Xperia Z3 Compact vs. HTC One Mini 2 Features, Specs, Display, Memory, Hardware and Latest News: A Comprehensive Review and Comparison

By Aishwarya Oct 31, 2014 09:20 AM EDT

Xperia Z3 Compact vs. HTC One Mini 2 Features, Specs, Display, Memory, Hardware and Latest News: A Comprehensive Review and Comparison

The smartphone market is generating a great battle between the manufacturers where the recent release Xperia Z3 Compact from Sony competes against the high-end phones. HTC has been a rapid contributor of this year's phone market where HTC One Mini 2 has achieved huge popularity with its advanced specification. Let's take a comprehensive look at the review of these smartphones.

The smaller sibling of Xperia Z3 named as Z3 Compact comes with 4.6-inch display that features 720 x 1280 pixels resolution. The display quality is moderately combined with 319 pixels per inch pixel density and X-Reality Engine that enhance the color the device. The display type is IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with Triluminos display. The device is IP68 certified that proves that it is dust and waterproof and can survive under 1m of water for over 30minutes. The HTC One Mini 2 is equipped with 4.5-inch display screen size that comes with better pixel density. One Mini 2 offers 326 pixels per inch and 720 x 1280 pixels resolution along with Super LCD2 capacitive type display.

The camera segment of Xperia Z3 Compact includes 20.7MP rear camera sensor and 2.2MP front camera just like its predecessor Xperia Z2. The HTC One Mini 2 features 13MP rear camera sensor but leads the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact in the selfie camera quality. The secondary camera of HTC One Mini 2 allows capturing selfies with 5MP of sensor. For selfie lovers aside from the HTC Desire Eye, HTC One Mini 2 is great choice for budget smartphones.

The hardware specification indicates Xperia Z3 Compact as the ultimate winner with Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset. The processor section is powered by Quad-Core Krait 400 chip clocked at 2.5GHz. The GPU emulator is provided with Adreno 330 based chip. The HTC One Mini 2 has moderated hardware components that include Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset along with Quad-Core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 processor. The GPU segment is slotted with Adreno 305 chip.

Both the devices have 16GB of internal storage space that can be expanded to 128GB by additional microSD card. Xperia Z3 Compact runs with 3GB of RAM whereas One Mini 2 has 1GB of RAM slot.