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There’s no underestimating the appeal of the HTC Hero; since we shot our unboxing video and
preliminary hands-on at the end of last week it’s been watched more than 300,000 times. The third
Android device to reach the market, the Hero promises not only an updated camera and design, but
HTC’s latest work in user-interface, HTC Sense. Can the Hero live up to the hype? Check out our full
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Up front, there’s a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen running at 320 x 480 HVGA resolution, sitting above
the usual six Android buttons: call, home, menu, call-end, search and back. The trackball from the
Dream and Magic is also present, and it lights up when you receive an SMS or phone call. Above the
display is the long, narrow speaker-grill, flanked on the left by an ambient light sensor and on the right
by a two-color LED that flashes green to let you know a message has come in, and red when
charging. The whole handset is covered in Teflon, which HTC say will better resist scratches, fading
and staining; its matte finish is a tactile and aesthetically welcome departure from glossy devices.
Prise off the back cover – something which takes a little bravery to do, as it’s a tight fit – and there’s a
microSD card slot that can be accessed without removing the battery, together with the SIM slot and
1,350mAh Li-Ion power pack. The whole thing weighs 135g.
On the inside, things are far more similar to HTC’s existing Android range. The Hero has the same
528MHz Qualcomm processor, paired with 512MB ROM and 288MB RAM, as its siblings, together with
900/2100MHz HSPA/WCDMA supporting up to 7.2Mbps downlink and 2Mbps uplink speeds (network
depending). There’s also 850/900/1800/1900MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE; we’re yet to hear any
announcement regarding a US-spec version of the Hero. Other connectivity includes WiFi b/g,
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR with A2DP support, and of course USB 2.0, plus there’s A-GPS, a digital compass
and accelerometer.
Of course, what makes the Hero particularly special is the work HTC have done on its user-interface,

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as it has been for the past twelve months or so, that’s no small lineage. Sense aims to take the basic
Android OS and make it not only more visually appealing but functionally more immediate, bringing
commonly-used services and features to the fore and, in no small way, making the fledgling Google
platform more engaging “out of the box”.
HTC’s first, and perhaps most obvious way of doing that is through widgets. Previous Android devices
have had a few widget options – search, picture frame, music, etc – and those are still present, but
HTC introduce fourteen of their own, along with five “toggle” controls for connectivity options. These
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app, too, so while they’re functional in their own right
– you don’t have to leave the homescreen to browse
through your Twitter message stream, for instance –
you’re also one touch away from a more
comprehensive experience. To stay with Twitter, the
client – called Peep – shows the full message list and
allows you to post a new tweet from the homescreen,
but tapping into the app-proper brings up separate
panes in which you can view your “@” replies, direct
messages and favorites. It’s also linked into your
location, so you can send geographic updates letting
people know whereabouts you are, and there are
options for update frequency (number of tweets to
download, up to 250; frequency of updates, from daily
through every 5mins and manual) and even a choice
of photo host, picture quality and URL-shortening
service.
Peep works well, spawning a little bird icon into the
notification bar when there are fresh messages, just
as you would get with a new email. New messages
have an easy photo upload button, which offers the
choice of an existing picture from the gallery or to
take a new shot with the camera then and there, and you can also tap the location button to tweet
your geographical position as a link to a map, custom text or plain latitude/longitude. Our one gripe is
the seeming absence of any way to quickly paste in Twitter contact names, beyond physically typing
them out; an “insert follower username” option would make this much easier. Still, a long-hold on any
tweet will bring up a menu for reply, send direct message, retweet, add to favorites or show profile.
A much-welcomed addition to an Android device is Microsoft Exchange support, and HTC have
provided a new Mail app on the Hero to cater for it. As you might

