HTC Hero’s UI and Android build demo’d on video

HTC Hero’s UI and Android build demo’d on video

picture-3Most of us are still reading about Cupcake and haven’t even had a chance to taste Google’s latest offering first hand.

A chap called Haykuro has hacked the latest build of Android meant for the HTC Hero and released a video of his latest spoils. Don’t ask us how he manages to get his hands on these exclusive items, nor how he manages to remain alive and out of sight from the Google agents who are undoubtedly trying to track him down and neutralize him. Perhaps he has family ties, who knows.

The video shows a rather good-looking Android build designed for the upcoming phone code-named the HTC Hero. It would appear as though push-email may be supported (HTC synch) and there is also a new-and-improved music player. There is not much else to say apart from, sit back and enjoy.  Video after the jump!

Update: Initially we referred to the Hero’s OS build as Donut (Android 2.0).  That, however, was incorrect.  Sorry for the confusion.


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  • Greality

    Isn’t Donut supposed to be 2.0? His firmware definitely said 1.5.

  • nick podges

    Please correct the errors in this post.

    This is NOT donut.

    This is android 1.5 (which was known as ‘cupcake’ before release, but now is simply ‘android 1.5′)

    The features for donut have not even been announced nor decided, nor is the milestone anywhere near being completed. When donut is completed, it will be merged into the AOSP as “android 2.0″ in Q3 2009.

    What you see in this video is a UI made by the folks at HTC. This is not part of the AOSP.

    Just like HTC has made UI tweaks for WM devices, such as touchflo, this is just a prettier interface for android 1.5.

    This is still great for all android users, but please stop calling it “donut.” It is misleading at the least.

  • vitriolix

    Sigh, the Android blog’s are so bad about spreading misinformation. 1) Donut is just the dev branch for the next release, not even google know if this will be 2.0 or 1.6 (ie, major overhaul, or incremental improvement) at this point, search the mailing lists for Donut and see yourself. 2) this is clearly just HTC’s own skin on Android, like they do for all the OSs they ship. considering this looks nothing like Android *or* Google’s styling, you’d think that would be obvious

  • http://www.mobileburn.com/ Michael Oryl

    Yes, we admit we had this wrong. The story has been updated.

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