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The HTC Hero takes Android to the next level

After our in-depth hands on with the new HTC Hero / T-Mobile G1 Touch, we bring you a selection of pics of HTC's latest baby from the recent London event.

Featuring a full range of customisable home screens and widgets to give you control over the handset, we give you the full pictorial run down if you don't fancy having a look at our full HTC Hero review.

As you can see, it's something of a corker, though we do feel the processing prowess could have been a little better, and we're certainly not sure about that lip...

The home screen:HTC hero - home screen

Scrolling through the customisable portals:

The htc hero - scrolling through

Side-on view:

The htc hero side on view

The 3.5mm jack at the top

The htc hero - 3.5mm jack

All the buttons: call, terminate, home, search, menu and back buttons

The htc hero buttons

The lip - see if you like it

The htc hero - the lip

The back of the phone, showing the 5MP camera

The htc hero rear

The Twitter feed

The htc hero - the twitter feed

Messaging is improved in the HTC Hero

The htc hero messaging

The new HTC Hero music player widget

The htc hero music

Adding a widget

The htc hero widgets

The internet browser

The internet browser on the htc hero

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coolfx35


October 13th 2009

2. Got my HTC Hero yesterday at Best Buy and didnt even Pre order it. I traded in my Instinct HD for it. So at my best buy I was the first HD sold, first one returned then the first Hero out the door.

Its my first android phone and it blows the instinct out of the water in basically everything except for the camera, but I'm not buying a phone as my primary camera anyways.

There is no lag, it just transitions so smoothly, downloading apps is a breeze, setting up the phone is super easy and I'm not to tech savy.

The only I have to say is the keyboard is smaller on the Hero than the HD, but I like the feedback and word prompts on the hero, so in time I will adjust quickly. Also BB was not able to transfer my contacts over for some reason so I had to do it manually. I also like that you can link your facebook friends profiles to their contact. My wifes pre does this but its an all or nothing or at least thats the only way we could do it. This one you can take each friend and link it only if you want.

Overall I am very happy with the phone and looking forward to learning alot more about it.

Oh one more thing I did not get a Micro SD card adapter with mine. Did anyone else? Share your thoughts at http://www.HTC-Hero.com a dedicated site for HTC Hero. Take Care!

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optimaximal


June 26th 2009

1. So, are these major interface changes (not including the obvious carry over from the Windows Mobile skin) going to be entirely unique to HTC Android phones or are they software upgrades that rivals such as the new Samsung i7500 can enjoy?

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