Sprint has finally made the hot HTC Hero smartphone available for $179.99, after a $100 mail in rebate. An upgrade offer is also available, while the contract relies on the Business Advantage message and data plan or Everything plan with data and two year agreement. As you can see, this version of Hero features no “chin”, the handset’s...
Orange Romania has just made HTC Hero available locally, with a pretty decent price tag of 349 EUR, plus a 2 year contract. The handset is also available for 375 EUR, for customers who want to extend their contracts with 24 more months or 389 EUR for 12 extra months. Hero is also available free of contract, for 427 EUR, a very reasonable offer, considering...
Among the Google phones scheduled to surface this year there was an interesting HTC Predator model we’ve discussed here and now it turns out that this handset is in fact the Verizon version of HTC Hero. This idea came up as Google and Verizon were signing a deal, meant to see a bunch of new Android devices launched via The Big Red. As you can...
Stuff Magazine has just awarded a couple of titles to the best gadgets of 2009 and among them we find the best of the very best, HTC Hero. The first Sense UI smarpthone received the “Gadget of the Year” award and it’s in high company, since the Apple iPod Touch received the “portable media player of the year” award, while...
People are already accustomed to the “chin” of the HTC Android phones Hero and G1, although the Sprint version of the former lacks this trait. HTC wanted to make it clear that the chin was an Android-only feat and that you won’t see such a design on HTC Windows Mobile phones. HTC’s design firm made the statement above in a recent...
The folks of Crunchgear have had some quality time with Sprint’s version of HTC Hero, judging every aspect of the handset, for us all to know. The most interesting aspect of this phone is that it lacks the famous “chin” from its design and it resembles T-Mobile’s My Touch quite a bit. There’s also a white trackball to...
There’s an upside to the fact that Americans can’t buy HTC Hero yet: it’ll have all its bugs fixed, by the time it reaches local carrier Sprint. And specially now, that HTC released a firmware update that fixes its sluggishness. Here’s a demo of the ROM update: HTC’s international sites are making the update available...
Sprint has finally announced HTC Hero at last, after quite a long wait and it seems that the device will be hitting the market on October 11th for $179.99. Also, as you might have noticed, the device will be available in its chinless version. The same specs of the original handset are kept, Exchange Active Sync included, plus the Sense UI we love so...
HTC Hero’s distinctive design element was its “chin”, also present on HTC’s first Android phone, Dream G1. Now there’s a photo going round the web, portraying Hero without its famous “chin” and we wonder what type of device this is… Since HTCs can go a long way, as far as customization is concerned (look...
Noah from Phonedog is at again, comparing two of the most important “iPhone 3GS killers”, HTC Hero and Palm Pre. What do the two hold against Apple’s shiniest toy? Multitasking? A hotter interface? Design? Find out from the video below: For starters, Palm Pre shares iPhone 3GS’ 600 MHz processor, while HTC Hero comes with a...
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