map that's Ultra pixel camera LED flash we also have a secondary uh microphone for noise cancellation HTC and it does says that it has Beats or the front-facing camera is actually a 1.6 map shooter and this can shoot video up to 720P HD the rear facing camera can shoot videos in full HD that's 1080p so let's start this device now we have the power button at the top and it should boot in quickly because of HTC's quick boot and again I have to say initial Impressions the it was pretty fast and the sound output again looks to be pretty good so let's unlock this device Dev and we do have the HTC blink feed that we saw with the original HTC1 and let me just get out of that and we do have only two buttons here that's the back and the home we don't have a dedicated button for the multitasking tray and this is not a button this is just HTC logo for multitasking tray you need to double tap this home button and you get to the recent tabs right now we don't have any and this is the blink feed and you just swipe away to get to your home screens and this is the app tray and let's look at the Android version that comes pre-installed for that let me just slide here and from here let's go to the settings and first let's look at the Android version let's go to about software info and as you can see it comes with Android version 4.2.2 that is Jelly Bean so let me go back and let's also look at the storage that we get on this uh One Mini let's go to the storage tab here it is and the internal storage is 16 GB and out of that the available storage that you get is 10.67 GB so that's for the storage and uh let's also look at the display the display actually looks pretty nice always HTC puts very good panels on their devices and this is not an exception here so that's for the uh software features let's look at the apps uh we have Facebook Twitter uh pre-installed uh these are the Google specific apps let's go back and not a lot of uh junkware that is pre-installed we also have these productive apps Polaris Office dropbox and PDF viewer are pre-installed and uh before we end this quick unboxing uh let's actually also look at the camera of this HTC1 mini it's the same for Ultra pixel that we got on the HTC1 so let's quickly have a look at that we do get the tap to focus and actually there is no shutter lag or anything like that it takes the snaps instantly let me take one more and we can also zoom in and zoom out like this if you want we'll have a look at the camera a lot more I'll do a dedicated review regarding the camera performance but let's quickly just look at the snaps that we took right now these are the ones that we took now and the Flash did not fire and I would say low light uh handling is pretty decent due to the ultra pixel and uh let's also quickly look at the web browser before we end this one and this is the keyboard let's go to our website that's Tech tas.com here it comes and let's open it up and see again pinch to zoom as expected is pretty good uh regarding the RAM on this it's just 1 GB RAM and the GPU on this is adreno 305 uh let's just quickly just open up one of these stories we have a YouTube video embedded and let's see how well it handles uh the Youtube video that's embedded on this web page let's play that hi there this is R let me maximize the volume I have Sony xia Z Ultra which is a massive Android phone by Sony and I just took it out of the box I just wanted to show you the phone it supports a massive six point so as you can see it had no problems and I have to say again the speaker quality uh is actually very good so this HTC 1 mini looks like a pretty good phone uh if you just don't consider the pricing the pricing I would say is actually pretty high I'll also be doing a full in-depth review for this HTC 1 mini very soon so if you have any specific questions regarding this HTC1 mini do let me know in the comment section I'll try to include them in my review that's it for now this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next video\n"