HTC Hero coming exclusively to Sprint
It’s official Sprint will be the exclusive US carrier for the hot device that is the HTC Hero. Featuring a new svelte chinless design and HTC’s in house built “Sense Experience” UI. This marks the first non-T-Mobile Android headset to reach this part of the shore. Sprint is sure hitting it out of the ballpark, first the exclusive carrier to the Palm pre and now they’ve got the hottest Android phone. Expect this to drop on October 11th at $179.99 with a 2 year contract. Presser is here, Sprint sign up is here and the specs (with pictures to the Jay Leno-chin version) is here.
In case you missed it, here is a drill down of what you can expect:
- Built in GPS with digital compass
- Exchange Active sync support
- 3.2″ 320 x 480 capacitive touchscreen
- Android
- ROM: 512 MB
- RAM: 288 MB
- Qualcomm MSM7200A, 528 MHz CPU
Just also keep in mind, since HTC heavily modified this device, this won’t come stock with any of those Google Apps you’ll see in full Google Experience phones, such as the G1 (HTC Dream) or the myTouch (HTC Magic), but be sure that someone like Cyanogen or someone from XDA will be able to hack it in there somehow.
--written by Peter To--
