HTC Hero Android Smartphone
by Sze | Filed under Mobile Phone, Smartphone
HTC officially announced the Hero that is the company’s third Android smartphone (the G3). Like the Magic (G2), the Hero is boosted by Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz processor. It has 512MB ROM and 288MB RAM.
As the HTC’s third Android phone, the cellphone maker tries to improve the phone with the HTC Sense, which includes Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected features. It is the first Android phone to ship with support for Adobe Flash.
The Hero has a 3.2-inch 320×480 touchscreen LCD display, a trackball with enter button, a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera and integrated GPS receiver. It supports Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR/A2DP and WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity. The smartphone packs also G-sensor, microSD/SDHC card slot and digital compass.
HTC Hero’s media player supports MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and WMA9 audio files and MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, WMV9 video formats. If offers a 3.5mm headphone jack. The White HTC Hero will have Teflon coating that keeps things clean and grime free. Hero will be released in Europe in July, Asia in Summer and N. America later this year.
First Look video:
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android sucks, iphone rules!!!!
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I’m not going to compare it to the iPhone because they are very different animals, all I have to say is that Android’s community support is phenomenal, it’s the reason I got the G1 and so far I’m stoked with the way things are going.
The phone/OS hasn’t been out for a year and look where we are at already; almost every user/community request has been answered or is being worked on; either officially or by the community itself, the point is that it’s a huge open source success.
happy to see a phone like the HTC Hero coming to the U.S. Market, already found forum for it at http://www.HTC-Hero.com let’s get some discussions going guys.
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