The HTC Hero has a 3.2 inch TFT capacitive touch screen with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels and the ability to display 65k colors. The display on this phone is a Gorilla glass display. The phone has multi-touch feature to make it easy to type on the onscreen keyboard. The accelerometer makes it possible to rotate the display automatically when the phone is tilted. The HTC Hero also has a trackball to make navigation easy.

The HTC Hero has a 3.5mm audio output jack to make it possible to listen to your favourite music. And the phone has 288 MB of RAM and 512 MB of ROM. You can extend the memory of the phone using a microSD card, as the HTC Hero has a microSD card slot in it.

The HTC Hero remains pretty much a standard in the connectivity department. It has GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA at 2.0 Mbps, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g), Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, and a miniUSB 2.0 port for PC connectivity and charging.

The HTC Hero has a 5MP autofocus camera which takes pictures at a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. Other features of the camera include geo-tagging and touch focus. The camera can also record video. The HTC Hero has no front-facing or secondary camera for video calling or taking self-portraits. This can be a major let down for a huge amount of the user base.

The HTC Hero runs on a 528 MHz ARM 11 processor and has a dedicated Adreno 130 GPU. This setup is housed on a Qualcomm MSM7200A chipset. The phone runs Android 1.5, or Cupcake as the OS. The HTC Hero also has GPS and has support for A-GPS.

To power up all this, the HTC Hero has a standard 1350 mAh Li-ion battery which gives a standby time of up to 440 hours in 2G mode and up to 750 hours in 3G mode. The battery gives a talk time of up to 8 hours in 2G mode and up to 7 hours in 3G mode."; $review2 = "The HTC Hero was really a hero as gadget lovers seemed to love the phone ever since the leaked images of the phone were made available. Once the phone was introduced in the market, everyone loved for what it was. Hero was one exclusive android phone that was very much ahead of the android phones that were present in the market. Some people believed that HTC Hero is the first step of a very effective android phone that can compete with the iPhone by keeping the open source platform intact.

HTC has perfected its hardware design and HTC Hero is a fine product that was a result of evolution with respect to HTC designing. Below the large screen, there are physical buttons and a trackball, very common in android mobile phones. The phone is ergonomically designed with a slightly raised bottom part that many people call as chin. Hero feels very solid and sturdy when you hold the phone.

The 3.2\" LCD touch screen is much better than the predecessors with smudge resistance. However, you have to wipe the screen on a timely basis, but the screen repels oil and dirt just like iPhone. HTC has really tried hard to make HTC Hero an exceptionally good android phone. In order to give the users the best experience like Windows mobile phones, HTC used Sense UI with the Hero. This UI was first introduced in HTC Hero and now, almost all android phones contain this Sense UI experience.

The onscreen keyboard of HTC Hero is good, but it is not just good enough to enjoy typing using the virtual keyboard completely. Apart from standard apps and widgets, HTC has done its magic and it worked well with Hero. Unlike other smart phones, HTC Hero actually supports flash. The 5 megapixel camera works exceptionally well, but the videos are not as good as images. With an array of connectivity options, browsing the web shouldn't be a problem with HTC Hero. HTC should find itself upgrading the hardware as andiron operating system became competent enough to offer much more than HTC Hero can handle. "; include 'phone.php'; ?>