HTC Hero Android Phone Details
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HTC Hero is now Available from Orange UK |
The HTC Hero is HTC's third handset to be powered by the android operating system. Announced at a press event in London in June, the HTC Hero is one of the best spec'd HTC Android devices to be launched across Europe.
The HTC Hero is a purely touchscreen device that features a 3.2-inch TFT-LCD display with a 320 x 480 resolution, 5 mega-pixel auto-focus camera, 3.5 mm audio jack, and a custom built HTC user interface.
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HTC Hero is now Available from Orange UK |
Here's the full specification of the HTC Hero handset:
- Qualcomm's MSM7200A proc running Android at 528MHz
- 512MB/288MB ROM/RAM
- 3.2-inch TFT-LCD display with a 320 x 480 resolution
- 900/2100MHz HSPA and Quad-band GSM
- Trackball
- Internal GPS
- Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP support
- 802.11b/g WiFi
- 3.5mm Audio Jack
- 5 megapixel auto-focus camera
- microSD expansion
- G-sensor
The HTC Hero Android phone will launch across Europe in July, followed by Asia, and the US later in 2009.
The HTC Hero phone will be available in 7 different colour styles including black, white, yellow, pink, gold, red and turqouise, and will include the much anticipated custom HTC Android user interface 'Rosie'.
More HTC Hero information and discussion can be found in the HTC Hero Forums
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January 12th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Whatever you do, do *not* let my daughter see this
January 12th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Another ugly Android phone. Can’t HTC make one good looking one? Their WinMo range is beautiful!
January 12th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
ugly? its whats on the inside that counts!! screw pentium, “Android Inside”
January 13th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Correct cbowley, I’d rather have a fantastic phone than a fantastic looking phone, that said. I love the chin, I can rest the phone on its ‘face’ and be safe that the touch screen is elevated.
I dropped mine for the first time recently it has a tiny scratch at the top and bottom, none on the face. LOVE IT. If that was my old BB or Nokia, I’d be somewhere sulking.
The things I want in the successor to the G1 form factor are:
1. 3.2 MP camera with a better lens and some LED flash (doesn’t work well but its better than nothing).
2. Sturdier Hinge (mine is very slightly sagging)
3.Keyboard back light button, so it doesn’t go off if I stop tying for 5 seconds or turn on during the day and waste precious battery life.
4. 3.5mm jack, self explanatory.
5. Small D-Pad around trackball (for long scrolling and more precision)
6. 16GB Model (not necessarily all models, but the option would be nice).
January 17th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
1. Agreed.
2. Mine’s ok.
3. Agreed.
4. I think the new ones do have one.
5. Agreed.
6. You can “mod” your current phone to 16GB! Just go and buy a 16GB microsd card (60$ or so on amazon) and install.
January 17th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
i think the htc hero sorta looks nice…more like a touch diamond. i dont really like the design of the g1 thoughh…so im still waiting for a good-looking android phone
January 19th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
The only things that I feel are impportant to this phone are its ability to use the phones functions and not worry about where your going to charge it if your not close to car or ac outlet. T-mobile should have had this 2600 mili Amp hour battery as an option when the phone was released. It Seems there were plenty of concerned people out there. I made a few external LI-ion batteries from ipod powered protection sleeves that really work well. 2 charges from one battery. 2. The camera has enuf megapixels to handle a zoom feature and flash. 3. THIS IS A GREAT PHONE PERIOD. I knew sooner or later a phone like this would emerge. Thanx t-mobile and google to offer one package that does just about everthing I need in phone. Being able to download a program and get rid of it if you don’t like it is a feture that is priceless. Enuf said
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Same as the new AT&T Microcell but it has only the details. It will come soon. Interesting thing is its support 3G.
March 31st, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Прикольно и полезно, а будет еще что-то по этой теме?
April 9th, 2009 at 7:44 am
yea nice Work
May 25th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Desing is also important, that’s why apple is such a great company!
June 14th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
1. Design is only important to 14 y/o emo fukkheaDS.
2. Apple is not a great company, apple created a fad. It will fade once people realize cheap mp3 players from walmart can do everything a ipod does.. and for less money. Don’t get me started on apple..
