HTC Hero Review
What can be said about the HTC Hero has not been said? After a week of using it a lot, almost like my first phone, the first and last impression is fantastic, really, you have not had the feeling that a terminal is really good. Since its construction, through the software and the possibilities it offers.
Hardware
Its characteristics are very similar to HTC Magic. Talking about a terminal with a 3.2 inches display, 5 megapixel camera, a 512MB ROM and 288MB RAM, compatible with HSPA networks, GPS, digital compass, Bluetooth 2.0 stereo WiFi smartphone – very complete! all with Android operating system, which gives much more value.
Even entire speaker are in the rear, you still could hear nusic without any problems. When the volume is full and has many serious music, the sound starts to distort, which is inevitable, these speakers really are not designed for use at full volume, this is the best way to use Bluetooth stereo speakers.
For speed, yes, it’s fast, but unpretentious. HTC Hero has more 288 RAM 288MB. Feel that, but neither are especially prominent. Positions seem to be able to support the new interface for a real improvement in the terminal and performance.
Software
Android is an operating system and designed so well done that you really a switch that uses the terminal, including the iPhone. This operating system being developed by Google will impose a hard and fast rule: use a Gmail account. Is this bad? Well, today if you really are better than an email from Google, decidmelo because I believe it is not a problem, it is rather a disadvantage.
The account you use Google to provide both access to the contents of Android Market to be using your email and calendar of your Google Contacts and Google Calendar appointments.
It is compatible with Google Apps accounts, even while a Gmail account “normal” and have the excuse (cheap) that it’s a cellphone to work.
Unfortunately, Android is not evolved in a very important topic: music. Your player is pretty poor, is not quite achieved that navigation should be improved as soon as possible. Not that it’s rubbish, but how important is music today in the phones, should be the main issue to be addressed in future versions of Android.
Virtual Keyboard
The keyboard on a phone with touch screen for some reason is not one of the most important things for most people looking for a cellphone of this type. It’s something I do not understand, how not to give importance to what is sure to use more time to communicate?
In Android and HTC with the design of Sense, the virtual keyboard is probably the second best keyboard you can find today is light years away from Samsung, LG, Windows Mobile … but is still in second place compared to the iPhone, which is currently without doubt the best.
But not “defeat” on the contrary, this keyboard is very close to perfection, just that maybe you need some more pixels of separation and that their spellchecker learn which are the accents.
HTC Sense
HTC Sense is a new interface designed by HTC to do it “differently”, ie a terminal noteworthy beyond its operating system or hardware. But honestly, where is it positive? HTC has this habit of trying to do the same all its terminals, as has happened with Windows Mobile and TouchFLO interface UI.
HTC Sense is completely unnecessary, yes, you have a different design, but neither aid nor makes things easier. Personally present the design of Android HTC Sense is perfect and has been in large part a waste of time.
What can not be denied is that the new widgets for Android HTC is very good. Peep from HTC is a widget and an application for Twitter, the meteorological information widget, post … They are quite interesting, but unfortunately can not be used with the interface normal Android.
Screen
The main feature that you can draw attention, with the camera, compared with the HTC Dream and Magic, is that this is the first Android coming to market with a screen multitáctil.
Its use is identical to what you can expect from such a screen, for now the only option we can use is the “pinch” the screen to zoom into an image or a webpage. Perhaps their failure is that it is not possible to use this gesture to zoom in Google Maps, one inherited from the previous error with HTC touch screen.
With a resolution of 480 × 320 pixels, the integrated motion sensor that rotates the screen in any application, so if they did not understand how it is possible that remains limited to a horizontal position on the buttons on the right side, an error inherited most of the HTC Dream for your physical keyboard.
Camera
5 megapixels, really? It is not the problem with the camera of the HTC Hero, but not noticed much difference with a 3 megapixel. You can not expect much from a terminal case, where the more premium is that everything is compressed, the optical force can not be good.
So if auto what is being grateful when you gonna make a macro photo. Even so, I noticed the same problems as always, poor automatic white balance, night shots impossible to realize, for its lack of flash and because the quality is very bad.
To see evidence of the camera’s HTC Hero, better browsing Flickr.
Conclusion
A winner, no doubt, HTC Hero is now one of the best smartphone on the market.
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