There are minis coming in all across the market, and a new report yesterday claimed that devices from Samsung, HTC, Huawei, and Lenovo are on their way to store shelves this year.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini - which already launched in the U.K. - will hit shelves elsewhere in the third quarter of 2013, Taiwanese manufacturers told DigiTimes.
Those sources confirmed that the HTC One mini, another highly anticipated device, will arrive at the same time, lending credence to previous rumors.
Also on the docket are previously unheard-of mini editions of existing Lenovo and Huawei smartphones that will arrive during the second half of the year, either Q3 or Q4, according to this report.
Why not just make them smaller to begin with?
This image is the only alleged photograph of the HTC One mini that we've seen so far.
The photo leaked last month with a set of alleged specs including a 4.3-inch screen, Android 4.2.2 with HTC's Sense overlay and a 1.4GHz processor that may be Qualcomm's Snapdragon 400.
The Galaxy S4 mini, on the other hand, is much less intangible; it launched already in the U.K. with a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED 960 x 540 display, 1.7GHz dual-core processor, 1.5GB of RAM, and 8GB of internal storage.
TechRadar asked AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile whether and when the Galaxy S4 mini might be arriving on their networks, but all four carriers responded that they have nothing to share at this time.
As for those Huawei and Lenovo minis, the sources gave no indication or further details about what exactly they might be.
They also mentioned Apple's rumored iPhone mini, though they had nothing concrete to say about that either.
- Speaking of minis - rumor has it the iPad mini 2 could ship in August.
Source : techradar[dot]com
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