HTC HERO Review By PB

**elboriyorker** · October 15, 2009, 06:22 PM

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Originally posted by benmiller

I wonder if the dont include the delete all because you can manage the email from your gmail acount also if you had to do some serious cleaning up in it I think that would be the easier way to do it or grab a ITouch and piggy back off the wifi haha.

lol true i can do that..but they still should have a feature already built in...so i dont have to go else where and do it.

**elboriyorker** · October 15, 2009, 06:23 PM

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Originally posted by PHE-NOM

yeah, i think it looks better round. i havent felt it yet, but i think it looks way better. it looks more high-end, lol. i'll be joining you hopefully soon too. gonna be doing some android themes hopefully also.

well. for me i might just do my favorite wallpaper the grunge look...

**D/\SH** · October 15, 2009, 07:16 PM

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cool thanks for the review pb, how is the speaker on the beast? im gonna get it when it ocmes out early 2010 for verizon..... are all the other basic features good on the device like earpiece, call quality, build sturdyness (doesnt feel cheap), etc

**elboriyorker** · October 15, 2009, 07:21 PM

Re: HTC HERO Review By PB

Originally posted by D/\SH

cool thanks for the review pb, how is the speaker on the beast? im gonna get it when it ocmes out early 2010 for verizon..... are all the other basic features good on the device like earpiece, call quality, build sturdyness (doesnt feel cheap), etc

yea bro the speakers are great, not awesome but i can hear my favorite music.Its funny even tho i can use the 3.5 ear piece jack..but i'm using my pro ear piece and works good and i can use it to make calls hahahah...call quality is great i was on the phone with mom for almost 2 hours and dont have any issues at all, it's loud and clear...the structure looks fine and feels fine but because of my clumsiness i'll get a hard case protector for it.sprint got that rubber thing but i dont like the way it looks.

**D/\SH** · October 15, 2009, 07:29 PM

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Originally posted by phillyfinest369

yea bro the speakers are great, not awesome but i can hear my favorite music.Its funny even tho i can use the 3.5 ear piece jack..but i'm using my pro ear piece and works good and i can use it to make calls hahahah...call quality is great i was on the phone with mom for almost 2 hours and dont have any issues at all, it's loud and clear...the structure looks fine and feels fine but because of my clumsiness i'll get a hard case protector for it.sprint got that rubber thing but i dont like the way it looks.

sweet and no one really has touched on battery life how is that looking?

**elboriyorker** · October 15, 2009, 07:35 PM

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Originally posted by D/\SH

sweet and no one really has touched on battery life how is that looking?

no complainants so far going on a day and a 1/2 and I'm on 70% minimal usage beside he 2 hour talk.

**forty01** · October 15, 2009, 10:33 PM

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I'm going to chime in here. I have only had a chance to play with for a couple of hours, but loving it w/o a doubt. I have my Mail2Web (ActiveSync) hooked up, so all my contacts and emails were accepted w/o a problem. I used the Google Calendar to sync my calendar, because it will keep all the labeling I have done. It doesn't have a true Delete All button, however if you are in the email, looking at all your emails. you can click on menu, then delete, and it will let you check whichever emails you want to delete in one quick action. So, actually it'll let you accomplish the goal with more control, so you can pick and choose. The keyboard has done better than I would have expected, sound quality is great and everything seems to work like it has a purpose. It's very satisfying when getting around with such ease. I was like PB at 1st, because of being a WM Junkie, you knew the insides and out of a WM device and it had a way you understood and were use to. Then you go to this other device and much is same concept, but still different, so took a second to understand the logic to it, but once you get going, it's smooth like butter ;) lol I really don't have anything negative to say. Good Luck for now and I'll update if anything else come along.

**elboriyorker** · October 15, 2009, 10:45 PM

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Originally posted by forty01

I'm going to chime in here. I have only had a chance to play with for a couple of hours, but loving it w/o a doubt. I have my Mail2Web (ActiveSync) hooked up, so all my contacts and emails were accepted w/o a problem. I used the Google Calendar to sync my calendar, because it will keep all the labeling I have done. It doesn't have a true Delete All button, however if you are in the email, looking at all your emails. you can click on menu, then delete, and it will let you check whichever emails you want to delete in one quick action. So, actually it'll let you accomplish the goal with more control, so you can pick and choose. The keyboard has done better than I would have expected, sound quality is great and everything seems to work like it has a purpose. It's very satisfying when getting around with such ease. I was like PB at 1st, because of being a WM Junkie, you knew the insides and out of a WM device and it had a way you understood and were use to. Then you go to this other device and much is same concept, but still different, so took a second to understand the logic to it, but once you get going, it's smooth like butter ;) lol I really don't have anything negative to say. Good Luck for now and I'll update if anything else come along.

yea eventually i'll get it...one more thing i forgot to mention as many of us like to sync our contact to a 3rd party software like pimbackup and the one i used mostly was myphone form MS i had issues syncing the phone to my desktop outlook so i can import all of my contact from there.but i was acting like a noob and forgot all about the fire wall hahhaahah i just wanted to bring this up just in case if anyone else goes thru a noob moment.....but i'm all good i have all my conatct and calendar....

