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HTC Hero Android Phone (Sprint)
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Technical Details
- Android-powered, 3G-enabled smartphone with 3.2-inch touchscreen display and easy access to social networking sites
- Sprint Mobile Broadband Network via EV-DO connectivity; Sprint TV and Amazon MP3 Store enabled; GPS turn-by-turn directions via Sprint Navigation
- 5-megapixel camera/camcorder; Wi-Fi networking; Bluetooth stereo music; microSD memory expansion; personal and corporate e-mail
- Up to 5 hours of talk time
- What's in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, 2 GB microSD memory card, USB cable, quick start guide, user manual
Product Details
Product Weight: 1.28 pounds
Shipping Weight: 0.01 pounds
Model: APA6277KT
Manufacturer: Sprint
Sales Rank: 73
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Customer Reviews
HTC Hero,
by David E Smith, 2010-07-24
Very happy with all aspects of the Hero. I have not encountered anything negative and would highly recommend to someone who desires an Android phone.
Amazing (really 4.5 stars),
by D. campbell, 2010-07-24
Lets go down the list: (Ratings 1-5)
Design- Very nice, Solid, Awesome screen-5
Software- Android 2.1 is amazing-5
Speed- Uhh..usually fast but laggy delay when pressing talk and call actually starting-3.5
Camera- Good, but 5mp could be better-3.5
Integration- No complains equal to webOS-5
Call Quality- Really good speakerphone should be louder-4
Sprint service- Hated sprint in 05, MASSIVE improvements now, LOVE sprint all day everyday-5
Battery- ehhh its okay, for a high powered smartphone i'll forgive-3.5
Show-off factor-LIKE 10!!! can hold its own against ANY phone
The Hero is Awesome!,
by D. Jefferson, 2010-07-16
I have had my HTC Sprint Hero since November 2009. It is a great phone and I love the Android OS. It's not quite as fast as the EVO or the Incredible (I love HTC phones :)) but the trackball is nice and its pretty responsive. Plus there are now 100,000 apps in the app Market, most of which are free. I have not had to pay for an app yet. If you are looking for the next hottest phone - get the HTC Evo, Droid Incredible or the Droid X (And i think the Droid 2 just got announced today), stay away from the iPhone with its reception issues and stay away from AT&T with their crappy Android phones. Get this if you want to be close to those other android phones but for less money. I almost went and got the Evo then i realized the Hero is still pretty sweet so it wasn't worth the money for me. And if you get bored of it then head on over to XDA-Developers, root your hero and start loading custom roms!
Slowest phone ever,
by Peter Sedivec, 2010-07-09
This phone has a LOT of potential, unfortunately the software is TERRIBLE and it is either extremely underpowered or just poorly designed software. When the phone is new it is responsive to your touch, has a little bit of a lag when moving around but that's normal.
Once you load apps on it and start attempting to use it towards it's potential the phone becomes crippled and in my opinion is the worst phone I've had it 10 yrs. I often wait 3-5 sec after clicking on pretty much any button for my input to be acknowledged. When dialing a call I will hit the person's name and it will actually not start the call for 35+ seconds. I've timed it with a stopwatch. It is so bad that in the beginning I thought it didn't take my input so I'd retouch the screen. Fortunately, this phone is so smart that it would recognize both inputs with the huge lag so it would connect my call with person A, and then when i was on the call with person A it would dial person A again at the same time so I'd be talking to them and we'd both hear the phone ringing. They'd ask me, why are you calling again when we're on the phone and I'd have to explain how ridiculously slow the phone is to respond and the problems. Only way to remedy this situtation is to hang up and retry.
The phone drops calls in areas where my old phone never dropped calls, so i'd rate reception as worse.
The battery life is awful. I use it fairly heavily, but after owning it for 6 months my phone battery is usually done after about 6hrs of being unplugged.
I upgraded to the new Android OS 2.1 but this makes things even worse. Seems to have some nice newer features but that just makes the phone hog the internet more and be less responsive.
Terrible lag when typing messages.
Why can't the software developers figure out that this is a SINGLE CORE processor and it CANNOT multi-task. If the user is actively using the phone, background tasks need to be halted so that the phone can be responsive. I'm tired of waiting 5 seconds between each click, and actually set the phone down when navigating through screens (e.g. like adding a new contact, seriously!!)
Its ok....,
by Gary, 2010-07-07
phone is not all that it was hyped up to be. battery is horrible. I find certain areas of the screen to be unresponsive sometimes. call quality is good. speaker for speaker phone is not that loud. will not hardly play videos. you have to reformat them in a low quality to get them to play. also the youtube feature is horrible. i find that the phone probably only plays about 25% of the videos.