-apps cannot run in background (listen to music while you browse the web? nope)
-any house i go to has a usb cord in case i forget my charger (you need a special apple plug for that)
-i can remove my 16gigs and copy something onto my friends phone. Or upgrade and get more (ipod only have 8, 16, 32 – fail)
-I can tether my netbook to my g1 (apple? nope)
-i can download music from ANYONES computer (no itunes needed)
-i can get tons and tons of free apps
-android – “theres an app for that”
suck a dick apple you overcharging, non open source, safer version of microsoft
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:14 am
It seems that the gadget device will arrive at Wednesday of this month
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:24 am
I mean Wednesday on this week
June 24th, 2009 at 7:37 am
htc intentionally makes ugly phones based on android to hamper the spread of the OS. MicroSuck have a hand in this shit too. htc & ms are good friends
June 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Actually the design looks pretty nice and original to me
June 25th, 2009 at 2:03 am
@CBowley
“1. Design is only important to 14 y/o emo fukkheaDS.”
Do you really believe that? If this were really true why would design houses be paid multi-million dollar contracts to come up with new and innovative design concepts to attract a market that consists of children with no disposable income? Design certainly matters, probably a lot more than you imagine.
Why must every phone be compared to the iPhone? The HTC Hero looks like a cracking phone, I will certainly be taking a look at it once it is released in the UK. There are things I can do on my iPhone really, really well and easily. I’ve had hundreds of mobile phones and I find the iPhone does exactly what I want from a phone and well. That said, the Hero looks like a device that I would use.
Invariably and comparison to an iPhone has one glaringly obvious mistake. “listen to music while you browse the web? nope” You appear to have spelled ‘yes’ incorrectly at the end of that statement.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:47 am
htc hero is great design and flexible
cool pda
June 27th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
who will be carrying this phone will it be T-mobile????
June 28th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I partially agree with CBowley in that Apple have overlooked build quality and have based there whole marketing strategy on “faddish” behaviour, everyone i know who has an iPhone has had to get it repaired atleast once.
I also think the HTC Hero is a very good looking phone, lets just hope the build quality is better than the iPhones.
The UI sounds very good aswell, to the extent that i think this could be a so called “iPhone killer”.
I will definately be purchasing one in the very near future.
June 28th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
also could anyone tell me why it doesn’t have a light for the camera. It seems like such lazyness not to add one.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:31 am
@Freddy: Orange UK will be carrying this. I’ve been messing around with Andriod on my HTC Touch Diamond (yes – it is possible) and I like the way it does things. This new phone looks awesome
June 30th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I’m so not sure about this phone, i have been in love with htc magic for months and i was waiting for it to come to portugal to buy it, but now with this i’m not sure what to do, in one hand i don’t know if the new interface will work for me, having loads of screens with a screen for every app seems like i just would never manage to organize myself lazy as i am, on the other hand it has clearly superior specs and lots of atractions when compared to htc magic, so… don’t know what to look for :S
July 6th, 2009 at 5:00 am
why is everyone comparing this to the iphone? ive got an xperia that is buggy as hell (thanks to windows mobile) im going to get rid of it and get the htc hero, whats under its good is a definate iphone killer, they’re in two seperate leagues and i heard that the iphone 3gs only costs $6 to make……..
September 5th, 2009 at 5:57 am
I have the Hero now 2 weeks in use. Before I had the Nokia E71.
The Hero is … immature. The operating system as well as the phone itself are more like a Beta release. For example: The big button on the left to put the ring tone louder or softer is to easily activated. The result is that my phone is most of the time on Silent mode. This is extremely enervating !
The OS Android is also inconsistent and therefore very unintuitive (at times). For example: Sometimes you go out of a setting simply by using the back button. But in case you manually input a new access point, you may not forget to scroll down the entire screen and press SAVE first or if you push the back button, you get NO warning and you can start all over again.
I happen to lose also sometimes items (like the clock or the weather) from my home screen, because I forget to shut the screen before I enter the phone back in my pocket.
Not all text input screens can be put in to landscape. The search input in Google for example can not. To make it even worse also the predictive text input does not function in this Google search. So entering text is really a hit and miss with plenty corrections.
