Samsung, HTC and Sony: Mini smartphones promise more than they think - TIME ONLINE

2013, several manufacturers have brought cheap mini versions of their top smartphones on the market. Only one of them will meet the demands of a top model.

2 January 2014 clock 15:45 2 comments

The HTC Mini One 4.3-inch display | © HTC

Galaxy S4, One and Xperia Z1, which are the current Topsmartphones of the three major manufacturers Samsung, HTC and Sony. All three have brought so-called mini versions of the top models on the market in the past year. With the addition of the mini manufacturers want to suggest that it is shrunken versions of the top models, which are also to get a cheaper price. But only one of them also has good technical features of the larger model obtained.

Topsmartphones the major manufacturers have large 5-inch touch screen display normally. Some customers want but a very well-equipped smartphone, the pocket-USEFULLY than a 5-inch device. You would then need is a 4.3 or 4.5-inch display.

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Triggered has the miniaturization Samsung with the launch of the Galaxy S3 Mini, which was launched in October 2012 and a month later came on the market. Thus, it was the first time a smart phone, which bore the name of the current Topprodukts and should convey so buyers the impression that they would get them a variant that has only a smaller display and housing.

However, even in the case of the Galaxy S3 Mini it was so that the device had not much in common with the normal Galaxy S3. Thus, the screen of the Galaxy S3 Mini with 4-inch display was not only smaller, but had to just 800 by 480 pixels, a significantly lower resolution. The computing power was at that time just average: Instead of a quad-core processor, the device has a dual-core processor, built-in mini camera does not reach the performance of the Galaxy S3 camera

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to this model Samsung followed up on end of May 2013 with the Galaxy S4 Mini. Again, the company attracted the buyer the expectation to get a spin-off of the current Topsmartphones Galaxy S4. And again, this time only slightly smaller display brought a significantly reduced resolution with it: When a screen diagonal of 4.3 inches, there were 960 by 540 pixels, the top model had a 5-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels.

The Galaxy S4 Mini also has only a dual-core processor, only 8 gigabytes of flash memory, and camera technology there is also significantly less power. Instead of the 13-megapixel camera of the Galaxy S4, the mini version has an 8-megapixel camera.