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A touchscreen phone with a classy, yet understated design, the HTC HD mini comes with a quality 3.2in screeen that offers bright colours, an excellent keyboard and superb viewing angles. The phone is easy to use and is extremely fast. However, this speed and performance is challenged if you open too many apps at once and the phone struggles to cope. Still, this is one our favourite small touchscreen smartphones. Read full review

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By Edward Chester
Reviewed 15 April 2010
Updated 26 May 2011

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£307.00

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HTC HD mini details

Design: 8/10
Features: 8/10
Performance: 7/10
Value: 8/10
Overall: 8/10

Pros & Cons

Pros

Superb viewing angles
Striking speed
Excellent touch-sense

Cons

Earphones lack noise isolation
Disappointing loud speaker
Older version of Windows

Price as reviewed

£307.00

Manufacturer

HTC

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Stelph

12:56 PM on 15 April, 2010

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So this is the successor to the HTC Diamond? Glad its reviewed so well and that HTC realise that not everyone wants a massive slab for a phone. Shame there isnt an Android version or an LED flash.

Id also like to see a version with a slide out keypad. At the end of the day, all the extra fuinctionality of internet connection ect is great, but it is a phone and you just can't text one handed as fast on a touchscreen phone than you can with a hardware keypad. Perhaps HTC will remake the HTC Dual?

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MarioM

1:50 PM on 15 April, 2010

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What is it with this sudden desire for Android? My G1 was so pants that I went back to the TytnII I had before it. No voicedialling FFS... useless. I'm sorry if I bang on about this every time I see a 'wish it was Android' comment but a) there are too many Android phones and not enough Windows Mobile phones coming out at the moment and b) Google are getting a really easy time of it with Android as it's just not up to spec. And it doesn't have voicedialling.

I see the attraction and really want Google to succeed vs MS and Apple, but if they get too much support whilst it's still not up to scratch they will reduce the effort they are putting into it.

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2:35 PM on 15 April, 2010

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There is sort of an Android version of it - the HTC Legend.

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mesaboogie

2:39 PM on 15 April, 2010

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This HTC HD Mini is way better than I thought it'd be! Really smooth animations and all. I guess the lower resolution and the slightly better cpu really help in that aspect.

@MarioM - Well, in Androids defense, it has come a long way since the days of the G1. I tried 2.01 and 2.1 on my HTC HD and it was a fairly smooth experience (being a port and having an old cpu are to blame for the occasional slow down). I don't know about voice-dialing because I simply don't use it.

That being said, it's not better than WinMo (with sense), just different. What's missing on WinMo is a decent marketplace with more apps, in my opinion.

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3:17 PM on 15 April, 2010

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Waiting for the windows phone 7 version of this this (assuming they can cram a 1GHZ snapdragon and 500mb+ of ram). Really wish this had say 16GB internal memory.

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4:06 PM on 15 April, 2010

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I have a problem with this line " with Windows Phone 7 just around the corner, this phone will be completely deprecated in a few months time".

Considering how radically different WP7 is, I don't really think you can say it'll "replace" 6.5 in any way. If anything, I see a lot of people sticking with 6.5 for several reasons, not least: Cut&Paste, Multitasking and -last but not least- sticking with their favourite apps which they've been using on WM phones for years.

@Stelph: I can't quite fathom how the conclusion that this is a successor to the Diamond could be reached. Basically, it's a Mini HD (fancy that) and that's as far as any conclusions of any kind can be drawn. Sorry, that may have sounded a bit pedantic, but the statement baffled me.

@mesaboogie: Actually, I agree with MarioM, Android has actually NOT come a long way at all this past year and I'm so aggravated at them for NOT moving along at any kind of reasonable pace that my blood's starting to boil whenever someone enthusiastically recommends an Android phone. The Nexus One's more underwhelming than Apple sticking that camera on the Nano.

Right, I think that's everyone offended. Off I go.

P.S. the HD Mini is quite cute indeed, and I too love the yellow insides.

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4:55 PM on 15 April, 2010

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@drdark et al.

"I too love the yellow insides" - there is something very cryptic about appreciating a device for the colour of a part you can't see! If this catches on, perhaps we'll be able to order devices with different colours inside their chips or such like, and subcultures will grow up devoted to the various different un-seeable colour schemes! Very Zen.

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5:10 PM on 15 April, 2010

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@MarioM - I just prefer android over windows mobile, its just a personal preference really, hence why I said it. In addition I prefer symbian over both (mostly because I prefer the hardware to be honest, good old nokia!)

@WyWyWy and DrDark - Ive just realised why my comments on the HTC Diamond didnt make sense, the Diamond had a 2.8" screen rather than a 3.2" screen! I had HTC Diamond and actually got on fine with the size of the screen so ive been hoping they would bring out a refreshed version. But since then every phone has had a larger screen than that so I had lost all hope, and then got overexcited with the "mini" monica so I had mistakenly thought this was going back to HTC Diamond size. No such luck it seems :-(

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5:33 PM on 15 April, 2010

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@Stelph: While the Diamond's screen was a brilliant resolution at the time and a very bright screen compared to models just a year older, it hasn't exactly aged well. Also the battery's abysmal. Come to think of it, the Tattoo might be a good alternative as it's really excellent value http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_tattoo-pictures-2932.php ,but again typing becomes cramped. I think most manufacturers figured out touchtyping isn't really comfortable on anything under 3.2" and ideally 3.5".

I can't stand Android because the "no way to shutdown running programs" stance is still just too ridiculous in my mind. I know there are now apps which can do it. Also the settings menus are too confusing, and it's not possible to get to the gmail account settings properly without fully resetting the phone.

It might grow on me if I spent considerable time with it, but to be honest, even my first impressions of Maemo (N900) were much more favourable (needs more updates now though; am starting to lose interest).

Overall though, I still love My E71's S60 above all others. Doubt even the mythical iPhone 4G could tear me away.

@Martin: Oh I have seen it though ;). Would sellotape the battery in an carry it around like that if I could...

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9:55 PM on 15 April, 2010

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drdark

Don't understand the comment about not being able to shut down running apps on android - you just go into settings->manage applications select the app and then select "force stop"

Or am I missing something ?

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