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Remember the leaked screenshots of Android 2.1 complete with HTC Sense running on the esteemed Hero?  Well now you could recreate that yourself, thanks to a leaked Hero 2.1 Eclair ROM over at xda-developers.  The software is classed as alpha, which means you probably don’t want to necessarily trust your everyday Android handset with it; for instance, there’s no Google synchronization support right now.

There’s also no WiFi support, which could be a deal-breaker for many.  Fixes are apparently incoming – the sync problem has already been solved, it’s just not been rolled into a new ROM yet – and given the software has only been out for a matter of hours it’s very much early days.

HTC are tipped to be preparing this update – officially, of course – for a release around the end of 2009, bypassing Android 2.0 altogether.  More screenshots here; now is anyone brave enough to try this out themselves?

[via Twitter]