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If you are a proud HTC Hero owner, then you may have been looking at the newer Android devices running Android 2.0 or 2.1 with a little disdain. We say ‘may’ because if you have the technological know how, it is possible to gain root access to your HTC Hero and install a leaked ROM [...]

HTC’s just mentioned a new firmware update for the Hero on Orange a few minutes ago, so I thought I’d point it out to all of our EU readers.
You can get the HTC Hero firmware update here.

If App sales are any indication, the Motorola DROID is topping the charts as the most popular Android device. According to mobile application analytic firm Flurry, the Motorola DROID accounted for 49% of all applications purchased from the Android Market on Christmas day in the US. The DROID was followed by the myTouch 3G with [...]

More Nexus One images and videos continue to hit the blogosphere. This time around we have the Nexus One buddying up with the HTC Hero and sitting pretty next to an iPhone. In the images, you can really see the large screen and the smooth curves of the Nexus One. It is slightly longer and [...]

We are happy to report that the rumor about the Sprint HTC Hero and the Samsung Moment getting updated to Android 2.0 in the first half of 2010 was incorrect. Straight from Sprint’s official twitter account is the confirmation that the Hero and the Moment will be updated to Android 2.1, skipping right over Android [...]

In an informal and non-committal manner, Sprint announced today via Twitter that the HTC Hero and the Samsung Moment will be updated to Android 2.0 in the first half of 2010. Both handsets are still running stock Android 1.5 and are lagging a bit behind the current crop of handsets which are rocking Android 2.0. Let’s hope all parties [...]

Those screen shots that showed the HTC Hero running Android 2.1 were a harbinger of better things to come. Instead of merely drooling over Android 2.1 with Sense UI running on someone else’s Hero, you can now experience it first hand. Available now for your downloading and flashing pleasure is an Android 2.1 ROM complete [...]

Folks with the HTC Hero and the DROID Eris have been plowing along with Android 1.5 while HTC updates its Sense UI to be fully compatible with Android 2.0. The wait might be over as screen shots, purportedly of the HTC Hero rocking Android 2.1, have surfaced at the French blog, Be Geek. If the [...]

Best Buy put out a release touting its selection of 5 Android smartphones that are available for $99.99 this holiday season.
The HTC Hero and Samsung Moment are down to $99.99 from Sprint’s normal $179.99.  T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G and Motorola CLIQ are down to $99.99 from $149.99 and $199.99, respectively.  Best Buy is also offering the [...]

I finally got around to putting together a review specific to the U.S. versions of the HTC Hero, Sprint’s own Hero and the DROID Eris for Verizon.  They are largely the same as the original Hero found in Europe and other parts of the world, but as a U.S. site, it made sense (pardon the [...]