Also missing is an overview of the open (functioning programs) So you never now what is active and what not. When you go out of a program you have to use the back button. It is than never clear if this program is thereby closed or still running in the background.
Nimbuzz can not make Calls only chat. Very big handicap !!!
In general I can say that this Android telephone is a test for my patience. Where the E71 was very intuitive and for business this Hero is for playing only ! Browsing for example is better on the beautiful HTC screen. But even the camera is tooooo slow. Usually when I make a picture, with myself also on, I have to wait several seconds after pushing the button, or I have nothing but blur. By the way, you have to push the mouse button, because no dedicated shutter button.
Like I said: The HTC Hero has a lot of potential but not in this version yet.
September 5th, 2009 at 6:37 am
An other really stupid thing on this Hero is that if you tap in the “to” field when you are composing a text message and you start to enter a name of a recipient, for example Mar (if you want to send to Mark) than you expect the telephone to suggest you people who’s name is in your contact list starting with Mar ? Right ? Nope!!! It will suggest you only their telephone numbers instead of their names. Is this a joke of these Android people ? Or is it for these geek programmers obvious that I will remember everybody’s number instead of their names? Things like this make me really shake my head from amazement.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:43 am
I too have had a HTC Hero for two weeks and am seriously considering sending it back to Orange. It’s just too slow and the fact that the sleep button and the end call button are the same means you have no idea whether or not you have hung it up!
The delays on the touch screen for text messaging is also laborious often resembling a PC with a memory problem where you type an entire sentence and then a few seconds later the entire thinks appears on screen. The force feedback options for texting whilst brilliant only make this matter worse.
the uncertainty of what applications have closed or just minimised is also a massive problem, resulting in everyone on Android downloading TasKiller to continually check whether or not that browser just closed.
October 6th, 2009 at 9:58 am
This phone is great so I hear I’m getting it when it comes out
October 6th, 2009 at 9:59 am
So screw you guys who don’t like it!!
October 11th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I have had the HTC Hero for about a month and at first i was impressed by it then i started to dislike it as it was getting slower and slower i have just installed the new ROM update of the HTC website and the phone has become alot quicker and works alot better and am happy again with the phone so if people are having problems with how slow the phone is then i would Recommend update the ROM and things should be better
October 20th, 2009 at 2:13 am
lol @ people complaining,
i have no problem with it! works fine for me…
have it for 3 weeks now
October 21st, 2009 at 1:04 am
I like the htc hero phone factor
October 21st, 2009 at 9:48 am
ive now had the htc hero for serveral months and it is the best phone ever … i have had the iphone and i must say the htc is much better with the iphone u cannot really change the look of your phone yet with the htc you can change anything u want to and make it your own .. also it can do everything the iphone can do, so i wud advice anybody to buy this phone !!!!!!!
October 25th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Gettin th HTC Hero this week and I can’t wait
. I have fallen in love with th phone, I just wish they had other colours.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Every one! Trust the Hero you wont regrett it
With the new update it’s the best i ever held in my heands
December 15th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
I Had mine for over 3 mounth already and i had no problem with it I love it. Many usefully android application are available for it.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
its really awesome phone….i love it….best phone ever made
January 12th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
do you need unlimited internet access touse things like the weather app and such like?
January 16th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
wow. that is alot of information.
January 17th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Good post, thanks for the good info
January 27th, 2010 at 6:44 am
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February 2nd, 2010 at 2:10 am
This is the best phone i ever had, and i have tried lots of them. I use it for so many things during a day that i must charge it every night, even that dosent bother me:) Love the way i can tune it into my own “personal” phone. When i walk in the door were i work it logs on to the wifi net and automatic turns into work mode, when i get home it logs on my private wifi changses into my “private” phone. Look forward for Android 2, thou i must say i dont know what they can do better:) Thanks HTC and Google!
February 24th, 2010 at 11:12 am
I have had the phone for about a week – love it but the issue with not knowing what programs are running and the inconsistent keyboard UI’s is quite frustrating. Good phone but they need to make some pretty important additions. Also, no flash on the camera? WTF?
February 24th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
This phone kicks A$$…….plain and simple this phone is Awesome! (period)
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