Smaller version of HTC One SmartPhone is Coming: What to Expect?

The HTC One is a great device. There is no point against it and even if there is, I don’t like to hear it as I absolutely love the device. The ultra-pixel camera on the HTC one was a bold move by the company and we appreciate the move. Everyone else has been busy adding more pixels to the images captured by phones but they did some good by actually making an attempt to improve the camera quality. The ultrapixel camera works great to capture pics in low light and 4.7 inch 1080p display shows you colors to their truest.

HTC One Mini

Now there is a word out that a smaller version is in works which might provide people with the similar experience and feel at a lower price. We have seen such moves from the stable of Samsung and apparently HTC is trying the same in a hope to sell good number of units. We have seen Samsung announce the S4 mini which would provide users with similar looking device and provide them with some of the high end features from the Galaxy S4.

This works well for the manufacturers as people buy the device for the name and the few features that they won’t otherwise get in phones priced close. Plus the looks are deceiving too. Not everyone needs a quad core device just for making a few calls and sending a few messages, but the looks of a high end phone make them desirable. A “scaled down” version would provide users with the same looks and elegance of design without taking up the cost. We take a look at what the internet rumors have to say about the upcoming HTC one mini.

Design 

The HTC one mini would simply follow the design scheme of elder brother HTC one. It might be a bit thicker than the HTC one but the edges and curves will all retain their shape. The HTC one is a great looking device so we shouldn’t have any complaints against the design of HTC one mini too.

Display

HTC has been providing decent displays in their devices (well except for the low end devices) and this one is expected to have a nice display as well. Plus it has to carry the HTC one name so a good display would be necessary to couple with the looks. The HTC one has a 4.7 inch 1080p display. This ‘one’ is supposed to have 4.3 inch display having 720p resolution. This would give a pixel density of over 340 pixels per inch and that is sweet. The display won’t have contrast ratios as good as the AMOLED displays seen on Samsung devices but it would surely have great colour replication and excellent brightness.

Hardware

The HTC one runs a Qualcomm chipset and a quad core Krait processor clocked at 1.7 GHz. The specifications of quad core Samsung Galaxy S4 are somewhat close to it, with slightly higher clock speed. The scaled down Galaxy S4, S4 mini is getting a dual core processor running at a clock speed of 1.7 GHz and 1.5 or 2 GB of RAM. The HTC one mini is supposed to have almost the same basic hardware. A 1.5 or 1.7 GHz dual core processor coupled with 1.5 or 2 GB of RAM, the more the better. 

The phone might or might not have the infrared port like that on the standard HTC one to control you infrared devices around the house. Chances exist that they might add that feature to give people something exclusive from the high end device.

Camera

The camera on HTC one is a 4 megapixel ultra-pixel camera. If you didn’t get the jargons, then a simple explanation is that it is a low resolution camera, working at a larger light sensor. This way each pixel of image can have more area on the light sensor (2µm in case of HTC one) which improves image quality. The colour replication was greatly improved over most mobile cameras and even low light photos had greater details and low noise. 

We always used to say that just increasing the count of pixels in an image won’t do any good to photography and someone actually needs to act different from the crowd and make a better low resolution camera. HTC took the bold move and put a 4 megapixel ultra-pixel camera in HTC One. This is one of the reason we love HTC one. They actually worked towards improving quality of photos we click rather than just joining the megapixel war. Some might say that 4 megapixels is too small for a photograph but then we would say that they haven’t welcomed the digital photography well. How many good posters have they made out of the 8 or 13 megapixel camera they have got on their phone? We have still got a 3.2 megapixel Sony digital camera and I still use it instead of the 8 megapixel camera on my phone. And believe us we know what a good photograph is. 

Chances exist that we might see the same camera on the baby HTC one. And if it happens, we would be the part of happiest group in the world. This would put the great camera of HTC one in many hands and once people realize that it is actually better than their previous camera stating double the megapixel number, they will look for quality and not high megapixels. If things go this way, it will surely force other manufacturers to go for the same methodology and would do some good to the mobile photography.

This is a promising phone that people will look forward to. In fact we would prefer HTC One mini over Samsung S4 mini if they are priced close. The phone is supposed to be priced a bit over 25K if and when it is launched in India and we feel it would be worth it. 

Author's Bio: This article is written by Sanjay Kumar Negi. He is working at 91mobiles.com.