Phones are getting bigger; some are even too big for pockets. So what’s the answer to your too-big-to-use-as-a-phone issues? A mini Bluetooth phone that connects to your real phone, of course. Or at least that’s what HTC thinks. Meet the HTC Mini+. Yeah, that just happened.
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All right, so there is the HTC One mini, but how about something that is far smaller than that – where it is known as the HTC Mini? There were whispers of this candybar shaped handset going around earlier this year, and the main purpose of this particular device to exist would be to hook up to the HTC Butterfly. Just in case the HTC Butterfly sounds familiar to you, that is because it is better known as the HTC Droid DNA over in the USA. Well, the HTC Mini has more or less remained under the radar to most folks, being available only for the Chinese HTC Butterfly model to date, but it seems that it will also muscle its way to the UK market this time around.
The HTC Mini will boast of NFC connectivity, and resembles an old school cordless device. It will hook up to the HC Butterfly while functioning as an extended phone which can be used to handle your incoming and outgoing calls as well as text messages, in addition to letting you check out your phone logs and calendar entries all via its monochrome display. Apparently, Clove is accepting pre-orders for the HTC Mini at approximately $100 after conversion.
HTC Mini Could Arrive In The UK original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
In the golden era of the PDA, many debated whether future consumers would adopt a one-device or two-device approach. The two-devicers argued that the connectivity for phone calls would come from a simple, bare-bones cellphone while all the fancy data management would occur on a Bluetooth-tethered, PDA-like device unbound from cellular contracts. The Handspring Treo was for many the first converged-device handset that accomplished key tasks well enough to make a convincing case for handset integration, and the smartphone revolution ensued.
The first iPhone featured a large screen for its time but not a much larger footprint than its contemporary competitors such as the BlackBerry or Treo. Competitors asked if a 3.5-inch handheld palette was good for consuming web content, wasn’t a 4.3-inch display — like that on the HTC EVO 4G better? Screen sizes and attendant resolution continued to grow with the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note, 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II and culminating in the 6.1-inch Huawei Ascend Mate that debuted at CES. Samsung and Huawei are joined by LG, Sony and HTC in offering or announcing a 5-inch or larger Android phone. The latter joined the pocket-stuffing ranks with the 5-inch Droid DNA on Verizon, available in China as the HTC Butterfly.
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