T-Mobile Pulse becomes smaller and cheaper – Pulse Mini

The Huawei-made handset will be a smaller and cheaper version of T-Mobile Pulse which became quite popular when it was launched last October for its ultra-low Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) price of £176.16 (it now retails for £149.99).

Pulse Mini and Pulse have some common features. They both support GPRS, EDGE, 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth and come with microUSB port.

Other common bells and whistles are 3.5mm headphone jack; Push Email/Email/SMS (threaded view)/MMS/IM support; A-GPS; Voice Memo and microSD card slot (expandable up to 16GB).

However, this is where the similarity ends.

The first noticeable difference between T-Mobile Pulse Mini and T-Mobile Pulse is their size and weight. Pulse measures 116x63x13.5mm and weighs 130gm while Pulse Mini is noticeably smaller and lighter. And, unlike Pulse Mini which has D-pad controller, Pulse has a trackball for navigation.

Another difference between the two handsets is their display (Pulse Mini has 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen with 240x320 pixels display that supports up to 256,000 colours while Pulse boasts of a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen with 320x480 pixels resolution display that supports up to 65,000 colours). And though both the handsets feature accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, Pulse supports multi-touch input method which Pulse Mini doesn't.

And, though both the smartphones boast of 3.15-megapixel camera, Pulse Mini's camera comes with LED flash and a secondary front-facing VGA camera that allows you enjoy the video-calling fun everyone's having these days.

Other differences pertain to their OS (Pulse Mini comes with Android 2.1 OS while Pulse features the older Android 1.5 OS), media player (Pulse Mini's media player supports MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ music and MP4/H.264/H.263 video formats while Pulse's media player supports MP3/AAC+/WAV music and MP4/H.263/H.264 video formats) and network support (Pulse Mini supports triband 2G network while Pulse supports quadband 2G network).

And, of course, Pulse Mini is cheaper. While Pulse retails for £149.99, Pulse Mini can be yours for as little as £99.99.