HTC Hero G3 A6262 Black Unlocked GSM Smartphone Google Android Touchscreen Mobile Cell Phone, GPS, Wifi, 5 Megapixel Camera, Compass, MicroSD | 
| Brand: HTC
Category: Wireless
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 41757
Color: Brown
Media: Wireless Phone Accessory
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.5 x 2.4
TFT capacitive touchscreen, 65K colors
Size: 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inchesSense UI
Multi-touch input method
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Trackball
Alert Types: Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone
3.5 mm audio jack
Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records: Practically unlimited
Internal Memory: 288 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Card Slot: microSD (TransFlash)
GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2.0 Mbps
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth: v2.0 with A2DP
USB: miniUSB
Camera * Primary: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus * Features: Touch focus (via software update) * Video: CIF@15fps
Standard Battery, Li-Ion 1350 mAh
Stand-by: Up to 440 h (2G) / Up to 750 h (3G)
Talk Time: Up to 8 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)
Unlocked Cell Phone - Works on any GSM Network in the World - Just insert your sim card
MPN: 4710937332971
Model: 99HHM085-00
EAN: 4710937332971
ASIN: B002FHD5V2
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| Features:
| • | OS Android OS, v1.5 (Cupcake), CPU Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor | | • | Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Instant Messaging, Browser, HTML | | • | Games, GPS with A-GPS support, Java Via third party application, Digital compass | | • | Dedicated search key, Scenes quick profile switcher, MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 player, MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 player, Voice memo | | • | 3G EURO Standard, Quad Band 850/900/1800/1900 |
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Product Description
With the HTC Hero, personalisation lets you create a phone that is just right for you. Sporting a 3.2 inch touchscreen display, the Hero runs on the latest version of the Android operating system (known as Cupcake) which lets you download apps from the Android Market and features full compatibility with Google services such as Google Maps and Gmail. The Hero is the first phone to embody HTC Sense - an intuitive seamless experience that puts multiple channels such as Email and Facebook in your contacts and will also show you the latest photos your friends have uploaded. Also included is a 5.0 Megapixel camera with Autofocus, HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, built in GPS and Bluetooth.
HTC Hero continues HTCs leadership in cutting-edge design that focuses on introducing a variety of distinct devices to represent your own individuality. Boasting bevelled edges and an angled bottom, the HTC Hero is contoured to fit comfortably in your hand and against your face while youre on a call. The HTC Hero is built to last beginning with an anti-fingerprint screen coating for improved smudge resistance and a longer lasting, clearer display.
With its 3.2-inch HVGA display, the HTC Hero is optimized for Web, multimedia and other content while maintaining a small size and weight that fits comfortably in your hand. It also boasts a broad variety of hardware features including a GPS, digital compass, gravity-sensor, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, a 5 mega-pixel autofocus camera and expandable MicroSD memory. HTC Hero also includes a dedicated Search button that goes beyond basic search, providing you with a more natural, contextual search experience that enables you to search through Twitter, locate people in your contact list, find emails in your inbox or search in any other area in Hero.
Includes:
Hero GSM Unlocked Quad-band Phone
Li-ion Battery
USB Data Cable
Stereo Handsfree Headset
User Manual
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Powerful and useful, but also slow, especially after Android 2.1 update March 11, 2010
Thomas Jhou (Baltimore, MD)
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
This phone seems to combine a lot of promise with above average frustration. One the one hand, this "smartphone" is much more useful than my previous "dumb" phone. The ability to synchronize my Google contacts, e-mail, and calendar automatically is a lifesaver, and is very helpful when traveling. This phone also boasts impressive specifications, including GPS, WiFi, bluetooth, internal compass, ambient light sensor, and autofocus-capable camera/video. When I first got it, it ran Android 1.5, an old version which had some annoying problems, such as a horribly frustrating YouTube app. Also, the default settings ensured lousy battery life. I have since updated the phone to the latest Android 2.1, which made some things better (e.g. the YouTube app works well now) but other things worse. Most glaringly, the phone is now noticeably slower to do everything. It was never very zippy to begin with, but us now downright irritating, and I am constantly killing background tasks just to keep the slowness at a manageable level.
Using this phone reminds me of my experience many years ago when Windows 95 first came out. Then, as now, that was the product to compete with Apple, but it had a lot of rough edges, crashed constantly, and had a less intuitive user interface.
