Oct
12
2010
Back in 2006 Jack Dorsey created the monster that is now known as Twitter (It was originally just “twttr”), and the site has since grown exponentially to the point where as of June 2010 around 65 million tweets are posted every day. Due to Twitter’s popularity and openness with their API, a slew of applications [...]
Sep
24
2010
Do you, or anyone you know have a Sprint SERO (Sprint Employee Referral Offer) plan? If so, then you’re probably aware that the plans don’t cover a lot of high-end Android phones anymore… at least, until now. It looks like Sprint is now throwing the HTC EVO 4G, Samsung Epic 4G, HTC Hero and Samsung [...]
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Aug
5
2010
The HTC Hero, one of Sprint’s all time best selling phones, has come back, this time with some attitude. To quote Brian Johnson, she’s “back in black”. Cellular South is now offering out HTC’s handset, with all the standard specs. It comes with Android 2.1 installed, and it priced at $129.99 on a two-year contract, [...]
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Aug
3
2010
While most of us are clamoring over which handsets will receive Android 2.2, we tend to forget about some other users who are still far behind that mark. For example, the HTC Hero on UK’s wireless carrier, Three. However, it looks like those Three Hero users (and we don’t mean the three users who have a hero…pun?) [...]
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Jul
26
2010
According to an article over at eurodroid, there has been news flowing in that HTC Hero users, locked in on Orange, are getting their updates (finally) to Android 2.1. So, if you’re on Orange with a Hero, go to your updates in your system settings and see if there is any 2.1 goodness lurking in [...]
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Jul
5
2010
HTC has officially released the Linux kernel source code for the HTC Evo and the HTC Hero (GSM and CDMA). What does this mean? For the average user, not much. But, for the developers, it means that they can now get everything up and running in their custom ROMs for these devices (like JIT and camera). Although [...]
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Jun
9
2010
The hotly discussed ‘will they, won’t they’ yesteryear debate of Ross and Rachel from friends pales in comparison with the saga of the HTC Android 2.1 Eclair update. With a large number of users stuck on older version, figuratively belching fury at HTC in disgust, there are more noises being made of a June release [...]
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Jun
7
2010
It would seem that the long-awaited Android 2.1 upgrade may be making the journey towards the West sooner rather than later – if recent reports are to be believed. After reports last week of the 2.1 update being made available to customers in Asia, Pocket Lint has reported that a statement advising a June arrival [...]
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Jun
4
2010
Hero owners rejoice! Android 2.1 is coming to a handset near you! Oh wait, you didn’t read the fine print. This is currently for Asian customers only. Sorry, but don’t worry, it will be available worldwide soon enough. As you know the Hero was stuck on Android 1.5, so this was a much needed upgrade. [...]
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