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Tweet Find Coverage: Release Date: Q4 2009 Released For: Sprint - Discontinued Released for Sprint, the HTC Hero is a Google Android smartphone that blends form and function. It has a bevelled edges and an angled bottom contoured to fit against the face. The handset features HTC's Sense user interface, focusing on making people the center. Users can view Facebook status updates and photos with their text messages, emails and call history in a single view. The Hero has a dedicated Search button to search through Twitter, locate people in the contact list and find emails in the inbox. Its anti-fingerprint screen and Teflon coating is offers smudge resistance. It also includes a 3.2-inch HVGA screen, GPS, digital compass, gravity-sensor, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, a 5.0-megapixel auto-focus camera and expandable microSD memory.

• Selection of widgets can be placed right on the home screen to switch scenes, catch up with friends, capture some memories with Footprints, or view local time, weather and maps
• Stay close to friends by viewing text exchanges, email conversations, Facebook status, Flickr photo albums and phone logs, neatly organized by people
• Dedicated search button combs through tweets in Twitter, locates people in the contact list, finds emails in the inbox and searches through appointments in the calendar
• See web pages come alive on a full-featured mobile browser that displays Flash-based sites

HTC Rezound	Samsung Stratosphere	Samsung Galaxy S2	Samsung Transform Ultra	Motorola Droid Bionic
Verizon	Verizon	AT&T / Sprint / T-Mobile	Sprint	Verizon
$199.99	Free!	$179.99	$19.99	$79.99

Technical
Network:	CDMA 800 / 1900
Form Factor:	Block / Google Android OS
Dimensions:	112 x 56 x 14 mm
Weight:	135 g
Antenna:	Internal
Navigation:	Touch Screen / Trackball
Battery Type:	1350 mAh Li-Ion
Talk Time:	7.8 hours
Standby Time:	18.3 days
Memory:	288.0 MB
Expandable Memory:	microSD / TransFlash
Safety
Radiation (SAR):	(1.13 W/kg)
Imaging
Main Screen:	TFT / Accelerometer / Compass 65,000 colors (320 x 480 px)
External Screen:
Camera:	5.0 MP / Zoom / Auto-Focus / Video Recorder
Audio
MP3 Player:	Sprint Music Store
FM Radio:
Speakerphone:
Push-To-Talk:
Multimedia
Wallpapers:	320 x 480 px
Screen Savers:	320 x 480 px
Ring Tones:	MP3
Themes:
Games:	Android Market
Streaming Multimedia:	Sprint TV
Messaging
SMS:
EMS:
MMS:
Email:	POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP / Gmail
Chat:	AOL / ICQ / Google / Windows Live / Yahoo
Predictive Text:	Handwriting Recognition
Applications
Phonebook Capacity:
Calendar:	Google Calendar
To-Do List:
WAP:	2.0 (Webkit / Google Search)
Voice Commands:
Calculator:
Connectivity
Bluetooth:	2.0 (A2DP / AVRCP / HFP / HSP / SPP)
Infrared Port:
High-Speed Data:	cdma2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A
Wi-Fi:	802.11 b/g
GPS:	Sprint Navigation / Google Maps Street View
PC Sync:	USB 2.0
More Information
Website:	Product Website
Discussion:	Smartphone / PDA Forum

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