HTC will not produce more smartphone Mini

The Taiwanese company HTC seems to have lost interest in smartphones with less than five inch screens. As has been reported in a recent statement Jack Tong, a senior HTC, the market is right now clearly tilting towards phones with screens that are higher than the five-inch sizes. And since Tong has made clear that HTC intends to continue this trend, nothing makes us think that we will attend the launch of a new HTC One Mini 3.

 Thus, HTC will put an end to the range of mobile “Mini” that gave birth nearly two years ago with the launch of the first HTC One Mini (July 2013, with a 4.3 inches). “The industry is moving toward new phones with more than five inches in size,” said Tong, adding “our roadmap and also in that way”, as collected on the website of Asian FocusTaiwan. These statements of Jack Tong occurred outside a formal presentation on the Asian mainland HTC One M9 +, a new variant of the HTC One M9 (five inches) that incorporates a 5.2-inch screen.

 In any case, the HTC Mini range has never been known to incorporate some technical specifications in line with his older brothers, and has always treated mobile reduced both in size and features (regarding the flagships). For example, the HTC One Mini 2 was the compact version of HTC One M8, but also bring about a reduction of the screen size (five to 4.5 inches) also incorporated a lower processor (of a Snapdragon 801 a Snapdragon 400), less RAM capacity (from 2 gigabytes to 1 gigabyte) and a different main chamber (of a four megapixel sensor Dual sensor to 13 megapixels).

 And if that was not enough with these discouraging statements, followers of the Mini range of HTC should also remember that recently has been confirmed that the HTC One Mini 2 will not update any of the latest versions of Lollipop. The reasons do not seem very clear (it seems that the experience in this mobile Lollipop reached unless optimally everything should), but to be completely certain that confirmation, the owners of a One Mini 2 shall use their phones under version Android 4.4.2 KitKat until the end of the useful life of these terminals. The owners of higher-end phones from HTC, while both can start preparing for the arrival of update Android 5.1 Lollipop.

HTC will not produce more smartphone Mini