Typical HTC doesn’t do the bare minimum, though, and you’ll find practically every damn .png or graphic on the Hero customized from the original Android base build.

From the outside, the Hero blends elements of both the device that have gone before it; the smartphone is size-wise more in line with the Magic, but with some of the angular style of the original ...

Which HTC Hero do you prefer: the original, Chin-tastic Hero, or Sprint’s shaved down edition? Which variant of the HTC Hero do you prefer? (opinion) ...

Oh, you lucky HTC Hero owner. As of yesterday, you can download and install Android 2.1 from the HTC site and enjoy some speech-to-text and pinch-to-zoom. But not so fast. Heed this warning from ...

Would-be American Hero buyers, look at the bright side: Before Sprint’s version even ships, HTC will have ironed out most of the problems with the original. Like the slowness! Which you can now ...

The HTC Hero has been an object of lust for some time now for gadget enthusiasts. Even from the earliest days of leaked hardware shots and blurry demo videos of its UI, smartphone fans seemed to ...

It's official: the HTC Hero is to go under a different moniker for T-Mobile, with the telco calling the device the HTC G1 Touch. Obviously not content with having a Hero in its phone collection, T ...

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According to HTC UK head Phil Roberson, 2012 is going to be all about giving their customers “something special.” To that end, HTC plans to focus on a smaller number of “hero” smartphones ...

The original Hero was Sprint's first Android phone. The new "S" model contains major upgrades, including a 1.2 GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, qHD display, global GSM/WCDMA roaming, and a front ...

Sprint’s Hero is a bit blobbier than HTC’s original, but it also looks less chinny—an HTC design quirk that’s starting to get on some people’s nerves—and at any rate, there isn’t a ...

As for software, we'd recommend reading our original HTC Hero review first, as we won't be retreading old ground. HTC Sense, the latest evolution of the company's UI ethos, is the same on the ...