WEBVTT 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:12.200 the fractal designed toine R4 case gets featured on the wow build logs of the 00:00:10.040 --> 00:00:18.920 week section more than any other case click now to learn more about it welcome 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:22.080 to an unboxing that I am super stoked on 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:23.640 or at least I was until I broke open the 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:27.920 seal on it and actually played around with it a fair bit before I got started 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:31.920 this is the HTC1 mini and this particular one is an AT&T version from 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:35.559 the US so if you're here in Canada then I have no idea how you'd get one comes 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:39.399 with a little bit of documentation wow that's in there really 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:44.239 good comes with a phone that you have to like actually legit pull on the tab in 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:48.320 order to remove comes with HTC's Sim changing tool which is holy crap it's 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:53.600 like they don't want you to take this thing apart comes with a wall wart some 00:00:50.440 --> 00:00:55.359 HTC stickers and a micro USB cable 00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:02.800 really wish micro USB would go away or at least be replaced by something better 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:04.439 but that is fine so so yeah the HTC One 00:01:02.800 --> 00:01:08.920 Mini let's go ahead and turn this baby on and go through what is interesting 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:12.840 and not interesting about it so let's start with the hardware spec I was 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:17.439 probably being unrealistic but when I first heard about the One Mini I was 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:22.000 really expecting this but smaller and that really isn't what happen so of 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:27.479 course it's a smaller screen this I understand it's a 4.3 versus a 4.7in 00:01:24.479 --> 00:01:29.000 display and in terms of real size that 00:01:27.479 --> 00:01:35.040 makes more of a difference than you'd think 4 in does so there's our size 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:37.600 comparison against the full-sized HTC1 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:41.840 it also downgrades to a 720p screen which I don't mind yet again because the 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:45.880 display density is still very good because it's smaller so you don't see 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:51.079 any of the individual pixels but what I really didn't like was the downgrade to 00:01:47.479 --> 00:01:53.520 a super LCD 2 display um this gives it 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:59.280 still great viewing angles but somewhat yellowish whites um somewhat less deep 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:03.920 blacks as well as a noticeable difference in color depth which is 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:08.520 mostly noticeable when you're looking at things like a list of emails where 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:12.640 they're colorcoded you know off white for un red and then white for red and 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:16.160 it's a little bit harder to tell the difference and it's not a huge deal you 00:02:14.440 --> 00:02:20.640 can tell the difference unlike older TN LCDs on computers but it just is a 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:24.319 little bit more fatiguing it still has the two front-facing boom sound speakers 00:02:22.760 --> 00:02:28.680 although they really don't go as loud as the ones built into the original one and 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:32.120 it still has the UltraPixel camera if I was going to say there's something that 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:37.280 I really do like about this phone it's the fact that it still has that 4 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:39.920 megapixel camera with large pixels and 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:44.800 the f2.0 aperture meaning you get great low light performance but it lacks the 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:52.120 optical image stabilization of the HTC1 CPU wise the One Mini uses an S400 1.4 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:55.040 GHz dual core versus the 1.7 GHz quad 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:59.560 core S600 in the HTC1 and this brings with it a couple of other disadvantages 00:02:56.920 --> 00:03:02.760 as well so it uses an adreno 305 GPU which is is much less powerful but n 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:07.840 less of a big deal than you might think because a 720p display has fewer than 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:11.319 half as many pixels as a 1080p display so if you're gaming you you don't 00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:15.360 actually need the horsepower to nearly the same extent but it also means that 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:20.239 it uses a different so that doesn't include Wireless AC support which is 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:24.599 pretty awesome with the HTC1 it's just faster Wi-Fi if you happen to have an AC 00:03:22.239 --> 00:03:29.760 router so it only goes up to Wireless N it uses sense 5 it runs Android 4.2.2 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:34.200 and it has an 1800 Milah battery which combined with the lower power requirements gives it similar battery 00:03:31.959 --> 00:03:37.480 life to the one which I usually get through a day so there's one out of 00:03:35.799 --> 00:03:42.200 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 00:03:39.959 --> 00:03:47.959 pretty heavily software wise let's talk about zo so the camera is I really like 00:03:45.640 --> 00:03:51.080 the camera um zo are something that I don't use a whole lot so it's this 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:55.680 little button over here and it allows you to take short little whoops sorry it 00:03:54.040 --> 00:04:00.360 allows