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When the call came for HTC to scale down their popular HD2, HTC came up with the HTC HD Mini. Then, at the mobile world congress this year, the Mini made its debut. Take a look at what it can do here in this short article.

When HTC does something “big” it is “big”. The HTC HD Mini on the other hand, does big things in a little way. It only weighs 110 grams. That is 3.88 ounces for the folks who are not on the metric system. It is just 4.1 inches tall. It can go into a pocket easily and feel like it is hardly there.

Even though it is small, it packs a 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen that has 320 by 480 pixels of power. It can display 65,000 colors. It still runs the older LCD form of screen, but as stated, is clear and bright. It comes with the proprietary “Sense” user interface that displays HTC´s own widgets over the Microsoft operating system. It can do the multitouch acrobatics with a pinch from the fingers. It can also trade the screen mode automatically from portrait to landscape with a turn of the device.

The interior workings of the HTC HD Mini are impressive as well. It runs the latest version of Windows Mobile Professional, version 6.5.3. The Windows Mobile system can connect to Facebook and Twitter. It has a browser that you can use the multitouch option with. There is no slowness in navigating with Windows Mobile. The Mini comes with 384 megabytes of RAM memory and 512 of ROM memory. This helps the speed of the smartphone just like it does when you add more memory on your own PC at home. The CPU is a fast 600 megahertz racer. It is made by Qualcomm, which makes processors for much of the mobile devices you are accustomed to these days.

The camera on the HTC HD Mini is a very nice five megapixel design. It includes flash and autofocus. It can also take video. The quality of the photos is wonderful and all the “grainy” patterns of cheap photos is done away with. The Mini can produce 2592 by 1944 resolution for photos. The audio section includes a FM radio, a speakerphone and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack.

Call coverage is taken care of with quad band and dual band HSDPA networks. The data connections are complete except for infrared. Wi-Fi is used with the “B” and “G” modes. The HD Mini has a unique ability to be used as a wireless WLAN ( Wi-Fi )hotspot. You can feed a connection to up to five different wireless devices. This is not a free option and the carrier providing this extra feature will be the one to decide how much you pay for it.

The HTC HD Mini has a strange affinity for large screws. The back of the phone has these at each corner. When you do venture to take off the battery cover, you find that everything is yellow. Only HTC knows for sure why it is completely yellow on the inside. Perhaps they are wanting their customers to focus more on their “geeky” side ? Whatever the reason, the battery is an average size and gives a respectable 6.6 hours of talk time. This model will be offered in Europe and Asia.