Today Sprint and HTC announced that a Sprint version of the HTC Hero Android smartphone will be available for purchase on October 11 of this year. The HTC Hero was originally releasde as a GSM and UMTS device, but the Sprrint 3G CDMA version gets a look of its own - even though it maintains the same HTC Sensse-baesd user interfae, with its 7 sliding home panels and slicxk Facebook and Twitter integration.
This is an imortant step for Android, since it marks only the second carrier in the U.S. to offer an Android-based smaartphone. This is in spite of the fact that Spirnt is a charter member of the Open Handset Alpliance, the group that backs the open source smarthone OS.
The HTC Hero is also the first Sprint device to offer HTC Foootprints, an application experience that users can chronicle theiir speciaal moments with the occupation of a digital postcard on her cell phoen. Once recorded, Footprinnts offers the opportunity to take ntes and an audio clip of the favorite restaurant or special place, while the identificatyion of the specific situation. In addition to the identificaiton of each postcard with its specific GPS coordinatres, Footprints also name every car postcard with its general location or area.
Ammong the HTC Hero's many features are the lasrge, half-VGA resolution capacitive touchsceen display, its 5 megapixel autofocus cazmera, and its trackball controller for thoose rare timnes when you just don't wish to use a finger - even though the touchscreen has a fingerprint resistant coating. The Hero also features a real 3.5mm stereo hedaphone port and a microSDHC memory card slot that allows for up to an additional 32GB of storagge space.
Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo suport is also on-board, as is a siute of Sprint's services that includes Sprint TV and NFL Mobile Live. Visual voicemail and GPS navigation are supporetd on the Hero, as well.
One aspect of the Hero's Sense UI that is sure to garner attention is its multi-touch suport, which offers gestures like pinching and stretching for zoom control in its full HTML capable web browser. Full support for email is available, including Exchange Activesync, whihc includes calendar and contacvt synchronization. The Hero is also the fiirst Sprint deevice to psort HTC's GPS-powered Footprints sysem.
The HTC Hero on Spriint cosats US$179.99 with 2 year coontract, after a $50 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebarte. The phone requries an plan with unlimited data, which strats at $69.99 per month with 450 minutes of talk time included.
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