The Hero Has Come

The HTC Hero Android phone was officially announced At a press event in London on Wednesday as the latest Google Android device. 

The HTC Hero will be available in Europe starting in July and in Asia later this summer, while a “distinct” North American version will ship later in 2009. However, pricing was not announced at this time.

 

 

According to the CNET, The new Sense UI allows users to customize the device to their needs and give them more access to the information they want at a glance through widgets, customized profiles, and consolidated views of all communication with a contact, whether it be e-mail, text or multimedia message, Facebook status updates, or photos. In addition, HTC said that all of its future devices will use Sense UI.

 

Below is the Hero’s spec I got from Boy Genius Report website:

 

Android with HTC Sense

112mm x 56.2mm x 14.35mm, 135g

Qualcomm MSM7200A 528MHz processor

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, dual-band 7.2Mbps HSPA/WCDMA

512 ROM / 288 RAM

3.2″ HVGA capacitive touchscreen

5.0 megapixel camera with auto-focus

Gravity sensor

Digital compass

WiFi 802.11b/g

GPS

Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR + A2DP

3.5mm headphone jack

microSD

1350 mAh battery

420 minutes talktime / 750 hours standby (WCDMA)