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expect, it uses ActiveSync to wirelessly synchronize, and offer push-email from hosted Exchange
accounts. The Mail app also supports POP, APOP and IMAP, and can have multiple simultaneous
accounts established; download frequency can be set from 5 minutes through to daily, plus manual,
and you can choose how many days of messages you want on your Hero and the maximum size of
each message (there’s an option to download the rest in each curtailed email). Once set up, different
accounts can be switched between via a drop-down menu at the top, while a sliding selection marker
at the bottom of the screen takes you between three main views. The first lists all emails by date and
individually; the second threads together email conversations; the third lists only emails with
attachments.
The most obvious comparison to be made is with Android’s native GMail app, also present on the
Hero. While the screen size devoted to messages in each app is different, both show at most seven
email headers at any one time; GMail obviously conversation-threads as standard, and tags one
message after another, while HTC Mail shows one email at a time with up/down buttons to flip between
messages in a thread. It’s arguable as to which system works better; those comfortable skipping down
long conversations via touchscreen swipes will most likely prefer the GMail app, while the HTC offering
does make it easier to get to the start of the next message. Happily, since GMail offers IMAP support
for their accounts, you can pick between the two clients depending on your UI preference; remember,
though, that Mail won’t let you search the GMail server like the native app will.
Of course, the major difference is that Android’s GMail app has no homescreen widget, only a shortcut,
whereas HTC Mail does. You can choose to devote a whole homescreen pane (there’s no cut-down
mini-widget, though there is a simple shortcut button) to Mail, and from there flip through the stack of
emails, bin them, write a new message or go directly to the inbox. There’s no HTML support in the
widget, only plain text, but it’s certainly enough to see multiple lines of an email and choose whether
it’s worth heading into the app proper to do anything about it.
The new SMS app works in a similar fashion, grouping messages by sender and presenting them in a
conversation with icons – if present – from the contacts app. HTC provide a number of quick-text
inserts (such as “Where are you?” and “I’m running late”) together with the ability to easily attach
pictures, video, audio, location data, a vCard contact file, vCalendar appointment, or to create a new
attachment. This latter option takes you to the camera, camcorder, audio-recorder or slideshow apps,
allowing you to film a clip, etc, then attach it straight to an MMS. As for the accompanying widget, this
uses a Rolodex-style presentation to flip through the most recent messages from a contact on the
homescreen, together with a shortcut to write a new message.

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Moving to the Phone app, this can be accessed via the listing in the main programs menu or by
pressing the shortcut button at the base of the homescreen. It opens by default with your recent calls
list overlaid with a number pad; tapping the buttons either enters the number or uses T9 to search
through your contacts for a matching name. Alternatively, minimizing the number pad shows the
contacts list itself; the Menu button gives shortcuts to the contacts app proper, your full call history,
favorites and speed-dials, as well as settings. Call quality is fair, with the Hero relatively tenacious
with a signal and no problems for either party with volume or noise. The side volume keys adjust
earpiece volume when in a call or ringer volume (down to vibrate and silent) otherwise; during calls the
number pad is a button-press away, while the Menu button brings up options for speakerphone,
putting the caller on hold, adding another party, launching the contacts app and muting the
microphone.
HTC are proud of the work they’ve done with Sense when it comes to contacts, on the Hero called
People, and they’ve good cause to be. As with other apps, People is navigated primarily by a sliding
bar at the base of the screen, which takes you from the full contacts list, to favorites (with the option to
add a new favorite), to groups, to Updates and Events (more on this in a moment) and to call history.
The Menu button brings up options to add or delete a contact, view an entry, search through People,
import from SIM and synchronize Exchange contacts
What elevates People above and beyond the standard Android address book is its integration with
Facebook and Flickr. By entering your login details for one or both, People automatically tries to match
up contacts you have on those networks with entries in your address book. Doing so pulls in their
latest Facebook status update, photo galleries from both sites, their birthday and email address, and
their avatar photo which is used as a contact photo. If People can’t match them up correctly – we had
a few different names in our lists, which confused it – then you can manually link profiles. The
“Updates and Events” tab shows any new changes from the two sites, such as upcoming birthdays and
new galleries; tapping into an individual contact shows the same for just that individual, together with
panes for any messages, emails and calls between you and them.
It all works surprisingly well, and is certainly a straightforward way to fill in contact photos and missing
birthdays across your address book. There’s little lag in updating, and by tapping your own entry at
the top of the contacts list you can see your own Facebook and Flickr notifications, handling any
unread messages, event invitations, friend requests and other alerts. We wish – given the work HTC

