HTC Hero with Google Phone Sprint

Posted by Smartphone Review on February 8, 2010

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Love it.
I initially had gone for Blackberry’s new 8350 Curve after switching from an iPhone. I made the switch because Sprint is the only service with repeaters in our hospital and so is the only service readily available throughout. The new Curve is a functional, cost-effective phone but I genuinely missed the ability to read webpages as they are and the features of a touchscreen in general. I read of the battery issues with the HTC Hero but was convinced that if I avoid the native messenging system that it would be fine and that has turned out to be the case. I can easily use the phone all day on one charge–no problem.

The iPhone compared to this device is much more simplified–the same patterns of button pushing get you wherever you want on the iPhone. That said, the Hero outdoes the iPhone in its adaptability, navigation, camera, multi-tasking and built-in applications. I did not expect that I would be as impressed as I am with this device but it’s snappy, has great screen resolution and is just so intuitive that even though it’s more complex than the iPhone–you’ll be flying through it in no time.

4 Stars Happy I switched
I’ve had this phone for one week. Previously had a plain (uh, non-smart?) cellphone and no data plan — upgrading to this phone and a data plan was rather impulsive, but I’ve no regrets. It took several days of working with the phone to get comfortable — changing keyboards from QWERTY to Compact QWERTY was the single most important change — couldn’t type worth a darn with regular QWERTY even after calibrating it and spending hours trying to become accurate. Compact QWERTY has larger ‘buttons’ so most keys have two letters (as well as other characters, too) — bottom line: I’m able to type w/o too much backspacing (regular QWERTY I swear I had to hit backspace as often as any other ‘key’) Anyway, compact QWERTY saved the phone from being returned.

Main drawback so far is battery life. An App Killer (such as Advanced Task Killer free) is pretty much a necessity to avoid draining battery any more than necessary. I have to charge Hero daily (though that’s probably because I’m still playing with it so much), but it’s worth it to me because of the functionality. Also, sometimes it takes a little persistance to get phone/app to respond to a touchscreen press (Pandora can be sluggish in this regard.)

If I had needed to do extensive rather than occasional text entry, this phone would not have worked out for me. However, for my usage, I’m quite pleased with HTC Hero.

4 Stars love my phone
i’ve had my phone for about 5 months now. i bought it within the first two weeks of its release. i still really love it. it’s actually been transformative in my daily life.

this is my first smartphone, so i don’t have much to compare it with. but i was looking for a few things in my phone.

first, i wanted to be able to develop apps for it without having to buy a mac or pay some fee. so android was pretty much it. secondly, i didn’t want to be on the ATT network since i felt that it was probably getting slammed by all of the iphone usage. i’d heard too many people complain about poor service especially at large events.

anyway, i read reviews about this product prior to purchasing it, and i haven’t found any of the common problems to really bother me that much. typing was something that people complained about, and that hasn’t affected my usage. although honestly, i don’t type too much on it. just a few short messages a day. some had complained about lag time in screen response, but i have not noticed any problems. the screen is very responsive maybe once a day or so, it gets a little slow, but nothing that i get frustrated over.

it’s a great size, very slim.

takes great pictures.

and i’ve never had any service issues with it.

the one thing that i think could be improved is the battery life. but even that is managable.

i just plug it in to my computer for maybe an hour or so during the day, and charge it at night when i sleep, and it’s been fine.

all in all, it’s a great device.

i’m definitely happy with my purchase.

additionally, the sprint monthly service contract is so cheap. i have 450 min/mo, with unlimited data, unlimited mobile to mobile (any carrier not just sprint), and nights/weekends start at 7, for 69.99. can’t beat the price.

2 Stars sprint htc hero suck, its not for people without patience.
coming from using blackberries, storm and iphone user and now am using sprint Htc touch pro 2. first of all the screen on the phone is horrible comparing to the new blackberries and other phones ive used, Ive always purchased expensive phones and htc hero is terribly slow and it keeps freezing all the time, some time have to do a battery pull, htc sense its very beautiful and useful but the phone processor cant handle it. with the right hardware its a winner, htc is known for making operating system easier for the user,i like android alot i think androids kicks iphones ass because of the personalization it offers and android look more today then the iphone operating system . iphone as a bunch of icons on a black background its a damn shame because iphone doesnt deserve all the sucess it as compared to android and web OS. i get great service form sprint here in boston, and all the features sprint offers is great gps,tv,unlimited data,text and video for 69.99 is great. if the phone had a faster processor it would be a winner. gave the phone to my little pro because am 20 and if your like me like everything to be on point and fast than the htc hero is not for you.

only giving 2 stars because of htc sense makes android look grown.

5 Stars Do not build deslike toward the phone based on the Sprint Store
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