HTC One mini goes official with 4.3" 720 screen, dual-core Krait

It has been living in the rumor mill for a while now, but today HTC finally announced the One mini. It shares its design and many of its features with its bigger brother the One and sports a unibody aluminum body. That includes the HTC BoomSound technology, complete with dual frontal stereo speakers.

The HTC One mini is built around 4.3" display of 720p resolution resulting in a density of 341 pixels per inch. The screen itself is of the S-LCD2 variety and is protected from scratches by a Corning Gorilla Glass 3.

Under the hood of the HTC One Mini there"s a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset with 1.4GHz dual-core Krait 300 CPU, Adreno 305 and 1GB of RAM. The internal memory is 16GB and sadly, there isn"t a microSD card slot for expanding it.

HTC One mini official photos

The HTC One mini runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with HTC" Sense 5 UI icing on top. It gets treated to HTC"s BlinkFeed and Beats Audio technology as well.

At the back of the HTC One mini resides the same 4MP UltraPixel camera found on the HTC One. The only difference between them is the lack of optical image stabilization on the One mini. You still get HTC"s ImageChip 2 and a BSI sensor of 1/3" size, though.

The camera is capable of shooting 1080p videos with HDR and the LED flash next to it uses five levels of luminance (Smart Flash). HTC"s Zoe is available as well, along with slow motion video recording with variable speed playback. The front-facing camera is 1.6MP and sports a BSI sensor that can shoot 720p videos.

HTC One mini live photos

Measuring 132 x 63.2 x 9.25 the HTC One mini weighs 122 grams. The battery that powers it is an 1,800mAh Li-polymer unit and according to the HTC estimates is good for up to 13.2 hours of 3G talk time and 692 hours of 3G stand-by.

Connectivity is covered with LTE, Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX enabled, Wi-FI a/b/g/n with DLNA and GPS + GLONASS. HTC has provided a range of sensors, too - there"s a gyro, accelerometer, proximity and ambient light sensors. It seems that our petition has not gone unnoticed by the manufacturers after all.

The HTC One mini will be available in grey (Glacial Silver) and black (Stealth Black) for select markets starting from August for an estimated €449. Global rollout and availability will begin from September.

Be sure to check out our HTC One mini preview, where we examine the smartphone in more detail.