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July 2009
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The editors liked
Overall this is a massive improvement. The phone is well worth buying. What HTC has done is deliver an excellent consumer experience and bucket loads of functionality
From Google Maps to camcorder to easy access to applications.
Distinctive design
Teflon-coated casing
Sense UI is excellent
User-friendly and a joy to use
Android platform
Fully customisable
Polished Web browser
3.5mm headphone jack
Contacts integration with social networking
Responsive capacitive touchscreen
HTC's outstanding Sense UI
Great range of apps and widgets preinstalled
Web browser is a pleasure to use
Great range of apps and widgets pre-installed
The editors didn't like
Needs more processing grunt
Menus not as smooth to scroll through as the iPhone
HTC Sense Android OS, Multi-touch interface, Outlook contact/calendar sync, Visual voicemail, 3.5mm headphone jack,
5MP photos often out of focus, No flash, Sluggish operation, Confusing USB connectivity, Short battery life (4 hrs. talk), *
When it goes on sale on Oct. 11, the HTC Hero could rescue Sprint – this is easily the best iPhone-like handset the carrier has ever had. But the handset’s biggest drawback is its sluggishness – it doesn't react as instantaneously as...
Abstract: Sprint subscribers/Apple haters, rejoice. Your Hero, literally and figuratively, has — or will — arrive Oct. 11. It's not perfect, but, as modern interpretations of Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, Wolverine, et al. have lately illustrated, what hero is? ...
It will be hard not to gush here, because I really have enjoyed using the HTC Hero over the past couple of weeks. Everything just works, and is highly customizable, which is a real plus. It may sound like a small thing, but the customizable panels on ...
Abstract: In this past week’s newsletter I wrote up my first impressions of the HTC Hero from Sprint. I had previously been putting an unlocked HTC Hero (provided by PureMobile) to the test, which amazed me in the first 10 minutes of use by letting me connect to...
Abstract: It was written that a great Hero would rise from the East. He would be clothed in the sun and his unique user-interface would redefine the user experience for countless fans of social networking and his majesty would reign over all over Android phones ...
Great enhanced Android UI that's fun, fast and powerful. Capacitive display.
Needs a reboot every 3 days to keep things speedy.
It's hard not to love a Hero, the HTC Hero on Sprint in this case. It's replete with features and those features work well. HTC's customized Android is a joy to use: it's fun, efficient, full-featured and highly customizable. The phone is...
Camera flaunts touchonly zoom with taptofocus. Responsive touchqwerty more or less comparable to iPhone. Battery lasts for DAYS (36hours!). 3.5mm headphone jack. Flashenabled. Deadsimple USB mounting: Plug in, drag down top menu, and voila, the phone is c
SD slot is only accessible by removing cover. This Hero has Flash, but how about a camera with a flash? Optional haptic feedback is about as subtle as a 6.5 earthquake. Lack of image stabilization produces videos reminiscent of Cloverfield. 340 x 280 vide
HTC Sense provides great selection of widgets, Highly accurate touchscreen with haptic feedback, Very good Web browser, Sprint Navigation and Sprint TV included
No camera flash, Lackluster camcorder
Sprint’s first Android device is one of the best touchscreen smart phones on any network.
The HTC Hero offers a highly customizable user interface thanks to HTC Sense. It also improves on past Android devices with Outlook e-mail, calendar, and contacts synchronization, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a 5-megapixel camera. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS,...
The smartphone can occasionally be sluggish. Flash content didnt always work from the Web browser. Apps must still be downloaded to the phones internal memory. Media syncing software would nice, as would be a file manager.
While it could use a boost in the performance department, the HTC Hero is the most feature-packed Google Android device to date, bringing some notable improvements and a highly customizable interface.
