HTC MOBILE: HTC HD Mini

HTC HD Mini

The Mini is the pint-sized follow-up to the HTC HD2, our favourite-ever Windows Mobile phone. The HD2's touchscreen was huge, measuring 109mm (4.3 inches), and it was also the first Windows Mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen. The large display helped to make Windows Mobile's tiny icons big enough to poke with a finger, and the capacitive touchscreen made the HD2 feel more finger-friendly than phones with traditional resistive touchscreens, which require you to interact with them using a stylus or fingernail.

The Mini has a much less insane 81mm (3.2-inch) screen. That's the same size as the HTC Legend's screen, but the Mini's display has a smaller bezel around it, making the handset about 10mm shorter than the Legend. That makes the Mini feel quite trim. We thought the Mini's smaller stature could make it less usable than the HD2, but we were wrong. Like the HD2, the Mini gets the best out of Windows Mobile.