**tlpalmer01** · October 16, 2009, 04:48 AM

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thanks for all the reviews i have to wait till march 2010 for my upgrade so i cant wait.........

**Mike20PR** · October 16, 2009, 05:59 AM

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Also i forgot to mention that the hero also has the same functions that webOS has with synergy by integrating your online accounts with contacts and such but MUCH better!l!! I mean i integrated my contacts with facebook and i can even see the status update and profile photo albums in the contact app!! I was freakin blown away

Also the camera pics dont show its full sharpness till you start zooming in. For a second i thought it was garbage till i saw that. Now WoW im so impressed. Maybe the full resolution is too sharp for a hvga screen..better to have too much than lack rite? Lol

**forty01** · October 16, 2009, 07:13 AM

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Originally posted by Mike20PR

Also i forgot to mention that the hero also has the same functions that webOS has with synergy by integrating your online accounts with contacts and such but MUCH better!l!! I mean i integrated my contacts with facebook and i can even see the status update and profile photo albums in the contact app!! I was freakin blown away

Also the camera pics dont show its full sharpness till you start zooming in. For a second i thought it was garbage till i saw that. Now WoW im so impressed. Maybe the full resolution is too sharp for a hvga screen..better to have too much than lack rite? Lol

You are exactly correct Mike. That's some of the info that lured me to making the switch.

Code:

http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/gallery.html

If you go to the link on HTC's site. Click on the link on the left that says HTC Sense (watch the video)... do that. It made me want one even more :)

**KJRain** · October 16, 2009, 02:56 PM

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Originally posted by phillyfinest369

ok it's spj time for a review.I've now have the HTC Hero for about 2 days,And to be honest i don't miss windows mobile. everything that i had on my pro is now on my hero..It was a bit confusing to how things work but i managed to learn the features and functions.And I'm very impressed.

There a few things i didn't like and hope android make adjustments.The web browsing is awesome, i like the clarity but its a bit slow for me when connecting or searching to any web site

For the life of me where the hell is the speaker button on the phone??? hahahaha The voice mail is off the hook i like the setup, and lastly android need to improve the email setup and the delete all button which this one don't have,I would have to delete each email one by one.

But overall i'm liking this device and it has everything i need t do no extra stuff...I'm glad i waited.

You can delete more than one e-mail at a time. You have go into your e-mails and click the menu button, tap delete and select the e-mails you want to delete and tap delete. Try it out.

P.S. I'm with you HTC hero is a great phone.

**elboriyorker** · October 16, 2009, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by KJRain

You can delete more than one e-mail at a time. You have go into your e-mails and click the menu button, tap delete and select the e-mails you want to delete and tap delete. Try it out.

P.S. I'm with you HTC hero is a great phone.

lol..yea i've seen that but i prefer the select all options.I'm just a lazy person doing 101 emails one by one is kinda a pain...lol

**Mike20PR** · October 16, 2009, 04:42 PM

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ok i found the first issue with the Hero and its a doozie.... there is a problem with text messages not working especially when memory is low and Android force closes processes to free up memory kills your ability to recieve text messages all together. Since i bought this phone i sent like 3 messages and recieved none. At first i thought nobody wrote to me till my GF told me that the indeed did and a few to be exact. This is not a small issue and needs to be addressed. Also, stay away from task killer apps in market cuz these also create this problem when it closes everything without exception... I uninstalled the task killer, rebooted and the problem remains, ima take it to sprint in a minute but, wow what a way to rub me the wrong direction...

there is another thread on this and it looks like to be a common problem that Sprint is prioritizing on...

Code:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=572134

**elboriyorker** · October 16, 2009, 04:51 PM

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Originally posted by Mike20PR

ok i found the first issue with the Hero and its a doozie.... there is a problem with text messages not working especially when memory is low and Android force closes processes to free up memory kills your ability to recieve text messages all together. Since i bought this phone i sent like 3 messages and recieved none. At first i thought nobody wrote to me till my GF told me that the indeed did and a few to be exact. This is not a small issue and needs to be addressed. Also, stay away from task killer apps in market cuz these also create this problem when it closes everything without exception... I uninstalled the task killer, rebooted and the problem remains, ima take it to sprint in a minute but, wow what a way to rub me the wrong direction...

there is another thread on this and it looks like to be a common problem that Sprint is prioritizing on...

Code:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=572134

wow didnt know about it..i was wondering because my oldest daughter text me about 2 or 3 a day checking up on me and since i got the phone i hardly got any ....wow going to look into this now...thanks for the heads up

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