HTC One mini 2 battery test

The HTC One mini 2 boasts many hardware improvements over its predecessor – it packs a bigger 4.5″ screen, the same Snapdragon 400 chipset but with four Cortex-A7 cores, instead of two Krait ones. There’s also a bigger 2,110 mAh battery over the 1,800 mAh unit of the One mini.

The software is new as well compared to when we reviewed the HTC One mini a year ago – the HTC One mini 2 launches with the most recent Android 4.4.2 KitKat with Sense UI 6 right out of the box.
The HTC One mini 2 didn’t get a particularly promising start in the call test. It got just two minutes shy of a 10 hour stretch which is rather mediocre in this day and age. The HTC One mini got a 12:04 hours, the Motorola Moto G managed 13:41 hours, the LG G2 mini reached 18:11 hours.

Talk time

  • Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 LTE 46:44h
  • Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III 10:15h
  • Samsung S7710 Galaxy Xcover 2 10:03h
  • Samsung Galaxy Express I8730 10:00h
  • Meizu MX 4-core 10:00h
  • HTC One V 10:00h
  • HTC One mini 2 9:58h
  • HTC One X 9:57h
  • HTC One S 9:42h
  • HTC One S C2 9:42h
  • Samsung I9103 Galaxy R 9:40h
  • Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 9:32h
  • Pantech Burst 4:46h
Web browsing is where things deteriorated even more. Here the HTC One mini 2 got 6:33 hours of constant browsing – compared to the LG G2 mini with 11:02h, the Motorola Moto G with 9:04h and the HTC One mini 8:12 h.

Web browsing

  • Sony Xperia C 12:45h
  • Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 6:38h
  • Sony Xperia Z 6:37h
  • Samsung S7710 Galaxy Xcover 2 6:35h
  • HTC Desire 600 dual sim 6:34h
  • HTC Desire 500 6:31h
  • HTC One mini 2 6:33h
  • Huawei Ascend P6 6:30h
  • Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III 6:27h
  • BlackBerry Z10 6:27h
  • HTC Butterfly 6:24h
  • Sony Xperia SP 6:18h
  • Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250 3:01h
Video runtime for the HTC One mini 2 stands at a measly 6:05 hours. Sure it will do for a moderately long trip on an airplane or bus but it will leave you with very little juice coming out of it. It appears that video playback is a weak point for minis, though – the HTC One mini didn’t do much better at 7:23h nor did the Moto G with 6:37h. LG however was an exception with a stellar 10:23 hours of video playback from its LG G2 mini. And while it lacks the higher 720p resolution of the HTC One mini 2, the LG G2 mini has a bigger 4.7″ display.

Video playback

  • LG G Flex 19:57h
  • Sony Xperia Z1 6:12h
  • HTC Sensation XL 6:12h
  • Nokia X 6:10h
  • LG Nexus 5 6:06h
  • Samsung Galaxy Pocket S5300 6:06h
  • HTC One mini 2 6:05h
  • Samsung i927 Captivate Glide 6:04h
  • Sony Xperia ion LTE 6:03h
  • Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250 6:02h
  • Motorola ATRIX HD MB886 6:01h
  • Sony Xperia T 6:01h
  • Nokia Lumia 710 3:27h
The HTC One mini outdid its successor HTC One mini 2 in each of our three tests but still got a lower 40 hour endurance rating (the time between charges if you perform and hour of calling, browsing and video watching daily) compared to the 50 hour one of the newer mini. And that difference comes down to stand by times where the HTC One mini 2 did far better. In comparison the Moto G has 4 hours more at 54 hours while the LG G2 mini stands tallest with an overwhelming 76 hours of endurance.

For more information on our battery testing or scores from other devices you can check out our Battery Test page and if you want to see more of the smartphone behind the test here’s our HTC One mini 2 review.

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