Unlocked HTC Hero gets Android 2.1 update — no, for real this time
False starts aside, that promised late June Android 2.1 upgrade for the GSM version of the HTC Hero is finally here -- for unlocked models, anyhow. It seems that users are being greeted with an update clocking in at nearly 80MB, and despite HTC's own warning to the contrary, apps aren't being wiped, so you should be able to undertake the endeavor pretty safely. Orange and T-Mobile versions of the phone apparently haven't yet begun to see the rollout, but the wait shouldn't be terribly long now -- meanwhile, let us know how your upgrade experience goes in comments, folks
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: being-greeted, contrary, endeavor, endeavor-pretty, experience-goes, htc-hero, mobile, models, terribly-long, time, Versions
Sprint: Samsung Moment and HTC Hero Android 2.1 updates now coming ‘in Q2′
Ouch. Just a few days ago, it seems like a certainty that Sprint would be pushing out Android 2.1 updates to the aging Samsung Moment and HTC Hero, but now a company admin has stepped in to assure us that things aren't nearly that close to go
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, days, fri, google-android, hero, htc, htc-hero, moment, now-coming, patience, smartphone, sprint, sprint-hero, update
HTC Hero update to Android 2.1 on April 26th in home country of Taiwan
We're past mid-March and rapidly approaching the early Q2 launch estimates for the Android 2.1 update for HTC's Hero. Now Engadget Chinese has tipped us to an official HTC release date issued on Plurk (a very popular, local Twitter-like social service) in HTC's home country of Taiwan: April 26th
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 2.1, entry, firmware-update, htc-hero, issued-on-plurk, latest-version, sense, software-update, very-popular
Sprint: Android 2.1 update for Hero, Moment coming in early Q2
And there you have it, folks -- word straight from Sprint that the much-anticipated Android 2.1 update will be coming to the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment "early" in the second quarter of this year. As you may recall, Sprint has actually been talking about this update since December , but "early 2Q10" is at least slightly better news than the previous "1H2010" estimate the carrier's been dishing out
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: been-dishing, been-talking, Carrier, hero, htc-hero, quarter, samsung-moment, samsungmoment, sprint, store
Russia gets mocha-edition HTC Hero, plastic flavor coming soon
Sure, you lament about this or that certain smartphone not coming to your wireless provider of choice, but imagine if that phone hadn't even been released in your country. For those who are Russian and for whom That Certain Smartphone is the HTC Hero, your time is finally coming, and soon. HTC sent out devices to many members of the .RU press, but rather than providing functioning ones they received models made entirely of chocolate.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: coming-soon, entry, facebook, htc, htc-hero, htchero, phone, plastic-flavor, press, provider, readers, result, russian, time
Cellular South HTC Hero to get Android 2.1 first half of 2010 …
Some great news for Cellular South customers. Cellular South has just recently tweeted that Android 2.1 is coming to their HTC Hero! Check it.
Categories: Android, htc Tags: accessories, cellular-south, confirms-google, downloads, facebook, htc, htc-hero, motorola-droid, phones, podcasts, previous, samsung-moment, south, stumbleupon, videos
How to Install Android 2.1 on HTC Hero
Lately, I've been playing with various ROMs and mods available for the HTC Hero and Droid. The latest Community Release 1.8 of Android 2.1 is quite stable faster than previous releases so I thought of giving it a try.
Categories: Android, htc Tags: design, gadgets, htc, htc-hero, install-android, iphone, microsoft, Notifications, tips-and-tricks, tools, tutorial, windows, yahoo
HTC Expresso for HTC Hero Android 2.1 Leaked
HTC Expresso is the next update to the HTC's Sense UI which will make its way to HTC phones like Hero and Droid Eris somewhere around the first half of 2010. A system dump of HTC Expresso for HTC Hero with Android 2.1 has been leaked ...
Categories: Android, htc Tags: design, desktop, droid-eris, expresso, facebook, htc, htc-hero, htc-hero-rom, iphone, windows
HTC Hero Sense UI on Motorola Droid | Redmond Pie
Ever wished to have got the powerful Sense UI from HTC Hero on your Motorola Droid? Droid, which ships with Android 2.0 has got the plain and simple interface which comes as stock from Android 2.0 OS
Categories: Android, htc Tags: delicious, download, droid, droid-phone, htc-hero, htc-sense-ui, iphone, motorola, motorola-droid, root-droid, sense, taimur-asad, theme, windows
HTC Espresso: Successor of Hero? | White Hat News
HTC Espresso: Successor of Hero? The new Android phone from HTC has intense speculation for weeks on the Internet. Here we are trying to summarize the.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: facebook, gaming, htc-espresso, htc-hero, htc-sense, htcs-flagship-hd2, intel, internet, mobile, new-windows-smartphones, science, security, technology, windows, yahoo