HTC Hero - Smartphone - WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM - white

I have owned HTC's hero for 5 days now. I have been staggered by the fun I have had with it. This review is an honest punter's opinion. I'm not interested in listing the technical aspects. I would suggest that if you want that, you go to a respected website. As a punter, though, here are my comments, hopefully turning a complex sounding piece of kit into plain-ish English. To make the most of the phone you really do need the following:_ # A contract ...
...be "always on" i.e permanently connected to the web. It is a compete waste of this phone - and your money - to not use it for that purpose. # a desire to muck about with lots of web pages and virtual gizmos. # A Google account to allow you to personalise a lot of the functions Looks The phone looks very sleek. It has (on the brown one) soft touch feel to the plastic. I believe Orange are doing a graphite coloured one which sounds nice, and you can ...

nellymosser 11.08.2009 · Read full review
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...new avenues. Luckily the HTC Hero presented itself to me as a viable option and despite having seen the television advertising campaign a couple of months prior and mocking it's cringe worthy 'Hero' branding I still took the plunge as it posed the most impressive package from the choices available to me. Out of the box: At this time I was still adamant that I wanted and IPhone and realised that the HTC Hero was easily fetching £300 on auction sites. ...
...took the plunge on the HTC Hero and I no longer suffer from IPhone envy. Orange has announced that they will be releasing the IPhone 3Gs on the network by the end of the year and despite this revelation I am still very happy and content with my Android phone and the constant development of the Android Market will ensure longevity. ...

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== The HTC Hero == I test and review a lot of mobile phones, but in a mobile phone market dominated by Apple, Blackberry, Samsung and Nokia, I can't help but have a soft spot for HTC; I think it is a British thing, a love for the underdog… But as much as I admire HTC, I can't help but worry that in trying to take on competitors like the iPhone their new HTC Hero is punching above its weight. So I turned it on to find out… == Appearance == When ...
...to try to improve it, HTC call this new tweaked system 'Sense', and I was very impressed. Obviously the home screen was the first thing that I got to have a look at when I turned the Hero on, on top of a customisable wallpaper, you can add a range of shortcuts and widgets, including Android widgets, to a choice of seven home screens, which can be interchanged with a simple swipe of your finger. As well as a large choice of home screens, you can also ...

Luc2oo9 27.08.2009 (11.09.2009) · Read full review
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...use this phone to it's full potential! The thing that makes me think that the new iphone is better than this HTC Hero is that with the iphones you can have loads of applications to choose from, but with the Hero you're limited to what google has to offer. ...

ho11y 05.09.2009 · Read full review
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...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. The Hero's interface is one of the bests i have ever seen as it allows user to customize making the phone unique to all users. Here's the ...
...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 G-sensor is just an accelerometer which allows the device to perform some actions as turnig the display 90 degrees according to the movement. ...

sime92 16.08.2009 · Read full review
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...was wrong.Getting used to the htc is in fact very easy .The user interface is very user friendly . With the andoid market , adding program cannot be more easy.Just browse through the market, find a program and game (there is loads of free ones as well as paid one) and install it. There's direct link to facebook and twitter and those can easily be updated when on the move.Your friends tweets are automatically updated on the phone. Also sending and ...

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