Whoever coined the phrase ’size doesn’t matter’ was obviously holding a HTC HD Mini in their hand at the time.

Although it doesn’t follow the recent HTC trend of operating on Anderoid 2.1, and instead has to make do with the slightly outdated Windows 6.5.3 system, this phone is still an impressive little pocket rocket that will be a useful mobile addition to any consumers life.

The smart looking handset is a unique design that is simple yet impressive. The casing encloses compact form and carries clean lines and is an elegant construction in all that means the HD mini doesnt look out of place in a teenagers hand or on a desk at work.

The HD mini handset features HTC Sense a user experience that is simply jam packed with useful applications.

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The personalisation options on this handset allow you to create your ideal phone by adding shortcut’s to your most important contact’s, web site’s and most utilised applications for your ease on the home screen. You can also prioritise your essential applications by arranging the key phone features and their tabs to suit your needs. Interaction with your contacts is also easily accessable as they are formatted into contacts rather than applications so all communication with a certain person will be easy to locate at any given time.

A great deal of emphasise has been placed on making the systems on the HTC HD Mini as simple as possible and there are many functions that can be used, and skipped between, with ease at the touch of a button. From email to a voice mail, going from e-mail conversation to a multi party conference call within just a couple of taps, tap your way into a conversation, share your own bright ideas and most recent pictures or even post your GPS location for others to come and meet you within a matter of taps.

There are other equally smart touches to the HD Mini that make users realise that there has been a lot of thought go into the design of the applications on this handset. The clever little things such as the animated screen paper that reflects your location, a ringing tone that knows when to get louder if it feels it hasnt been noticed or detects it is in a confined space where the tone may be muffled, and lowers when it is raised and realises that it has been picked up.  Similar to the i pod your music player will search the net for the album cover and places it in your library.

On the business side of the coin the HD Mini has capacitive touch technology, for easy touch control, which makes access and reading of work documents like word documents, web pages, PDF’s , e-mails, pictures simple. Using the e-mail options of the handset to make contact with business colleagues or updating the calendar so you don’t miss that all important meeting is also simple with the user interface tweaked to ensure maximum responsiveness when using your fingers to update whatever it is you need to keep on top of.

HD Mini at a glance;

Size: 103.8 x 57.7 x 11.7 mm

Screen:

3.22 320 x 480 HVGA

Memory:

  • microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
  • Supports up to 32 GB

Battery:

Standby time (maximum):

340 Hours

Talktime (maximum):

435 Minutes

Camera: 5 Megapixel