HTC Hero – power at your fingertips!
The HTC Hero is a smartphone similar in design and function to an iPhone. The HTC Hero has won multiple awards, including the Stuff Awards 2009 Winner of Gadget of the Year, Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 2009 Phone of the Year, T3 Gadget Awards 2009 Gadget of the Year and T3 Gadget Awards 2009 Phone of the Year.
The HTC Hero allows users to personalise their mobile phone to a great degree. Widgets can be placed on the home screen, instead of having to access content through a number of menus, according to a variety of designs and sizes.
The HTC Hero is 4.41 inches long, 2.21 inches wide and 0.57 inches deep. It weighs 4.67 ounces (with battery). Its display screen is a 3.2 inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320/480 HVGA resolution. It handles up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link through its network connection. It comes with GPS, 5.0 megapixels colour camera with auto focus, MP3 and Windows Media players, a G-sensor and digital compass.
Aspects of the mobile phone that are praised in the HTC Hero reviews are the size and sturdy feel of its screen and the ease with which the on screen keypad can be used. Twitter, Facebook and Gmail contacts are automatically added to the address book. Criticism of the HTC Hero is that its operating speed is not as fast as could have been expected.
There are over 3,500 HTC Hero deals on offer from the major networks.
