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Looks Like The HTC Hero Will Be On NextG

5:16PM Nick Broughall | If, like certain people I know, you think the HTC is the second coming of Christ in phone form (he knows who I’m talking about), you might be happy to know that according to the Canadian HTC site, the Hero will be running on the 850/2100MHz spectrum for Telstra. More »
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HTC Hero Getting Android 2.0 Update

11:40AM Rosa Golijan | According to HTC’s Twitter feed, the tragically flawed HTC Hero is getting a sprucing up with an update to Android 2.0. Will the OS actually shine through this time, or is HTC’s Sense UI gonna continue running the show? [Twitter]
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Sprint Hero Review: Faster, Stronger, Uglier

2:01PM Matt Buchanan | Take the most daring Android phone yet, but make it faster, stronger and better (but blander). You have the Sprint take on the HTC Hero, which happens to be the best Android phone you can buy. More »
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HTC Hero Firmware Update Available Now, Fixes Sluggishness

1:20AM John Herrman | Would-be Hero buyers, look at the bright side: HTC will have ironed out most of the problems with the original. Like the slowness! Which you can now murder, to death, with an update. More »
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Android Donut Out: Full Multitouch, Universal Search, Automated Backups AND Better Performance

8:20AM Matt Buchanan | Google’s dropped new code for Android Donut and it sounds too good to be true. People at XDA Developers are reporting it has system-wide multitouch, universal search, text-to-speech, automated backups, a new camera app, and somehow, supposedly better performance. More »
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How To: Install The HTC Hero’s UI On Your Sad Old G1

7:00AM John Herrman | The tireless tinkerers over at XDA have assembled a definitive guide to loading the Hero’s custom-baked Android build onto G1s. It’s fairly involved and a little risky, but hardly unfamiliar territory to HTC fans. [XDA, GetYourDroidOn—Thanks, Patrick!] More »
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Half Of HTC’s Phones Will Be Android Next Year

3:42AM Matt Buchanan | Nearly a third of HTC’s phones this year run Android—more than I thought)—but by next year, half of HTC’s will be Android. Exciting, since it makes us dream of a next-gen Hero running something like a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, which would be magical. (See what I did there?) Not a great sign for Windows Mobile though, which used to be tied up pretty tightly with HTC as a brand. [Digitimes]
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HTC’s Chief Innovator: ‘The IPhone Is Slippery Like A Watermelon’

2:00AM Jason Chen | In an interview with T3, HTC’s Chief Innovation Officer Horace Luke justifies the impressive Teflon coating on the HTC Hero by saying that the iPhone is slippery as hell. The obvious solution, of course, is seedless watermelons. More »
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HTC Android Family Portraits: G1, MyTouch 3G And Hero

10:30AM Matt Buchanan | Ever wondered what it’d be like to get three generations of Android phones together—G1, myTouch 3G and Hero? If you think that’s kind of kinky, oh man, I hope you have a clean pair of pants lying around. More »