We’re at HTC’s London press event this morning, and as expected the company announced the HTC Hero. The third Android smartphone from HTC, the Hero has the same 3.2-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen, HSPA and WiFi b/g connectivity, but throws in HTC Sense, the company’s latest custom UI. HTC Sense includes various widgets and shortcuts to allow access to apps like Twitter, Facebook, contacts, calendar and other functionality direct from the Android homescreen. They’ve also reworked the on-screen keyboard, bringing better word-correction and auto-completion.
Other specs for the Hero include a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, GPS, and a Teflon-covered casing which, according to HTC, means that the phone isn’t “cold and slippery”. The screen has a fingerprint-resistant coating, which we found didn’t so much avoid prints in the first place as it did shed them more readily when you wipe it.
There’s also a 3.5mm headphone jack and Adobe Flash support, which means you can access sites like YouTube in the Android browser. It’s expected to land in Europe come July, Asia later in the summer, and in a US format sometime later on in 2009. We’ll have hands-on video with the HTC Hero as soon as it’s processed.
Update: Hands-on video is here
hope it gets ported to the G1 lol...
http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/specification.html
Its basically the htc magic with the cpu clocked at 528mhz and headphone jack.
A bit disappointed regarding the cpu (was hoping for the same cpu as 3gs), but it should be pretty fast. Cyanogen 3.4.4 ROM is clocked at 528mhz and its very smooth on the g1.
The extra RAM should allow for lots of widgets without slowing down the phone.
Hopefully htc tweaked some of the internals so that we get 2d hardware acceleration. That should improve the UI responsiveness if they did that.
Chin doesn't look that great, but i'll live.
hero looks hot, the ui even better, but.. it still doesn't differ much from g1 as specs go.. yea 5 mp cam, 288 mb ram, but still has same processor.. by the time it gets launched stateside, we'll probably be able to choose between hero or the huawei phone (G3)
Its basically the htc magic with the cpu clocked at 528mhz and headphone jack.
A bit disappointed regarding the cpu (was hoping for the same cpu as 3gs), but it should be pretty fast. Cyanogen 3.4.4 ROM is clocked at 528mhz and its very smooth on the g1.
The extra RAM should allow for lots of widgets without slowing down the phone.
Hopefully htc tweaked some of the internals so that we get 2d hardware acceleration. That should improve the UI responsiveness if they did that.
Chin doesn't look that great, but i'll live.
I'm just assuming its clocked at 528mhz since all the hero ROMS have been quite sluggish running at 384mhz.
This phone is a HUGE deal. It is the most feature packed Android phone to date. The laundry list of new and much needed features includes:
Multi-touch, standard
Adobe Flash support
5MP camera
Exchange Active Sync support
Integration with social networking a la Palm synergy
HTC Sense UI (Which, from running the SuperHero V2 ROM, I can say is the shiznit!!! I never knew Android could look and feel so sexy!)
Oh, and then there's the 3.5mm headphone jack(!)
This phone is the real deal.
just portrait
But that's where Spare Parts App will come into play (if that's the case)