you to take short little video clips that basically are supposed to 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:03.400 capture a snippet of life to me I feel like if I wanted to do that in much the 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:08.280 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 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:13.400 do that I would just record a short video and then I would use their excellent highlight reels feature in 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:16.759 order to re in order to review it and highlight reels has actually gotten 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:20.280 better already so it takes your pictures and videos from a given event or 00:04:18.479 --> 00:04:24.000 location and then puts them into a nice little 30- second thing that has some 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:28.280 like panning effects and zooming effects and stuff like that it puts it to music 00:04:25.919 --> 00:04:31.039 and starting with the HTC1 mini you no longer are stuck with the music that 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:36.440 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 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:41.520 blink feed which is supposed to be a big selling point of sense I personally 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:43.800 don't use it at all I'm more of a 00:04:41.520 --> 00:04:47.639 content creator as opposed to a Content consumer so if I had a lot of people 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:51.240 that I followed I'm much more likely to use blink feed but I tend to go straight 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:55.360 to the sources for things that I'm interested in knowing about so maybe I'm 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:59.479 a bit oldfashioned that way but I don't use blink feed at all on hand usage this 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:04.560 is where we're getting into things that I start to really like about the phone 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:08.360 it's really really nice when doing something as simple as typing a text 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:12.800 message to actually be able to reach that Q button I don't need it often but 00:05:10.880 --> 00:05:17.440 when I do need the Q button I really need to press it with that said it's not 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:22.120 perfect the plastic band around the outside of the phone is very glossy and 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:25.400 actually quite slippery to the point where I honestly had a little bit of 00:05:23.479 --> 00:05:28.240 trouble holding on to it even though it is much smaller why don't we take this 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:33.960 as an opportunity to talk about something else I really liked which is the industrial design of the phone it's 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:37.840 much much more beautiful than something like the Samsung Galaxy S4 which borrows 00:05:35.960 --> 00:05:42.440 a lot of the plastic elements from the full-sized S4 it's got that beautifully 00:05:40.479 --> 00:05:46.479 finished aluminum on the back it's got the aluminum front pieces here where the 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:50.120 speaker grills however the speaker girls are not manufactured with the same level 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:54.800 of precision as the HTC1 you can see the spacing is actually less dense I do know 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:58.240 that this was a challenge to get those micro holes drilled that closely 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:02.600 together and one thing that did sort of irk me a little bit was there's a lift 00:06:00.080 --> 00:06:06.000 on the plastic here so you can actually hear that so it's not quite completely 00:06:04.280 --> 00:06:11.280 flush along the front of the phone other than that it's pretty straightforward there's your micro USB on the bottom and 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:16.080 your volume rocker switches on the side yet another thing I really liked vastly 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:19.080 improved the volume switches on the HTC1 are really hard to feel when you're 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:23.720 touching them and which one you're touching and you know how uncomfortable they feel about you touching them uh on 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:28.720 the top you've got your headphone microphone combo Jack as well as your lock switch which I also feel as an 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:33.680 improvement over the flush mounted one on the HTC1 your micro SIM slot on the 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:37.319 side and other than that um yeah front-facing camera light sensor back 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:40.759 facing camera all these all these good things Beats Audio is still completely 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:43.840 unnecessary you should just pick up an audio player with an EQ such as power 00:06:42.520 --> 00:06:49.080 ramp and you can go ahead and set that up and it does come with 25 gigabytes of 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:52.520 Dropbox so let's get into the more of the reviewy stuff the things I liked and 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:57.879 didn't like let's talk about the screen 720p is a great resolution for a screen 00:06:54.840 --> 00:07:00.319 this size however the super LCD 2 screen 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:04.919 here just is plain not as good as the one on the HTC1 I didn't find it 00:07:02.960 --> 00:07:08.240 bothered me just looking at it but when I compare them side by side and I go oh 00:07:06.840 --> 00:07:13.400 man the one's really not that much more expensive um it's hard to justify going 00:07:10.599 --> 00:07:16.840 with this the camera really liked it all it lacks is Optical image stabilization 00:07:15.080 --> 00:07:20.720 and I have pretty steady hands and often I find Optical image stabilization 00:07:18.599 --> 00:07:25.080 particularly when it's not really well implemented like on our xa20 $2,000 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:28.960 camera bothers me more than anything else cuz it makes it really jerky when 