HTC Hero review: Born to rise

06 August 2009
In the beginning there was G1 as the frontline trooper, the expendable GI. Elsewhere, in the HTC discourse, it was hope and vision. Well, it seems the dreamer’s Dream is coming true and someone there is really proud with what...

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  • asd
  • vGE
  • 06 Aug 2013

no game support

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    • a,javahry
    • HF2
    • 25 Jun 2012

    support update

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      • AnonD-13826
      • Mf5
      • 14 Jul 2011

      i use hero but ihave 2 problem someone can help me please????
      1- my sound volume phone have more noisy when i adding his volume higher in media playing and others
      2- i want arabic keyboard (arabic language pack)which ican write and read in arabic or persian.

      thanx for all.....someone helpme please

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        • sherpa
        • t@J
        • 28 May 2011

        i'm getting very pleasure to use this HTC hero phone but i lost many applications when unlocking .i can't get to read PDF viewr as well.So now i want to upload the applications as the begining.Any solution????????

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          • Poppie
          • mXv
          • 17 Aug 2010

          MJ, 14 Aug 2009Guys (and Girls if any) Thinking of gettign this phone..... moreWell, I'd have a look at some youtube vids of the different colours, 'cause then you can get a better idea. I'd say the white is the best colour, but then again, I am female :)

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            • Anonymous
            • Snu
            • 01 Feb 2010

            how to bluetooth picture or music for hero?

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              • freakyprat
              • P$u
              • 08 Jan 2010

              Well Well Well
              I had someone asking me how to transfer the media on the phoen to the memory card or the SD card on the phone.
              Well the OS is designed in such a way that the media is automatically stored on the SD card if i am wrong do correct me ppl..

              Regards,
              Freaky

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                • Dac
                • Tm4
                • 02 Dec 2009

                Rip, 06 Aug 2009I loved the Sense UI's look since the beginning; however, a... moreyeah, that's what I thought. Galaxy is smaller, better cam with flash, OLED screen... but Galaxy won't get Android 2.x because it lacks enough RAM. so it's already outdated

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                  • KoZinE
                  • tjF
                  • 03 Nov 2009

                  I think there is an error with the 'Key Features' regarding the review of the HTC Hero on the first page.

                  The processor is suppose to be "Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor" instead of "Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz CPU" ? The specs page for HTC's website and GSMarena's website shows 7200A.

                  http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/specification.html
                  http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_hero-2861.php

                  There are some differences between 7200A and 7201A.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • NaK
                    • 20 Oct 2009

                    Gert Aage, 15 Sep 2009Awesome phone, had it for a month now, and the only thing t... moreyou are so right... The Hero with the new firmware update is a beast... it beats my iphone3g by miles.... this phone is just amazing and it grows more on me with each passing day....

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                      • zion
                      • tV3
                      • 15 Oct 2009

                      Is hero's screen size the exact same as that of magic's??

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                        • Gert Aage
                        • 35e
                        • 15 Sep 2009

                        Awesome phone, had it for a month now, and the only thing that it has short of my old N82, is the cameracapabilities, even though it´s 5MP as the Nokia, there is a huge difference.
                        Yesterday I had the new ROM for Denmark installed, and now it´s even in my own language.
                        But the biggest thing is the speed, it had a little lag every now and then before, especially when I forgot to close apps. But with the new ROM the speed is absolutely stunning, even with multiple apps running. I haven´t had the pleasure of the new Iphone 3gs, but the Hero with the new Rom beats 3G by far.
                        And the HTC UI beats Apple in my opinion at any time.
                        So apart from the camera, I´m absolutely stunned over the Hero with the new ROM. It even, clearly seems to outcool the Apple 3gs with people who doesn´t have a clue about touch-phones, I think the much spoken of "Iphone-killer" is here ;-)

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                          • pandu
                          • vGd
                          • 13 Sep 2009

                          htc should stop producing this phone

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                            • swapandeep mitra
                            • vGg
                            • 12 Sep 2009

                            worst phone


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                              • Anonymous
                              • 12 Sep 2009

                              jo_ii, 09 Sep 2009Awesome review! I believe it pretty much covered everything... morelol, but hero rocks more

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                                • jo_ii
                                • Ydg
                                • 09 Sep 2009

                                Awesome review! I believe it pretty much covered everything I would've wanted to know from buying it then reselling it haha 3G S is still my #1 haha

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • QWY
                                  • 26 Aug 2009

                                  I just talked to a Sprint rep and he was saying how they might get the HTC Hero...has anyone else heard who might be supporting this. I was assuming that t-mobile will carry it.

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                                    • androbust
                                    • pWL
                                    • 25 Aug 2009

                                    Martin Perrett, 25 Aug 2009I have some problems related to wifi connections. With beeb... moreI guess my streaming problem is not related to wifi because also other connections do it (3g, edge, gprs). Grps should be too slow for audio stream but with edge or 3g connection with Nokia E90 works fine.

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                                      • Martin Perrett
                                      • 3aK
                                      • 25 Aug 2009

                                      androbust, 25 Aug 2009Yes, 1 week survived with the Hero! The "new" things are co... moreI have some problems related to wifi connections. With beebplayer all was working well but now it will not stream over wifi. Works 3G . Other things are not working as I thought they did as well, all over wifi. Tried different wifi points. Last.FM works well now but was playing up. Have done a factory defaults reset but that does not completely clear things out. Like the phone though and Google skymap is very useful. 3G seems to always work it's just the data useage problem!

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                                        • androbust
                                        • pWL
                                        • 25 Aug 2009

                                        Yes, 1 week survived with the Hero! The "new" things are cool (touchUI, widgets, visuality,...) but I am disappointed with the basic things that are not working well and some stupid (but good looking) ui tricks that make using misery! I am missing my good old Nokia communicator... Hope I get used to this and things get fixed with new firmwares.

                                        Does the streaming (flash?) player work well? I have problems because it keeps stucking event with wlan connection. It takes 20 minutes to play 10 minutes streaming audio because half of the time Hero is buffering... Anyone experienced the same?