There must be some bad luck if you have “Hero” in your name. NBC canceled Heroes last fall (of course, it deserved it in season two), and Telus is discontinuing the HTC Hero. Considering all the times that it was getting an Android 2.1 update, it was about all that can be said. …

Celular South has recently upgraded the Android version of the HTC Hero smartphone and it is now set at version 2.1 and brings a lot of new features and improvements, including: – being able to login to multiple Gmail accounts; – support for Yahoo Mail; – improved ssecurity details for WiFi and VPN; – Google [...]

So the folks out at Wirefly sent me an HTC Hero to try, and though it took me a while to ultimately get the hang of it, I still found plenty to like about this Google-driven phone. The HTC Hero is a candy bar style smartphone that offers conference call capability, voice recorder, a trackball [...]

Before you get too bummed about the title make note that Sprint has successfully pushed out the HTC Hero Android 2.1 update generally problem free just like we had told you. However, there is one thing to make note of when upgrade your device: it deletes ‘current user data’. Luckily, if you already upgraded you [...]

It seems like the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment have been waiting for the Android 2.1 forever, and it seems like they are going to have to wait a bit longer. Sprint has just announced on their forums that the two devices will not not be getting their operating systems updated to version 2.1 until [...]

This is a photo a user sent my source concerning his HTC Hero. According to him, it began to turn pink and start to overheat. This is the first time that I have heard of this problem. I mean, we all know about the Red Ring of Death on the Xbox 360, …

Here is another Android-powered smartphone, the MDO Avatar G580 which resembles the HTC Hero without a chin. It measures just 10.7mm thin and comes with a 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor. Other features of the MDO Avatar G580 include a 3.2” 320×480 resolution HVGA display, 256 MB RAM, 256MB ROM, WiFi, and a microSD card [...]

Sprint’s two android phones will soon get an upgrade. The HTC Hero and Samsung Moment will reportedly be upgraded to Android 2.1 which is currently a work in process. Sprint is currently offering the Samsung Moment for $99.99 while the HTC Hero retails for $149.99. The upgrades are forecasted to be available by the end [...]

Hot on the heels of the speculation that the Motorola CLIQ would be getting Android 2.1 next month, HTC has announced that one of their flagship devices, the HTC Hero, will too be getting the 2.1 treatment next month. If you’re a loyal reader, you probably already know that HTC has been cookin’ this update [...]

Some of you might be familiar with Lego’s Mindstorms collection when allows Lego-maniacs the ability to create programmable robots. A Swedish tech company ENEA has created an App for the HTC Hero to control Lego Mindstorms creations. Many Mindstorms can be controlled via Bluetooth, but this one uses Wi-Fi due to the Android …