HTC Hero Android Phone features HTC Sense User Interface and Flash Support
HTC has unveiled its next Android-powered smart phone, the HTC Hero which features and new user interface called HTC Sense. Some of you may now that the T-Mobile G1 Android smartphone was developed by HTC, and the HTC Hero sports a similar angled bottom. The HTC
Hero looks MUCH thinner than the G1, and sleeker overall due to the fact that the Hero is all touch screen with no sliding QWERTY keyboard like the G1 phone.
The HTC Hero has an anti-fingerprint screen coating, and the white HTC Hero even includes an industry-first, Teflon coating which is said to make for a durable white surface that is soft to the touch. Stand-out features on the device include a 3.2-inch HVGA touch screen display, GPS, digital compass, WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR + A2DP, gravity-sensor, Flash support, a 3.5mm stereo headset jack, a 5-mega-pixel autofocus camera and expandable MicroSD memory. The device is powered by Qualcomm MSM7200A 528MHz processor, and includes 512 MB of ROM and 288 MB of RAM. HTC also added a dedicated Search button that lets you search through Twitter, locate people in your contact list, find emails in your inbox or search other content on the phone. Sort of like Spotlight search on an iPhone 3GS.
The HTC Hero will be available across Europe in July and in Asia later in the summer. A North American version, presumably from T-Mobile (G3?) in the US, will be available later in 2009. Watch the HTC Hero Android phone with HTC Sense UI video presentation below.
More details from HTC:
HTC Sense
Built on a culture of innovation and a passion to enhance people’s
lives, HTC shapes the mobile experience around the individual. Debuting
on the HTC Hero and available on all new HTC devices moving forward,
Sense delivers on three basic principles: Make it Mine, Stay Close and
Discover the Unexpected.
Make It Mine
Make It Mine is about feeling your HTC phone was created for and by
you. To do this, HTC encourages you to dictate and organize how you
want to access the people and content in your life in a way that fits
best for you. For some, this means adding glance-view widgets that push
content like twitter feeds, weather and other content to the surface
while others may want quick access to business-focused information like
email, calendar and world-times. HTC is also introducing a new profile
feature called ‘Scenes’ that enables you to create different customized
content profiles around specific functions or times in your life.
Stay Close
Today, staying in touch with the people in your life means managing a
variety of communication channels and applications ranging from phone
calls, emails, texts, photos, status updates and more. HTC Sense takes
a different approach by integrating these communication channels and
applications into one single view, enabling you to stay closer to your
important people. With HTC Sense, friends’ Facebook status updates and
photos, along with their Flickr photos are included alongside their
text messages, emails and call history in a single view.
Discover the Unexpected
Many of the most memorable moments in your life are experienced, not
explained. HTC Sense is focused on providing a variety of these simple
yet innovative experiences on your HTC phone that will sometimes bring
you moments of joy and delight. It can be something as basic as turning
the phone over to silence a ring or as simple as improving the smart
dialler for making calls quicker. HTC Sense also includes
‘Perspectives’, a new way for viewing your content such as email,
photos, Twitter, music and more in different ways.
via | Crunchgear
