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HTC Hero is our first phone to embody HTC Sense – an intuitive, seamless experience built upon three fundamental principles – make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected. With HTC Hero, personalization reaches a level never before possible. Rather than burying important content under layers of menus, the HTC Hero lets you put it at glance view, with a selection of widgets that can be placed right on the home screen. The widgets themselves can be personalized with a variety of designs and sizes that best match your personality. With Scenes, a new profile feature, HTC Hero becomes multiple phones in one. Create and switch between Scenes that reflect different moments in your life. Your Hero becomes a weekend phone that helps you relax with your choice of tunes, catch up with your favorite friends and capture some memories with HTC Footprints. And when you go on a trip, your phone becomes your personal guide and gives you instant access to local time, weather and maps. Today, staying in touch with the people in your life means managing a variety of communication channels and applications ranging from phone calls and emails to Facebook updates. HTC Hero makes staying close as simple as turning to your friend and saying hello. When you view people, you see the different ways to get in touch, you also see all your interactions like emails sent to your personal and work accounts. You can even check for social network updates and event notices as well as see the latest pictures your friends uploaded to popular photo sharing sites. Many of the most memorable moments in your life are experienced, not explained. Even basic functions like the dialer will pleasantly surprise you on the HTC Hero. You can find a person by dialing their phone number or simply by dialing the first few letters of their name. With HTC Hero, you can look at things through different perspectives. more info
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Purchase this phone in your surrounding area!
. I found this out at a coffee shop when the girl in front of me had a Hero in here hand. She told me that the smaller phone vendors carry the international versions of Hero and Galaxy at a around 550. No shipping or waiting. Walk in…Negotiate…go home and play with your phone LOL. So go to your local neighborhood phone center and ask. I’m not talking about the company branded stores either 
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Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I just found out that some shops actually sell this phone as well as the Samsung i7500. This means you should be able to try before you buy
Can’t go wrong with the hero
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
As the owner of a small IT consulting business I jumped at the chance to test out the HTC Hero for a few weeks. The capacitive touch screen is easily as responsive as the big competitors out there (Apple iPhone, BlackBerry Storm) and the Android operating system is very intuitive and easy to use. The lag which you may have seen reported has long since been fixed by an update from HTC, and this is easily one of the best smartphones I have ever reviewed. I do a lot of training for iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry and Symbian smartphone operating systems, so when I say HTC hit a home run with this phone it carries a little bit of weight. Unfortunately for Americans your only options are to purchase on Sprint (and I would heartily recommend this over a Palm Pre), or buy the unlocked international version which will work on the slower Edge speeds for AT&T and T-Mobile. Honestly, most people probably wouldn’t notice the difference between Edge and 3G for web browsing and checking your email. In any case, I loved testing this phone out and am hopeful we’ll see a GSM version for AT&T or T-Mobile in the future.
good phone overall
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Has anybody else read the reviews on the Hero? Granted, they called it the best android phone yet, but they also called it laggy, and it’s multimedia capabilities aren’t ranked so great either. It looks like i’ll be waiting for some real world reviews by some of you early adopters..Share your views at [...] would love to heard what you think.
3G does not work in US. Beware
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Played around with this phone for a bit now. Its a decent phone overall but yes it is little laggy. Be very carefully and aware of the fact that this handset does not work on the 3G networks. It is 3G compatible and a world phone, but GSM US carriers like T Mobile or ATT use a different frequency for data which is the GSM 1700 mhz band I think. Whatever the Freq, its not compatible for 3G data in US. Europe and Asia it will work fine on 3G but not in the US. Otherwise overall very well equiped, but not worth 600 dollars when the iPhone with 16GB unlocked can be got for about 400-500 and 32 GB for 500-600 unlocked.
Many apps are available for the phone, great interface, very user friendly, shoots good pics and decent video, can use mp3s as ringtones which is fantastic. Visual voicemail if supported by carrier, g sensors, GPS is accurate, search engine features are great too. Finds anything in the neighborhood, coffee shops, hotels, restaurants etc.
All in all decent phone but not at [...]
Be careful, Scam
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This company along with Amazon make it impossable to cancel an order after they tell you they will not ship for weeks and after they sell you something they don’t have. Buyer beware. This is the 2nd time in a month Amazon has tried to sell something they don’t have. What a scam