Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini vs HTC One Mini: If you can't afford the larger screen variant there are mini variants which are more affordable. These two mini variants had been a great rival in terms of compact phones yet powerful.
Though these mini variants offers lower specs than of its larger variants. The Samsung Galaxy S5 mini is dust and water proof which gives it's a better choice, but let's pit down these two mini phones and you which is better. Check out this comparison from The Fuse Joplin.
Display and Screen
The two mini versions share the same screen size at 4.5inches, the same resolution of 720x1280pixels and 326ppi.
It is interesting to note that the Samsung Galaxy S5 mini featuresa Super AMOLED scree, while the HTC One mini sports a Super LCD2 (liquid crystal) show.
Their dimensions are 131.1×64.8×9.1mm for the Samsung Galaxy S5, and the One Mini 2 are 137.4x65x10.6mm. The S5 mini is said to be 17grams lighter than the One Mini 2 that weighs around 120grams.
Hardware and OS
Galaxy S5 mini is powered by a quad core Cortex-A7 processor clocked speed 1.4GHz, and an Exynos 3 Quad 3470 with Mali-400MP4 graphics it is supported by a 0.5 GB of RAM higher than the HTC One Mini 2.
The HTC One mini 2 has lower processor clocked speed at 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM. and powered by a combination of Qualcomm snapdragon 400 chipset + Adreno 305 GPU.
Both phones originally runs on Android 4.4.2 Kitkat and may receive the Android 5.0 Lollipop update. They also share the 16GB internal storage and expandable up to 128GB of external storage.
Batteries
Both phones are backed up by 2100 mAh battery, but it lasts longer on HTC One Mini 2 that allows users to talk 16 hours on 3G and 10 hours of talk time on 3G on the Samsung Galaxy S5 mini.
Camera
HTC boasts higher megapixel at 13MP and 8MP on its rival. It also sports a 8MP front snapper and 2.1 MP on the Samsung Galaxy S5 mini
.Price
These devices cost around 400 dollars. The Samsung Galaxy S5 mini costs $7 higher on Amazon.