The Connected Circuit » htc-hero http://www.theconnectedcircuit.com/blog Connecting To My Online Life Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:59:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 HTC Hero coming exclusively to Sprint http://www.theconnectedcircuit.com/blog/2009/09/04/htc-hero-coming-exclusively-to-sprint/ http://www.theconnectedcircuit.com/blog/2009/09/04/htc-hero-coming-exclusively-to-sprint/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:18:37 +0000 Peter To http://www.theconnectedcircuit.com/blog/?p=458 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.

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Hardware-wise, the specs of the device are not mind blowing, but they are not unspectacular either. It has a teflon coated back, a 3.5mm jack, 3.2″ HVGA (480x320) capacitive touchscreen, a Qualcomm® MSM7200A 528 MHz CPU processor, 288 MB of RAM, 5 megapixal autofocus cam, GPS, quad band GSM phone (900/2100 MHz for HSPA), and a digital compass, but lacks a physical keyboard.

Reminiscint of Touch FLO3D for Windows Mobile devices, Sense UI is the new skin created by HTC. Both very slick and stylish, the new UI has the ability to add widgets, HTC’s own or a third party, moves relatively seamless and has highly customizable home screens. HTC also went through the trouble of creating their own virtual keyboard that seems to rival that of the iPhone’s and has haptic feedback. The biggest news is that HTC with the help of Adobe has built a Flash player into the browser and is capable of playing videos straigt from Youtube, though it isn’t 100% yet. Seemless is hard to the describe how Sense UI actually works, so check out the embedded videos below.

Read more here, here, here, here, and here.

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