The One Mini 2 will meet the needs of any iPhone 5 owner who relished the small form of their Apple smartphone. Sculpted from metal, studded in black and wearing the marks of precision craftsmanship, the Mini 2 truly is a sight to behold. Knowing HTC could have made this smartphone smaller yet is disappointing, but it’s a gripe easily overcome.

We all know that children sometimes have minds of their own. It can even happen that they are better than their parents in some things. We saw that the little ones even occasionally manage to surpass their big idols in Sony's Xperia Z1 Compact. Now HTC's One Mini 2 wants to show the bigger HTC One M8 how to do things better with longer battery runtimes and a high-resolution, rear-facing camera (for everyone who is not interested in HTC's ultra-pixel philosophy)...