HTC One Mini Heads to Australia with Release Date at Telstra on September 17 and Vodafone in Early October

HTC has previously confirmed that the HTC One Mini smartphone will arrive in Australia with the available silver and black colour choices. Now, Telstra and Vodafone revealed that they will start offering the consumers with the smaller and more compact version of the HTC One.

The HTC One Mini with the glacial silver colour choice will be put up for sale on September 17 at Telstra while the Vodafone availability on the stealth black version will start in early October. Telstra's main plan will be a $2 handset repayment with the $60 plan on a two-year contract.

The Telstra plan comprises of $600 worth of phone calls, MMS messages, unlimited SMS messages and 1GB of data per month. The HTC One Mini outright retail price at Telstra is worth $480 and the device will be offered as well on a variety of contract plans.

Additionally, Telstra will start taking online pre-orders for the HTC One Mini on Tuesday, September 3. The first 500 customers who placed their pre-orders will be receiving a free Dr. Dre Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker priced at $249.

On the other hand, Vodafone will exclusively offer the HTC One Mini in Stealth Black colour choice in early October. However, the company has not given any announcement yet to confirm the pricing and plan details for the Taiwanese handset.

Basically, the HTC One Mini is the downsized version of the HTC One flagship. According to the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer, they designed the Mini to provide consumers with the exact same experience with the mid-range price point and no compromises.

The HTC One Mini sports an almost identical look to the HTC One with the familiar aluminum body design, dual front-facing speakers and the UltraPixel camera technology even though it lacks the Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) feature.

The HTC One Mini version boasts with the 4.3-inch LCD3 screen display with 720p resolution, the power of a 1.4GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage capacity.

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