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have obviously done on Peep – there was a way to link in Twitter accounts in a similar fashion to
Facebook, but currently there is not.
Plugging the Hero into a PC brings up the options to either treat it as a mass storage device or to
launch HTC Sync. This latter app, available as a free download though only for Windows PCs, allows
you to synchronize your Outlook or Windows Address Book (i.e. Outlook Express contacts) with the
Hero, rather than using a wired ActiveSync connection.
Unfortunately HTC Sync doesn’t seemingly manage
your calendar entries in the same way, which is a
shame because the new Calendar app on the Hero
is a generally pleasant way to get organized. It
defaults to a month view (as does the large
homescreen widget; the small version has a single
line of the next upcoming appointment) but offers day
and event-list views via the Menu button. There’s
also a Calendars button, which allows you to switch
between various different agenda sources: Outlook
(wirelessly via ActiveSync) and any Google Calendars
you might have. These can be set to all
simultaneously display (with different color coding) or
toggled off to only show particular agendas.
If the Calendar is intended to organize your life
moving forward, then HTC Footprints is more about
looking back. A feature of certain GPS-enabled
Windows Mobile devices from HTC’s stable,
Footprints basically allows you to snap a photo with
the Hero’s camera, geotag it, and then add various
details including phone number, website, a voice
memo, star rating and notes. Finally you can
categorize it – shopping, dining, etc – and share
them via SD card. It’s a straightforward system, and if you regularly travel then it’s handy to make a
note of favorite restaurants and the like, but we wish there was a simple way to share Footprint entries
online with others.
Loading up content for the Hero’s media app is easiest
done via a USB connection, and HTC supply a suitable
cable in the box. The smartphone mounts the
microSD card as a removable drive, and you can drag
and drop audio and video files straight across. Files
on the microSD card are automatically registered into
the app, which is a basic though functional PMP.
There’s the usual shuffle, repeat and playlist
functionality, together with sorting tracks by artist,
album and other ID3 data, and you can also set files
as the active ringtone directly from the mediaplayer
app. Audio quality from the built-in speaker is loud if
not especially refined, but thankfully we’ve no
complaints with quality via the 3.5mm headphones
jack, particularly if you do the sensible thing and plug
in your own headphones rather than those HTC
supply. During playback the volume keys control the
music, rather than ringtone volume.
As for the impact of music playing in background on
other apps, we noticed a very small amount of lag

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introduced, particularly when loading a data-heavy
application such as a full inbox or lengthy contacts list.
Happily there was little impact on web browsing speed,
with page panning and zooming as smooth as usual. In fact, our general impression of the Hero’s
performance has been very good, with the Sense modifications doing little to slow the smartphone
down.
Turning to the browser, the biggest news here is the addition of multitouch support for pinch-zooming
together with Flash playback. The app is generally the same as on previous Android devices, only
instead of zoom in/out buttons you can close and spread your fingers to manipulate the page. It’s a far
more natural way of browsing, and allows for much finer control, and frankly it’s about time an Android
smartphone supported it (officially). Double-tapping to reformat text works well, and the trackball steps
neatly between links for when navigating more crowded pages. Multiple browser windows can be
opened, though we did experience a couple of odd moments where background pages were closed
without warning.
As for Flash support, this instantly kicks the HTC Hero a step ahead of many other smartphones on
the market. Although there’s HTC’s usual excellent YouTube viewer preloaded on the phone, you can
now stop by the full YouTube site and watch in-page streaming video too. To be honest, the layout of
the standalone app actually makes it more usable than YouTube’s site, but the Flash support comes
into its own when you encounter in-page videos on news and review sites. In our tests, only Vimeo
videos failed to load, though connection speed also has a significant affect on overall browser
performance when buffering footage.

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Flash is more than just video, though, and so we stopped by some graphics and animation-intensive
MySpace pages to see if we could overload the Hero’s browser. Unfortunately not every element
loaded; the music player many users have underneath their profile information was the most obvious
error, telling us we needed an upgraded version of Flash. Stepping over to a Flash game site proved
disappointing too, with games taking very long periods to load and then usually proving uncontrollable
in the absence of a keyboard or mouse. It’s certainly possible that some titles will be better suited to
the Hero than others, mind.
With pinch-zoom supported in the Android browser, it was a surprise to find that the same functionality
didn’t work in Google Maps on the Hero. Instead, you’re left with the same zoom in/out buttons as
usual. The Hero has the same Street View support as earlier Android phones, accessed by tapping
and holding a point on the display and selecting it from the pop-up menu. There are directions for
driving and walking, but no voice-prompts so in-car use isn’t advised.

