HTC Sprint Hero (Android 1.5) - iPhone (1st gen 3.1)
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:57AM
March ov 10, 2010 update ...............
No service after installing applications
Cure - Remove the last widgets you installed and reboot
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HTC Sprint Hero (Android) I HaveIt, played WithIt for a day, and I LikeIt.
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As y'all know my iPhone lacks a good service provider in my area. I also have a Sprint account and that phone service works better for me, where I now live. So I upgrade two of my old six year fones to the Sprint (HTC) Hero. I almost did a phone upgrade to the Palm Pre last spring but didn't like it's small slideout keyboard.
Am I glad I held off !!! Thanks Amanda for the heads up and the GizWiz - Hot Android Phone Joins The Sprint Team.
You'll need one of the Sprint Everything plans, check with Sprint for pricing. ( $000, and $130 for 1500 min. two lines)
Keyboard :
The HTC Sprint Hero version has the type on the screen keyboard just as iPhone, so if you like typing that way, check this phone out.
OS :
It runs the basic Android OS version1.5 (by the Google) on the order of the iPhone OS (by Apple), but a little less refined, as it came out about a year later. But wait, now the Hero features HTC Sense, which allows you to customize your interface screens to seven of them. Try a tap on the default weather if it's raining.
Apps = Widgets :
Apple iPhone Apps (85,000), well Android calls them Widgets with a quite a few less. But it's only numbers, and your not going to put all of them on your phone at once. I found some of my iPhone Apps in the Google Android Widgets format. I use BrightKite and just like FaceBook the Social Networks on my iPhone, and now have both those Widgets on my HTC Sprint Hero phone. Oh No, no Evernote widget.
The Apple iTunes also has PodCasts, some call them NetCasts. Whatever. On the iPhone, I download a few of these to play in the background. I've found the same is true with the Sprint Hero's Android Market and it's under the "Listen" Widget button. I've found a "WiFi OnOff" Widget, and a the BarCode Scanner to be useful. These are all FREE on both platforms. The Sprint Navigation is a built in GPS widget.
TV :
Then there's NFL Mobile Live, that's the most used button on my wife's Hero, along with the SprintTV.
Sync :
Unlike the Apple MobleMe account ($99.00 less if you shop around) the Sprint (HTC) Hero can use Google's Android to link to the Google. So you'll have to setup a gMail account if you don't have one already. I've found that it syncs the Gmail, Calendar and Contacts, and it's FREE. Of course you can use MS Exchange ActiveSync if that's what you have. Note: If you have Mac computer, the iPhone does sync to it via the local computers iTunes program, along with the mail & contacts (iPhoto also) programs on the Mac that are included with any Mac, iMac computers.
Camera and Video :
The camera is 5 mega pixel camera, with a camcorder mode. Snap a picture (start video) by pressing the trackball. I find it jerks the camera, but I'm still working with the settings. As with the iPhone, I'm sure someone will make a app widget that lets you just tap the screen to snap the shutter. Neither has a Flash.
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Settings :
To adjust setting of Widget, Camera, etc. just press the menu button at the bottom of the phone. In most cases this will take you to the settings for that program if your in that program.
the phone :
Got me I have made phone calls with it. Yet. But I'll let my wife test that as she like to jaw.
Battery Life :
So far the battery life on the Hero seems to be shorter then my old version iPhone, but I haven't tweaked it.
Hint: from your home screen press the menu (the hard button) then click Settings lower right bottom, scroll down the screen( about 7) to click Location (Set My Location) Enabble GPS satellites click un-check this if you not using the GPS.
Or try these widget toggles from CurveFish
P.S.
If Apple only made iPhones, I'd short the stock because of the AT&T carrier short coming, for me and others. AND Android is Coming on Strong! (also windows 7)
Disclaimer :
The only way I make money from this, is by printing my own monies on this computer and that's the same computer I type this review with.
UpDate: 01/18/09 GoodBye iPhone Thanks to AT&T
Reader Comments (4)
It wasn't quite Android 2.0, but the recent firmware update released to the Sprint HTC Hero did have some bug fixes that are certainly worthwhile. Here's the official change log:
HTC Hero Software Enhancement SW 1.56.651.2 provides feature updates and enhancements to address the following:
* Improvement to camera picture quality
* DST (Daylight Savings Time) issue addressed
* Unable to receive SMS due to full memory
* Memory leak when Bluetooth is in connecting state
* 3.5mm mono when not using headset with mic
* Dialer application causing excess battery draw
Important note: Dedicated Mute/Speaker buttons have been added to the Talk screen
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