HTC One Mini 2 vs HTC One M8: What's the Difference?

[JMcEntegart]

The HTC One M8 has a little brother of its own.

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[ferooxidan]

if only they use at least snapdragon 600 and 2 gb ram it will be perfect.

 

[thundervore]

I was hoping to pick up a One Mini 2 for my upgrade from my One VX but not when they skimp on the hardware and cut the CPU, chipset and RAM in half.

Well at lease the camera is 13 megapixel and not the 4 ultrapixel but then again they skimp on the dual led flash .

 

[bjaminnyc]

I was hoping to pick up a One Mini 2 for my upgrade from my One VX but not when they skimp on the hardware and cut the CPU, chipset and RAM in half.

Well at lease the camera is 13 megapixel and not the 4 ultrapixel but then again they skimp on the dual led flash .

I was skeptical about the 4mp camera on the M8. After 2 months of ownership I couldn't be happier. The quality of photos in low light situations is second to none IMO. I'm always surprised when on auto how dark it actually needs to be for the flash to go off. The MP race is just marketing hype.

As impressed as I am with the cam, the battery life is ridiculous. I think I'm about as heavy a user as I know, I still end my day with a respectable % charge left. I forgot the charging cable on a day trip NYC->DC->NYC, turned on power save mode and was still surfing and listing to POD casts all day into the early evening.

I 1,000% would recommend buying the M8 for its features, and it looks great as well.

 

[lp231]

The M8 camera's pixel at 2688 ? 1520, is that the combine total or each of them is at 2688 ? 1520? If that is the combined total, then the HTC One Mini, might knocked the M8 because it has a higher resolution camera. For the Joe and Jane, they don't care about the technical stuffs, if the camera takes excellent pictures, then the rest doesn't matter.

 

[hannibal]

The only sensible flagship "mini" is Sony Z1 compact. All other are low range mini phones... Nothing wrong in that, but they definitely are not worth of flagship branding.

 

[nebun]

it's kind of funny how everyone was bashing apple for not having a removable battery, now most smartphones have a non removable matter....how ironic

 

[jasonelmore]

it's kind of funny how everyone was bashing apple for not having a removable battery, now most smartphones have a non removable matter....how ironic

Removable battery is really not a huge issue for most, it's the Micro SD card support that everyone begs for. Android KitKat has made it so easy to run apps and games off the SD Card, you just find the app in "settings" and hit the button that says "move to SD card".

Whats more is, Samsung is making these Pro Series micro SD cards that are just as fast as the internal eMMC Nand. 90 Mb/s Read, 40 Mb/s Write, which is almost what the EmmC can do

 

[Blazer1985]

Please excuse my obscenity but since it is a 4.5" device and they are calling it MINI all I can say is "MINI MY ASS"

 

[adam010978]

When a battery can fully charge in the 15 seconds it takes for me to swap one out then me and the millions like me will agree with htcs bone headed decision to go with nonremovable batteries. Until then we will all by galaxies.

 

[hotice]

One fact that often seems overlooked is the Droid Mini is the only "mini" that's just as good as the premium/full version phone. The only differences in the Droid Mini compared to the Droid Maxx or Ultra is the screen size, screen type, and battery size. It's the same resolution display, same dual-core Snapdragon 4 Pro CPU, same Adreno 320 GPU, same low-power voice and contextual processors, 2GB of RAM, and it even has wireless charging and Droid Ultra does not. The only other difference I can think of is it doesn't have active notifications like the others because it's not an OLED display - which to me is a good thing since LCDs are brighter and usually use less power than OLED.
I think other companies should take Moto's lead when they make a "mini" phone. It seems to me Moto is the only company that has done it right.