HTC Hero / T-Mobile G2 Touch Expert Reviews

Although it has some quirks, the variety of features and the high customizability that the Hero smartphone offers is hard to beat.

Ergonomic design with solid construction; sense UI is attractive and customizable

Native Flash support didn't always work; sluggish performance

Compared with the European Hero, the Sprint-branded version looks like a completely different phone. Its corners are much more rounded, and it no longer has the trademark HTC chin. The hardware buttons are rearranged and now surround the trackball, ...

HTC's sophisticated Hero hits a home run with all the features missing from earlier Android efforts.

HTC Sense Android OS; multi-touch interface; outlook contact/calendar sync; visual voicemail; 3.5mm headphone jack

5MP photos often out of focus; no flash; sluggish operation; confusing USB connectivity; short battery life (4 hrs. talk)

There's a flurry of Android phones out there and not so long ago but the HTC Hero is different not only because it has a better physical design, but also because it has HTC Sense, a proprietary user interface extension that only HTC-branded phones ...

HTC Sense provides great selection of widgets, Highly accurate touchscreen with haptic feedback, Very good Web browser, Sprint Navigation and Sprint TV included

No camera flash, Lackluster camcorder

The Hero doesn't offer a physical QWERTY keyboard, so you'll be relying entirely on the touch screen. At first, we had to be very deliberate with each key press, but over time we learned to type accurately and quickly. We appreciated the haptic ...

HTC's third Android OS smartphone, the HTC Hero ($180 with a two-year contract from Sprint; price as of 9/23/2009), is a giant leap forward for the company's family of Android phones, both in hardware and software. It isn't without its flaws, however: ...

Ergonomic design with solid construction ; Sense UI is attractive and customizable

Native Flash support didn’t play some video ; Sluggish performance

A noteworthy addition: HTC has finally listened to our gripes and shameless begging for a 3.5-mm headphone jack. At last, I can use my better-quality Skullcandy to enjoy my music. Sound quality was great through my headphones, but a bit tinny through ...

At long last, the HTC Hero is now all powered up, ready to take on the world. But is the world ready for the third Android device by HTC? And will HTC's Sense UI debut performance on the Android phone truly enhance the user experience? With batteries ...

To make sense of all this, we present a quick video overview of what the Sense UI is all about. Following up, we'll be diving head first into the Hero, and discover how HTC's new user interface makes absolute Sense to us

A lot has happened since the first Google phone arrived 12 months ago. So it makes sense for HTC to finally make a legitimate stab at upgrading the Android operating system, now that Palm has its web-errific Pre, the iPhone graduated to video (not to ...

Camera flaunts touch-only zoom with tap-to-focus. Responsive touch-qwerty more or less comparable to iPhone. Battery lasts for DAYS (36+ hours!). 3.5mm headphone jack. Flash-enabled. Dead-simple USB mounting: Plug in, drag down top menu, and voila, ...

SD slot is only accessible by removing cover. This Hero has Flash, but how about a camera with a flash? Optional haptic feedback is about as subtle as a 6.5 earthquake. Lack of image stabilization produces videos reminiscent of Cloverfield. 340 x 280 ...

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Excellent build. Capacitive touch screen. Lots of new, useful applications. Inexpensive

Some bugs. Slow Internet speeds. Lousy camera

The HTC Hero is the best Google Android phone so far, but it falls just short of the other leaders in the smartphone field.