There's also a trackball for navigating your way around. It could be useful with Web pages and text, but we think it's overkill when there's such a responsive touchscreen at hand. Overall, in terms of navigation, overkill is the name of the game, with way too many buttons on the front suggesting that the touchscreen can't be trusted. The Hero's nowhere near as over-zealous as the Nokia N97, but, compared with the elegance of the iPhone, the plethora of context-sensitive menus and options occasionally left us feeling exhausted.
Media-monger
The Hero has a 5-megapixel camera that takes decent shots in good light,
but it's almost useless in low light due to its lack of sensitivity. It also
shoots video, but it takes forever for the camera
to get up and running. As with most phones, the camera on the Hero is fine for
snapshots, but it won't replace your compact snapper.
Getting your snaps off the phone, and music onto it, is a different process from that of most phones, because there's no dedicated syncing software for the Hero. Instead, it connects to your computer via USB, just like a flash drive, so you can drag and drop the files you want or sync using most music software. We hate being chained to iTunes with the iPhone, but the lack of syncing software means there's no way to easily back up and restore all of your applications and configurations, and you must use over-the-air syncing with Gmail or Exchange to back up your contacts, although there are apps that can help.
Also, we didn't like that we had to 'mount' the Hero each time we connected it by USB before we could access it. It does help if you just want to charge the phone without it being detected as a USB drive by your computer, but we like to transfer data frequently, and it's an extra step we don't need.
Conclusion
There's plenty missing from the iPhone, like Flash support, but what's there works
fantastically well. Android, like the Linux from which it was spawned, has always had a whiff of geekiness about it -- you're free to bolt on everything but the
kitchen sink, but it's not a perfectly
polished jewel that's always a pleasure to use.
The HTC Hero smoothes many of those rough edges, with a shiny new UI that covers Android in widgety goodness. Additions like multitouch zoom, lovely Flickr and Facebook integration and a great keyboard make the Hero the best Android phone yet, especially since it's not as ugly as we feared. In fact, we've grown to like its jutting jawbone. If only it were slightly faster and slicker, we'd consider it an iPhone killer. As it is, we'll class it as an iPhone peer.
Edited by Charles Kloet
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Caitlin Brodie 8 May 2011
Good: Android Market - apps for just about everything and mostly free!
Bad: Camera Quality and Battery Life Depletion
Comment: I bought this phone in October 2009 on a 2 year contract and I can honestly say I dont regret that at all, this phone is one of the most robust and functional phones around. I love how the home screen can be customised to suit you and I think this is general idea around the whole phone - to make everything about you. Email, Facebook and Twitter are really good and texting is also good although you have to delete your texts periodically otherwise the phone becomes a bit slow, for those who despair at the thought of losing all your messages there are many apps that back up your texts online so you always have them just not necessarily on the phone. The pure range of applications and games that are available leave you with endless possibilities so theres no scope for boredom. The music player on the phone is good although the shuffle feature is a little dodgy but nothing too major. The calendar app is also good for keeping me organised as well as applications such as Springpad which keeps all my lists and notes together. The only major downside to the phone is the battery life - when I first got the phone the battery lasted around 2 days, now it lasts just 1 but you can buy a replacement and also im assuming this is because I've charged it everyday for the past one and a half years. All in all this is an amazing phone and im definitely an Android convert, the thought of an iPhone interface instead of the Android one brings a tear to my eyes and I will definitely be buying another Android when my contract runs out.
Phonesyay1234 4 February 2011
Good: eveything it is the best phone ever
Bad: are you joking nothing
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jalil 4 December 2010
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