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the fractal designed toine R4 case gets featured on the wow build logs of the

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week section more than any other case click now to learn more about it welcome

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to an unboxing that I am super stoked on

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or at least I was until I broke open the

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seal on it and actually played around with it a fair bit before I got started

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this is the HTC1 mini and this particular one is an AT&T version from

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the US so if you're here in Canada then I have no idea how you'd get one comes

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with a little bit of documentation wow that's in there really

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good comes with a phone that you have to like actually legit pull on the tab in

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order to remove comes with HTC's Sim changing tool which is holy crap it's

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like they don't want you to take this thing apart comes with a wall wart some

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HTC stickers and a micro USB cable

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really wish micro USB would go away or at least be replaced by something better

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but that is fine so so yeah the HTC One

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Mini let's go ahead and turn this baby on and go through what is interesting

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and not interesting about it so let's start with the hardware spec I was

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probably being unrealistic but when I first heard about the One Mini I was

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really expecting this but smaller and that really isn't what happen so of

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course it's a smaller screen this I understand it's a 4.3 versus a 4.7in

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display and in terms of real size that

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makes more of a difference than you'd think 4 in does so there's our size

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comparison against the full-sized HTC1

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it also downgrades to a 720p screen which I don't mind yet again because the

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display density is still very good because it's smaller so you don't see

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any of the individual pixels but what I really didn't like was the downgrade to

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a super LCD 2 display um this gives it

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still great viewing angles but somewhat yellowish whites um somewhat less deep

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blacks as well as a noticeable difference in color depth which is

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mostly noticeable when you're looking at things like a list of emails where

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they're colorcoded you know off white for un red and then white for red and

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it's a little bit harder to tell the difference and it's not a huge deal you

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can tell the difference unlike older TN LCDs on computers but it just is a

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little bit more fatiguing it still has the two front-facing boom sound speakers

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although they really don't go as loud as the ones built into the original one and

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it still has the UltraPixel camera if I was going to say there's something that

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I really do like about this phone it's the fact that it still has that 4

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megapixel camera with large pixels and

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the f2.0 aperture meaning you get great low light performance but it lacks the

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optical image stabilization of the HTC1 CPU wise the One Mini uses an S400 1.4

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GHz dual core versus the 1.7 GHz quad

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core S600 in the HTC1 and this brings with it a couple of other disadvantages

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as well so it uses an adreno 305 GPU which is is much less powerful but n

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less of a big deal than you might think because a 720p display has fewer than

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half as many pixels as a 1080p display so if you're gaming you you don't

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actually need the horsepower to nearly the same extent but it also means that

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it uses a different so that doesn't include Wireless AC support which is

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pretty awesome with the HTC1 it's just faster Wi-Fi if you happen to have an AC

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router so it only goes up to Wireless N it uses sense 5 it runs Android 4.2.2

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and it has an 1800 Milah battery which combined with the lower power requirements gives it similar battery

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life to the one which I usually get through a day so there's one out of

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maybe 20 days that I don't make it all the way to the end of the day with the one and that's usually when I'm using it

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pretty heavily software wise let's talk about zo so the camera is I really like

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the camera um zo are something that I don't use a whole lot so it's this

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little button over here and it allows you to take short little whoops sorry it

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allows you to take short little video clips that basically are supposed to

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capture a snippet of life to me I feel like if I wanted to do that in much the

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same way that if I wanted to upload a short video to vine I would just upload a short video to YouTube if I wanted to

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do that I would just record a short video and then I would use their excellent highlight reels feature in

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order to re in order to review it and highlight reels has actually gotten

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better already so it takes your pictures and videos from a given event or

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location and then puts them into a nice little 30- second thing that has some

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like panning effects and zooming effects and stuff like that it puts it to music

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and starting with the HTC1 mini you no longer are stuck with the music that

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comes on the phone you can actually pick your own music and have your highlight reel go along to that now let's get into

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blink feed which is supposed to be a big selling point of sense I personally

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don't use it at all I'm more of a

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content creator as opposed to a Content consumer so if I had a lot of people

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that I followed I'm much more likely to use blink feed but I tend to go straight

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to the sources for things that I'm interested in knowing about so maybe I'm

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a bit oldfashioned that way but I don't use blink feed at all on hand usage this

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is where we're getting into things that I start to really like about the phone

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it's really really nice when doing something as simple as typing a text

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message to actually be able to reach that Q button I don't need it often but

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when I do need the Q button I really need to press it with that said it's not

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perfect the plastic band around the outside of the phone is very glossy and

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actually quite slippery to the point where I honestly had a little bit of

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trouble holding on to it even though it is much smaller why don't we take this

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as an opportunity to talk about something else I really liked which is the industrial design of the phone it's

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much much more beautiful than something like the Samsung Galaxy S4 which borrows

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a lot of the plastic elements from the full-sized S4 it's got that beautifully

