Best Browser for any andriod phone!

Secondly, you can set any music you have stored in your memory card as your ringtone. You have to purchase the music but not the action of putting music as ringtone. If not any music in your memory card can become a ringtone.

Editing songs through HERO is not possible. I’m not sure if such an application is available in Android market. You can search in it if you need. If not you can choose to edit music through your computer using softwares like Audacity to help trim the music portion you prefer, then put that edited song of yours in the memory card and set it as the ringtone in HERO.

Hope this helps!

Most apps allow you to do chatting across msn, yahoo messenger, facebook etc.

I would recommend Meebo or Ebuddy.

Just go to the Market and search for this names and that would do!

Hope this helps!

I’m currently using HTC Magic after getting a SENSE upgrade provided free by HTC. I assume that with the similar specs, differences between Hero and Magic shouldn’t be great, especially when it comes to apps.

I’m having difficulty watching embedded youtube videos or youtube videos on the desktop site (not Touch or Mobile mode) in high quality.

The HTC flash player is activated for playing of videos but that itself does not allow high quality video. I’m wondering if there’s anything I can do to rectify this.

Do you also experience something similar?

Thanks a great deal Chris!

2. in here, you stated i could take a song on my media player and set it as a ringtone. i just want to be clear and ask how i would do that? are you saying i dont actually have to purchase ringtones? is there a way i could edit the song, so when my phone rang, it would play at a certain part?

great review. answering my questions would be greatly appreciated!

Enter the HERO …

My heart is all a twitter and anxiously awaiting Oct 11 … hoping to learn all i can about android before then … so i can get my little hands dirty!! Share your review with me at http://www.HTC-Hero.com a site for HTC Hero fans.

http://www.slashgear.com/sprint-htc-hero-review-0559083/

As for the forums, everyone over there comes from different stages of proficiency, so don’t worry if you’re having to secretly text your godson for advice! We all learn the same way, after all :)

Chris

Will download beebplayer (when I can get market to work lol!) and Gmail sounds like the way forward, as you say better for Andriod; and I’ll look into IMAP as that looks promising.

Am getting myself to the Android forums; it’s just so much more complicated; perhaps my six year old god son can “fix” all of this for me…?

Best wishes

Peter

It sounds like you’re trying to visit iPlayer via the Hero’s browser; a much easier way is to download the beebPlayer app from the Android Market. It’s free and works over both WiFi and 3G connections, and offers the same access to the BBC’s online archives as their desktop version does, but in a much more mobile-friendly way.

As for email, you’ll have issues if you’re downloading your messages to your home computer; there’s no straightforward way to sync them with the Hero (at least not without third party software, and if there is such a title then I’m not sure what it is). An alternative would be to set your home computer to leave the email on the server and just download a copy; then the mail would always be online ready for the Hero to check too. You could keep doing that with POP. However, it depends on how much server space for messages your ISP provides.

Gmail is certainly a more streamlined way of dealing with email on the Android platform, and while it’s not quite true “push” it’s better than what you’re using now. You could also set it to allow POP email access, so Outlook could continue to download a local copy for your computer; alternatively there’s IMAP, which is better than POP in that it maintains read-status of messages (e.g. if you read a message on your Hero then the message is marked as read both on Gmail’s online interface and, as long as you’re using IMAP in Outlook (and not POP) on your home computer too.

There’s plenty more help – and cleverer people than me who can guide you – over at the AndroidCommunity.com forums :)

Chris

I got my here in July, and found a lot of it “made sense” I discovered a lot of the features as I was going along. Two questions.

1. BBC iplayer; I can’t get this to work; I’ve checked other discussion on Android sites, and they suggested it’s not ready yet; usually HTC Real Player recognises stuff and launches immediately, but the bbc site directed me to download a player; and given that I’m not very “tecchy” didn’t want to download “the wrong thing” (suggested different players for a linux platform)

2. Email; HELP! ;) My email goes via POP3 to my home computer in Outlook; I’ve set up my HTC to receive email – and it remains on server, so that when at home it goes to my outlook. I can’t find a way of synching via outlook to my hero; and asked HTC and they said it’s not available yet. The answer may lie in “gmail” or similar – but I’m not sure whether to “stick” with my current set up (not ideal) or change over to gmail – if that will sych automatically with push (I only half understand what I’m writing here btw!)

Otherwise, I LOVE MY HERO, I seem to discover new things daily, which is pleasing; although agree that the same views for web browsing should be there for google maps; I’d go further and say it should for Quickoffice too…

Cheers

Peter

In the case with the carriers here in the States, you would need to set up the APN on the phone, to make sure that you are able to receive MMS. It’s a simple set up, as long as you have the settings, which you can probably get from your particular carrier. And, it’s super easy to set up on the Hero.

There is a way to change the layout of the portrait keyboard, to look like the standard keypad on a phone. If you have the phone in portrait mode, press the small “gear” at the bottom left of the keyboard. Once there, touch the first option: “Keyboard Types”. You’ll see options appear, where Phone Keypad is the second one. Just go ahead and touch there, and then the next time you open up the keyboard (in portrait mode) it will be the phone keypad.

Hope this helps.

it would help me soo much !

The Hero hasn’t shown any problems switching between WiFi and 3G.

I don’t know offhand of any apps that will do it, but you could head over to AndroidCommunity.com and check out the forum there – they have lots of good advice.

Thanks

The one thing I cannot find out is whether the Hero/Android can data-thether over bluetooth? Anyone able to do so?

Great Article :-)

For those concerned about ‘lag’ then I can reassure them that there really isnt a problem here.

Had mine for a week now and its really smooth, in all my critical tests too..

Some of the features like you say waiting to be found but this adds to the units mystery as I have found there are a few ways to perform tasks. Great!!!

It has helped me no-end and I use it for work & play. Certaily gives the iPhone a BIG run for its money and with the open source android (loads of FREE Apps!!!) there really was only one choice for me.

A++ from me, well done HTC

Tino