HTC Hero Touchscreen 3G mobile phone reviews
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+ This mobile phone scores high on features. - It scores poorly on battery life.
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Most helpful reviewsConfirmed purchaser Business or web user
- Good points:
- Nice design, use of Android OS.
- Bad points:
- No sensor to change the status of the phone when it is next to your ear / away from your ear - I got really used to this feature on my old iPhone.
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Confirmed purchase: 20 Jul 2010
susan, brynmawr ebbwvale gwent Basic text and chat user
- Good points:
- i have found this phone so easy to use compared with others i have had, everything you need is at your fingertips no looking at instruction books absolutely great, would recomend it to anyone
- Bad points:
- if you play games and use the internet, you have to charge it quite often.
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Confirmed purchase: 17 Jul 2010
Confirmed purchaser Basic text and chat user
- Good points:
- Easy to use, lots of apps. Even takes dropping pretty well.
- Bad points:
- Does tend to disconnect in the middle of calls when my ear touches the screen.
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Confirmed purchase: 15 Jul 2010
Confirmed purchaser Basic text and chat user
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- Reviewer left no comment
- Bad points:
- Loss of 3G and no updates because of that.
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Confirmed purchase: 12 Jul 2010
Confirmed purchaser Basic text and chat user
- Good points:
- good typing interface
- Bad points:
- Very poor battery life although this is a problem across many smart phones
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Confirmed purchase: 01 Jul 2010
jackie, hull Basic text and chat user
- Good points:
- Reviewer left no comment
- Bad points:
- hard to use cant get into messages & phone as easy as other phones
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Confirmed purchase: 01 Jul 2010
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Product Features
| Operating system | Android |
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| Shape of phone | Bar |
| 3G | Yes |
| Touchscreen or keypad | Touchscreen |
| Connections | Bluetooth |
| Connections | WiFi |
| Connections | USB |
| Extra functions | Satellite navigation |
| Extra functions | Camera |
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| Extra functions | Instant messaging |
| Band | Quad |
| Horizontal resolution (Pixels) | 320 |
| Vertical resolution (Pixels) | 480 |
| Camera resolution (MegaPixels) | 5 |
| Talk time (Hours) | 7 |
| Stand-by time (Days) | 18.3 |
| Depth in cm | 1.435 |
| Height in cm | 11.2 |
| Width in cm | 5.62 |
| Memory card slot | Yes |
| Autofocus | Yes |
| Weight (g) | 135 |
| EDGE | Yes |
| FM tuner | No |
| MP3 playback capable | Yes |
| HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) | Yes |
| Java | Yes |
| Release date | 2009-07-15 |
Also known as: HTC G2, T-Mobile, HTC
Mobile Phone Buyers GuideManufacturer's Description
TC 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.
Make it Mine
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.
Stay Close
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.
Discover the Unexpected
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. Your inbox is not just a list of emails, but a catalog of conversations, a collection of notes flagged as important, and a document library of all your emails with attachments. Your Album is not just the photos saved on your phone. It is also a gateway to online collections of you and your friends on Facebook or Flickr.
Search just about anything, anywhere on your HTC Hero. The dedicated Search button combs through tweets in Twitter™, locates people in your contact list, finds emails in your inbox, searches through appointments in the calendar and very nearly finds needles in haystacks.
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| HTC Hero | £175 + £5 delivery |
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Bristol, Rob Basic text and chat user
Score 8.0/10Confirmed purchase: 21 Jul 2010