HTC makes a great flagship smartphone but overlooked its midrange, and it has the dreary sales figures over the past couple of quarters to prove how shortsighted that was. Swinging in to save 2014, then, is the HTC One mini 2, a 4.5-inch version of the One M8 which promises to distill down the best of its bigger brother, but with a more palatable price tag. We’ve been burned by lackluster “Mini Me” phones before, though, so does the One mini 2 keep enough of the charm? Read on for our full review.

Design and Build

It’s saying something when the most awkward thing about a phone is its name. HTC will win no awards for clarity with One mini 2’s ungainly title, but we can’t much fault the handset’s design and construction.

The familial resemblance between it and the One M8 is instantly clear. Both have the same curved, brushed metal chassis design, with slightly oversized top and bottom bezels up front, and a pleasingly arched back with only minor strips of plastic crossing it for antenna purposes.

The budgetary restraints of a midrange phone have forced HTC to range in its designers some, however, and so the One mini 2 misses out on the M8’s obsessive-compulsive construction technique. Rather than milling a solid chunk of aluminum, injecting plastic into the groves, and then running the whole thing through a CNC machine to make a zero-gap unibody, as on the flagship, HTC instead uses separate pieces.
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