HTC Hero

I was really surprised to see that HTC is coming out with weird names like 'Magic', 'Touch' and now 'Hero'. I supposed 'Hero' is a better name compared to the many. Having said that, it is important to inform you all about the new touchscreen which is going to run on the Andriod 1.5 OS.

I have not much of an experience into playing with an Andriod PDA/phone except for HTC's 'Magic' on Vodafone UK. I find that the 'Magic' is really magical. It serve the purpose of the many. In fact, I have to say that the OS is quite competitive and it could, in time, be as good as the current Symbian OS!

No doubt that WinMo dominated the touchscreen devices since its inception but not anymore. We have the Mac OS X OS running on the Iphone; Symbian OS S60 running on many of the Nokia mobile devices and now, the Andriod OS. Not longer after this we might be seeing Andriod on an ARM based Netbook! This will be a first, don't you think so?

Coming back to HTC's Hero, it sports a quadband GSM with dualband UTMS. The screen size is 320x480, supporting 65k colours on a 3.2inch wide platform. It has many of the latest technologies including Bluetooth, wi-fi (802.11b/g) and it has a 5MP autofocus digital camera with a video camera in front. It is a far cry from the current Iphone 3GS where it does not have a front camera!!! What a shame Apple!!!

One thing good about the HTC Hero is that the screen is capacitative so it is similar to the Apple's Iphone. It has an accelerometer fitted and capable of downloading speed of up to 7.2Mbps (HSDPA). It has a digital compass, like the Iphone 3GS but the cpu is merely a 528mhz Qualcomm MSM7200A, unlike the ARM Cortex A8 on the Iphone 3GS which is faster at 600mhz.

I will be very surprised if the HTC Hero does not receive a good welcome from customers as it is quite slim, although not as slim as the Arena or Tocco. It is still a good PDA/phone. The HTC Hero supports external memory card for up to 16GB (for now) and it has 288MB RAM with 512MB ROM. It is pretty impressive!!! We'll see about it then. Right now, I am going to enjoy my Iphone 3G...