HTC Hero unboxing video and Sense UI overview

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 16th 2009 6 Comments

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It feels like we’ve been waiting ages for the HTC Hero to arrive, but the company’s third – and perhaps most exciting – Android smartphone is finally on the SlashGear test-bench. Packed with a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel autofocus camera and of course HTC’s Sense, you can see the full video unboxing and a UI overview after the cut.

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HTC Sense takes the standard Android UI and gives it a big shot of extra widgetty usability. The options to fill up the freshly-widened homescreen panes are now overflowing with Twitter, Facebook, mail and other social networking widgets, plus there’s a new on-screen keyboard and other enhancements.

We’re also excited by the prospect of Flash support in the browser, a first for the Android platform, and will be seeing what impact all of this new graphical lushness has on battery life. The full review will be up soon; for now, enjoy the unboxing video and these hands-on photos.

HTC Hero unboxing and Sense UI overview:

[via Android Community]

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6 Responses to “HTC Hero unboxing video and Sense UI overview”

genie4today July 16, 2009

You’re so lucky! I can’t wait to get my Hero. Sigh…
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- Vincent Nguyen July 16, 2009
  
  When are you getting yours in?
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ozmoi July 17, 2009

am so seriously getting this one!!! but not sure when will be available in australia.
“sad face”
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Solozaur July 19, 2009

Excuse my maybe silly question but I see it has a capacitive touchscreen does that mean that it is as responsive to touch as the iPhone or is it more like a winmo model?
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- Chris Davies July 20, 2009
  
  The iPhone uses a capacative touchscreen, so yes, the Hero uses the same technology. WinMo touchscreens are usually resistive.
  
  And no, it’s not a silly question :)
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guyverunit July 21, 2009

i have an order in the us waiting for the phone so it can be filled and i can’t wait to get it. how did you get it directly from HTC? i looked all over there site when this was first announced and didn’t see anywhere you could buy it. or is it using your uber slashdot powers? LOL

anyway i can’t wait to get mine. at the moment i have my G1 running the HEro ROM and its pretty amazing, can’t wait for the real thing
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