The Hero’s camera is a step up, offering 5-megapixels with autofocus though no flash. It records both
stills and video, toggled between with a simple on-screen button, and has basic white balance,
brightness and flicker adjustment. There’s also a self-timer and optional geotagging. Photos are
captured as JPEGs while video can be H.263 or MPEG4; once taken, they can be uploaded to
Facebook, Flickr, Picasa or YouTube, or sent via GMail, HTC Mail, MMS or Peep (Twitter). Quality,

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meanwhile, is reasonable though not likely to displace dedicated point-and-shoot digicams or some of
the high-end imaging featurephones we’ve seen in recent months. Still, it’s a welcome step up from
the Dream and Magic.
One of HTC Sense’s more impressive introductions is the new on-screen keyboard, and this is a real
step up from what arrived on the HTC Magic with the Android OS 1.5 Cupcake release. Obviously
both portrait and landscape orientations are catered for, each with well-spaced QWERTY layouts and
secondary pages of numbers and symbols, while those secondary characters can also be accessed by
pressing and holding the relevant letter key. As you do so, a preview of the character pops up above
your fingertip, handy for ensuring you’re tapping the key you intended to. There’s also auto-complete
and auto-correct, with a list of words showing up above the keyboard as you type; you can either tap
them or press space to select the current highlighted word. Adding new words to the dictionary is also
well handled; if you type a word the Hero doesn’t recognize, you can tap space to insert it or tap the
word itself on-screen to not only insert but to add it to the dictionary for later use. In all, the keyboard
is a real pleasure to use and we had no problems building up a decent typing speed in either
orientation, especially when holding the Hero in landscape and thumb-tapping with both hands.

Elsewhere, there’s the usual array of Android apps and options, including the Android Market for
software downloads. The BBC iPlayer app works well on the Hero, and of course you can add
shortcuts to newly downloaded software onto the various homescreen panes. We’re hoping HTC – or
third-parties – release some more homescreen widgets, as we really like the instant ease-of-use they
bring to the platform.
HTC supply a 1,350mAh battery with the Hero, 10mAh more than the Magic, but quote up to 420
minutes of WCDMA talktime or 470 minutes of GSM talktime (20 minutes more than its predecessor).
They also suggest up to 660 hours of WCDMA standby or up to 420 hours of GSM standby. We didn’t
have enough time to put the Hero through the sort of charge/discharge and use cycles we would have
liked to; however, with regular use of messaging and browser, plus several calls and email regularly
checking over a mixture of WiFi and 3G, we found the phone would last morning to night before
needing a recharge. This is certainly a handset you’ll be charging every night, but from our experience
over the past few days it shouldn’t require the mid-day top-up many iPhone 3G users, say, report.
Back in our initial unboxing and overview of the HTC Hero, we tongue-in-cheek suggested that it could
be the best Android smartphone to date. Having spent more time with it, that cavalier prediction is
looking highly accurate. Android’s flexibility is, arguably, one of its biggest stumbling blocks; out of the
box there’s little to guide a new owner through the platform’s capabilities. By introducing Sense,
however, HTC have made the Hero instantly usable, and they’ve done so not with the bare minimum
of app investment but with a range of programs that offer up-to-date functionality like social network
integration.
Best of all, HTC’s dedication to developing Sense and treating UI as a long-haul process rather than a
short-term prettification exercise gives us hope that the few shortfalls and omissions we’re currently
seeing in version one of the Hero will be addressed over time. It’s reassuring to know that not only is

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the Hero a great smartphone but that it’s only likely to get better as HTC continue their tweaks. It’s
safe to say that, in the HTC Hero, Android has come of age.
The HTC Hero is available unlocked and SIM-free from Clove.co.uk, priced at £335 pre-VAT. They
offer international shipping.
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LaughingJohn 2 years ago
Several other reviews seem to suggest that the interface has quite a lag to it, although you don't seem
to highlight this very much. Can you comment on whether the phone is actually usable or whether the
lag becomes annoying?
Thanks.
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Chris Davies 2 years ago
We've actually been talking about this in the forums over at AndroidCommunity.com. The reason I
didn't mention lag is because I didn't really experience any; there's a slight slow-down in flicking
away from a homescreen pane if the widget is updating (such as Peep getting the latest tweets)
but it's incredibly minor (IMO). There was never a lag or delay that I could legitimately say was
annoying. The camera, too, seemed faster than some sites are reporting.
The speed you see in the demo videos is basically the speed the Hero ran at all of the time. I've
talked with HTC about the differing experiences, and they're just as confused as we are; they say
all the review devices (which I'm taking to mean those in the UK and those shipped to the US for
reviews there) are running the same production ROM. However there are obviously some
differences in performance across the board, not to mention I know a few people have had
glitchier devices than others.

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