Sprint to give devs free HTC Hero and service

22 September 2009 by Shane McGlaun

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Sprint has announced that at the developer’s conference it is holding on October 26 it will be giving away free HTC Hero handsets and a month of free service. The free phone and service will be given to the first 400 developers who attend the HTC Coding Lab.

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To get the free handsets developers need to have a laptop with the Android development environment 1.5 installed and running for the hands-on session. Sprint also added a number of support features for Android developers to its dev support website.

The new features include implementation information for Android handsets, access to developer tools and Sprint network services. These services include location-based, messaging, and geofence services.

Join the Discussion (7 comments)

DaYuMu6ft7

09-22-2009 04:19 PM

Cool! - Lucky them, I Guess!

:-/
reddv1

09-22-2009 08:58 PM

but it costs $350 just attend the conference!
enriques04

09-22-2009 10:01 PM

Has anyone noticed that the HTC hero that they have on the sprint website the not the same phone as the one being displayed on here? take a look:

http://www.sprintenterprise.com/hero...e_C_Sprint_HTC

does that mean its not going to have the same hardware?????

stopcrazypp

09-22-2009 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enriques04

Has anyone noticed that the HTC hero that they have on the sprint website the not the same phone as the one being displayed on here? take a look:

http://www.sprintenterprise.com/hero...e_C_Sprint_HTC

does that mean its not going to have the same hardware?????

The Sprint Hero is slightly different than then original Hero (in the pictures for this article): it's missing the chin. Android community is just too lazy to update their pictures.

Chotpy

09-23-2009 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stopcrazypp

The Sprint Hero is slightly different than then original Hero (in the pictures for this article): it's missing the chin. Android community is just too lazy to update their pictures.

wow gigantic difference!!!! people need to see that O_O;;;;

sbig79

09-23-2009 09:43 AM

The funny thing is that the Sprint Hero is "with google" branded phone..... interesting ....does this mean that MT3G will have sense UI in the future as well..... just wishing for a touch of magic out loud....
androidmaddy

09-23-2009 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by reddv1

but it costs $350 just attend the conference!

$350 for the phone with 1 month of service is a great deal. Considering 1 month of service is worth $70, You're getting the phone for $280 without signing your life away.

Contract free price of this phone is definitely much more than that.