00:07:26.479 --> 00:07:34.680 I'm panning uh the ID and materials are excellent the front-facing speakers are 00:07:30.840 --> 00:07:36.440 not quite HTC1 level they're really not 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:40.000 but it is a way to achieve better sounding sound without putting like a 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:44.159 huge oversized speaker like what Samsung did with the Note 2 let's move into what 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:49.400 I didn't like I don't like the variety there's a 16 gig skew and a 16 gig skew 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:52.360 and that is it I understand why they did it if they offered a 32 gig skew theyd 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:57.360 probably have to charge about another $100 for it which would move it pretty 00:07:55.000 --> 00:08:02.000 darn close in pricing to the regular one and at that point you are getting so 00:07:59.159 --> 00:08:06.560 much more for your money here this just would feel ridiculous I think HTC wisely 00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:11.919 decided that that skew didn't make any sense because it probably wasn't going to sell this is a more value oriented 00:08:09.919 --> 00:08:15.680 skew not necessarily for people buying a standalone phone but more for people 00:08:14.159 --> 00:08:20.159 buying on contract where we're not talking the difference between you know 00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:23.159 $500 and $400 actually the difference is a bit bigger than that but we're talking 00:08:21.440 --> 00:08:28.199 the difference between like $200 on contract and $100 on contract or $50 on 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:32.320 contract that's who the phone is targeted uh the typical slower support 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:35.760 for Android updates for lower-end models 4.3 is rolling out to the one I've seen 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:43.240 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 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:45.880 spec please anyone who's listening make 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:51.000 a high-end smaller Android phone I beg of you it would be great one that really 00:08:47.839 --> 00:08:53.600 feels premium um but I mean I understand 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:58.000 why it's not done honestly I didn't feel it in day-to-day use that it was slower 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:01.519 than the one or bothered me it's butter smooth to use the only exception being 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:04.880 when you're installing an application in the in the background and you're doing 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:09.320 something intensive in the foreground you can feel it a little bit but there's 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:14.720 more factors than just CPU speed and RAM for that sometimes the speed of the emmc 00:09:12.920 --> 00:09:17.399 flash drives that they're using on these things can be a big factor there as well 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:21.000 though I haven't tested the speed on this one no expandable storage still and 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:25.519 the camera app just really isn't that fantastic aside from having support for 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:28.760 Zo I I find their Gallery app is better than their camera app changing settings 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:32.959 you have to dig pretty deep within the menus to make changes and things like 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:36.480 their their white balance for video isn't always Great Indoors so you have 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:42.079 to change it to like tungsten or something like that to get reasonable white balance um I've seen better ones 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:47.839 it's not the worst thing ever but let's move this into discussing the whole form 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:49.880 factor thing 4.3 in versus 4.7 in which 00:09:47.839 --> 00:09:54.040 one is for you if you have extremely small hands then you might be stuck with 00:09:51.760 --> 00:09:59.720 something like an iPhone 5S or something like a One Mini or something like an S4 00:09:56.880 --> 00:10:02.760 mini um if you are able to handle the bigger phone I it's hard to not 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:06.680 recommend it especially if you're just buying an unlocked phone because the 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:11.320 hardware you're getting the capability you're getting is much broader and much 00:10:09.040 --> 00:10:15.800 better I wish and I mean Samsung's just as guilty of this as anyone else I wish 00:10:13.560 --> 00:10:19.040 that these mid-range phones weren't so cut down in fact I was a little bit 00:10:17.079 --> 00:10:23.079 frustrated with the Samsung rep telling me that the S4 Mini was basically just 00:10:20.839 --> 00:10:26.880 an S4 but smaller cuz it's not it actually runs similar Hardware to what 00:10:24.880 --> 00:10:31.640 you find in the One Mini and it has that same S4 plastic build to the point where 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:36.079 I'd say it's probably worth the extra few bucks to go with something like this 00:10:33.760 --> 00:10:41.079 so at the end of all this do I have a conclusion and recommendation not really 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:45.519 I hope that this gave you some idea of what my thoughts are on the One Mini but 00:10:42.800 --> 00:10:49.200 it's not as simple as go buy or don't go by because it's a very personal choice 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:53.839 when going with something like this but at the end of the day I'm not going to 00:10:50.760 --> 00:10:55.560 switch to it I tried it out um and I'd 00:10:53.839 --> 00:11:01.360 rather suffer with not being able to use it one-handed all the time and go with 00:10:57.760 --> 00:11:02.760 the HTC1 moving forward like this video 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.920 if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment and let us 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:11.399 know what you thought about it if you had feelings that were more 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