HTC Hero hands-on: Photos

By Flora Graham on 29 June 2009

We don't need another hero ... unless it's a new phone from HTC. Dubbed the Hero, it's HTC's third handset to sport the Google Android operating system.

(Credit: CNET UK)

HTC has obliged with the Hero, its third handset to sport the Google Android operating system, which makes the score HTC: 3, everyone else: 0.

The Hero also debuts Sense, HTC's new user interface for Android, meaning that this is the first phone that doesn't fall into the Google phone category, since it's doing its own thing with a bunch of custom UI tweaks.

We liked what HTC did with its TouchFLO user interface, which makes a valiant attempt to cover the horribly disfigured Windows Mobile 6.1 on phones such as the Touch Diamond2. And we loved the HTC Magic, HTC's second Android phone, so much that we gave an Editors' Choice award and made idiots of ourselves over it.

So we've got high hopes that this can be our hero, baby, it can kiss away our pain. Especially our battery pain, since the Magic needs charging more than Green Lantern's ring. HTC promises that the Hero will offer 420 minutes of talk time on 3G, compared to 400 for the Magic and 350 for the G1. Standby is rated at 750 hours, compared to 660 for the Magic and 402 for the G1.

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Comments (3)

  • c commented on 11/10/2009 06:02 Report abuse

    does this phone have a keypad too

  • Morten commented on 10/08/2009 06:42 Report abuse

    "HTC says that the screen also has a grease-fighting coating, although we had no trouble getting a few fingerprints on there when we tried." they only said that you could clean it way easier then other phones (one swip across your shirt and it should be finger free).

  • FIRST commented on 04/07/2009 23:10 Report abuse

    HOPE THIS PHONE LIVE UP TO YOUR DESCRIPTIONS, WHICH SOUNDED A LOT LIKE PAID AD BY HTC.

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