HTC has launched the new HTC Hero smartphone, based on Google’s Android operating system in the UK market. The HTC Hero is HTC’s third handset to be powered by the android operating system after HTC Dream and HTC Magic. It’s a touchscreen phone that will come with a newly designed user interface.
The phone has a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, a 3.2-inch display multitouch 320×480 screen, GPS, digital compass, a 3.5-mm headset jack, MicroSD memory card slot, gravity sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. It runs on a 528-MHz Qualcomm MSM7200A processor. There’s no physical keyboard, but it has HTC’s customized touch keyboard. The HTC Hero also features an anti-fingerprint coating on the screen for smudge resistance and a Teflon coating on the exterior.
HTC Hero is also the first Android OS based phone that brings Adobe Flash support for web browsing and enjoying Flash-based multimedia content. By bringing Flash platform to Android, HTC Hero smartly leapfrogs Apple’s iPhone 3GS which is yet to get Flash support. The new HTC interface for Android features gesture control, widgets support and single view integration of different apps.
The HTC Hero phone will be available in 7 different colors including black, white, yellow, pink, gold, red and turquoise, and will include the much anticipated custom HTC Android user interface ‘Rosie’.
The HTC Hero will be available in Europe in July and in Asia later in the summer and North American version will arrive in late 2009. No word on pricing yet for the phone.
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