HTC Hero (Sprint) Smartphone REVIEWS

Released on: 10/11/2009

The HTC Hero will be offered for a reasonable $179.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. Be aware, however, that the smartphone requires a plan with unlimited data.

The good: The HTC Hero offers a highly customizable user interface thanks to HTC Sense. It also improves on past Android devices with Outlook e-mail, calendar, and contacts synchronization, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a 5-megapixel camera. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and 3G support are all onboard.

The bad: The smartphone can occasionally be sluggish. Flash content didn't always work from the Web browser. Apps must still be downloaded to the phone's internal memory. Media syncing software would nice, as would be a file manager.

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[JEHIAHL]

This phone seems pretty sweet. I should be getting one in about a week!

[ElSerg3000]

so you have like the 5th hero that has "with google" written on the back, which means a google expirience phone. Now i know the gsm version is not a google expirience phone, so did sprint's version make the change? It would be great if they did because it would mean OTA updates and android 1.6 when it comes out, which i've heard brings saving apps to the sd card.