Here are my detailed observations, starting first with the good things:
1. If you use gmail and Google calendar, Android will synchronize your life. If you add contacts on your phone, they show up on your gmail account within a few seconds, and vice versa. If you add calender items online, they show up on the phone, and vice versa. It just works. All phones should be this easy.
2. The GPS is great, much better than my older HTC phone. It finds satellites quickly, even indoors when I'm not particularly close to a window. If it doesn't find satellites, the phone will locate itself using cell phone towers.
3. HTC's "Sense" interface is pretty nice.
4. There is an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts screen brightness to match the environment, like the iphone. It works well most of the time.
5. Google's apps store, while still lagging behind the iPhone, is catching up fast. There are a lot of good ones, ranging from useful things like WeatherBug, to nerd toys like the barcode reader and sky constellation viewer for astronomy nerds. You can read user comments before you install any app, which helps weed out the flakier ones.
OK, now for the frustrating parts.
1. The processor is a tad slow. Under Android 1.5, simple things like typing sometimes had noticeable delays. After updating to the latest version 2.1, the phone has gotten slower still. The lag is particularly annoying if I am traveling, or running through airports, etc, which is ironic since the whole point of getting a smartphone was to help keep me organized when traveling away from home. To make the situation tolerable, I installed a Task Killer, without which I would probably have thrown the phone at a wall by now. I find it particularly helpful to kill the camera application, which slows the phone a lot if running in the background. Sometimes rebooting the phone helps too, but it takes almost two full minutes to power down and back up, again not a fun thing to do while trying to make one's connecting flights.
2. Typing. This phone has one of the increasingly common "capacitive" touchscreens (like the iphone). If you're already used to this, you know what you're in for. But if you have never used this kind of screen before, get ready for several days of fat fingers. This phone's screen responds only to the fleshy pad of the finger, not a stylus or fingernail. Your fingers will feel like giant marshmallows as you try to type on the tiny on-screen keyboard. On my old phone, I could use my fingernail or a stylus to touch a precise spot on the screen, but that is no longer an option.
3. With Android 1.5, the YouTube app was horribly buggy, and barely worked. Fortunately, under Android 2.1 it is vastly improved.
4. Settings are often hard to find, and buried deep within menus. For example, to turn off dialpad tones, you have to exit out of the phone application, then go to "Settings", then "sound and display", then scroll to "dialer keypad tone". It took me days to figure this out, and the setting really ought to be placed in the phone app itself.
5. Battery life is middling when using default factory settings. It seems to get better if you turn off "always-on" in the wireless settings, but then email gets much slower because the phone no longer downloads new mail in the background. These things aren't obvious - you have to figure them out by reading forums and seeing what other people have tried.
6. Slightly arrogant user community. Getting help with this phone reminds me of the IT departments at my job. While setting up my phone, one comment I got from another Android user went along the lines of ... "if you don't want to flash your own custom roms, then get an iphone". OK, I don't want to have to "flash a custom rom" just to make my phone do what it was supposed to do from the beginning. Why should I have to become a tech support expert when Google/HTC have highly paid engineers whose job it is to solve these problems?
7. Google Chrome automatically syncs bookmarks across your PCs, but this does not extend to the Android browser. Of course, no other phone does this either, but it seems like a strange omission. I have no doubt Google's engineers are working on this, but it's not here yet.
In summary, Android feels like the early days when PCs became popular. There is a lot of potential, but I'm still waiting for bugs and quirks to get smoothed out, even in Android 2.1. If you are still getting this phone, be aware that you will have spend some time fiddling and tweaking, and reading in forums to find out how other users worked around various quirks. Once you do all that, phone becomes very useful, albeit frustratingly slow to operate, especially after updating the Android 2.1.
 Quality issues with HTC February 4, 2010
D. Schreiber (Sharon, MA USA)
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
Android is excellent. However the touch screen on the HTC Hero broke in 6 months of purchase. Also had a HTC Touch. The touch screen on that broke after 2 years.
 hero the world should be this easy December 23, 2009
D. Christopher (staten island ny usa)
3 out of 29 found this review helpful
this phoe out class the iphoe in my view its the best smart phone iv'e had nokia has nothing to class with it and the sence ui is so intuitive i dont know how i lived before it
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