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finished aluminum on the back it's got the aluminum front pieces here where the

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speaker grills however the speaker girls are not manufactured with the same level

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of precision as the HTC1 you can see the spacing is actually less dense I do know

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that this was a challenge to get those micro holes drilled that closely

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together and one thing that did sort of irk me a little bit was there's a lift

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on the plastic here so you can actually hear that so it's not quite completely

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flush along the front of the phone other than that it's pretty straightforward there's your micro USB on the bottom and

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your volume rocker switches on the side yet another thing I really liked vastly

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improved the volume switches on the HTC1 are really hard to feel when you're

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touching them and which one you're touching and you know how uncomfortable they feel about you touching them uh on

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the top you've got your headphone microphone combo Jack as well as your lock switch which I also feel as an

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improvement over the flush mounted one on the HTC1 your micro SIM slot on the

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side and other than that um yeah front-facing camera light sensor back

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facing camera all these all these good things Beats Audio is still completely

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unnecessary you should just pick up an audio player with an EQ such as power

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ramp and you can go ahead and set that up and it does come with 25 gigabytes of

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Dropbox so let's get into the more of the reviewy stuff the things I liked and

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didn't like let's talk about the screen 720p is a great resolution for a screen

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this size however the super LCD 2 screen

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here just is plain not as good as the one on the HTC1 I didn't find it

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bothered me just looking at it but when I compare them side by side and I go oh

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man the one's really not that much more expensive um it's hard to justify going

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with this the camera really liked it all it lacks is Optical image stabilization

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and I have pretty steady hands and often I find Optical image stabilization

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particularly when it's not really well implemented like on our xa20 $2,000

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camera bothers me more than anything else cuz it makes it really jerky when

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I'm panning uh the ID and materials are excellent the front-facing speakers are

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not quite HTC1 level they're really not

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but it is a way to achieve better sounding sound without putting like a

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huge oversized speaker like what Samsung did with the Note 2 let's move into what

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I didn't like I don't like the variety there's a 16 gig skew and a 16 gig skew

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and that is it I understand why they did it if they offered a 32 gig skew theyd

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probably have to charge about another $100 for it which would move it pretty

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darn close in pricing to the regular one and at that point you are getting so

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much more for your money here this just would feel ridiculous I think HTC wisely

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decided that that skew didn't make any sense because it probably wasn't going to sell this is a more value oriented

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skew not necessarily for people buying a standalone phone but more for people

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buying on contract where we're not talking the difference between you know

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$500 and $400 actually the difference is a bit bigger than that but we're talking

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the difference between like $200 on contract and $100 on contract or $50 on

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contract that's who the phone is targeted uh the typical slower support

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for Android updates for lower-end models 4.3 is rolling out to the one I've seen

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absolutely no word of it for the One Mini although it is a very new phone so we'll see and the typical much lower

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spec please anyone who's listening make

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a high-end smaller Android phone I beg of you it would be great one that really

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feels premium um but I mean I understand

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why it's not done honestly I didn't feel it in day-to-day use that it was slower

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than the one or bothered me it's butter smooth to use the only exception being

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when you're installing an application in the in the background and you're doing

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something intensive in the foreground you can feel it a little bit but there's

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more factors than just CPU speed and RAM for that sometimes the speed of the emmc

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flash drives that they're using on these things can be a big factor there as well

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though I haven't tested the speed on this one no expandable storage still and

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the camera app just really isn't that fantastic aside from having support for

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Zo I I find their Gallery app is better than their camera app changing settings

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you have to dig pretty deep within the menus to make changes and things like

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their their white balance for video isn't always Great Indoors so you have

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to change it to like tungsten or something like that to get reasonable white balance um I've seen better ones

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it's not the worst thing ever but let's move this into discussing the whole form

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factor thing 4.3 in versus 4.7 in which

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one is for you if you have extremely small hands then you might be stuck with

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something like an iPhone 5S or something like a One Mini or something like an S4

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mini um if you are able to handle the bigger phone I it's hard to not

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recommend it especially if you're just buying an unlocked phone because the

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hardware you're getting the capability you're getting is much broader and much

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better I wish and I mean Samsung's just as guilty of this as anyone else I wish

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that these mid-range phones weren't so cut down in fact I was a little bit

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frustrated with the Samsung rep telling me that the S4 Mini was basically just

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an S4 but smaller cuz it's not it actually runs similar Hardware to what

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you find in the One Mini and it has that same S4 plastic build to the point where

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I'd say it's probably worth the extra few bucks to go with something like this

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so at the end of all this do I have a conclusion and recommendation not really

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I hope that this gave you some idea of what my thoughts are on the One Mini but

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it's not as simple as go buy or don't go by because it's a very personal choice

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when going with something like this but at the end of the day I'm not going to

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switch to it I tried it out um and I'd

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rather suffer with not being able to use it one-handed all the time and go with

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the HTC1 moving forward like this video

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