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as the successor to the

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. It is a smaller version of the

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. It uses an

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instead of the

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display that the

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and

use. However, it maintains the same features, chipset, CPU and GPU.

History

The Droid Mini was announced on 23 July 2013 at a joint Motorola and Verizon Wireless press conference.

Features

Notable changes from its predecessor include multiple hardware refreshes including CPU, GPU, RAM, display resolution and camera. Software features exclusive to Motorola branded smartphones are also included.

References

Android (operating system) devices Motorola mobile phones Mobile phones introduced in 2013 Discontinued smartphones {{Compu-mobile-stub