HTC’s roadmap leaks, Pocket-Lint award winners, and Nokia closes its London flagship
This week, we talk with the guys from London about HTC's phones slated to hit next year, plus Pocket-Lint's awards, and Nokia looks to be closing its Regent street flagship store... is it a sign of the economy, Nokia's health, or both? We ask Dan Sung and Duncan Geere from the site.
New HTC Hero firmware rolls out and improves Sense UI experience
HTC has released a firmware update for its flagship Android phone running its highly-touted Sense UI. Engadget Mobile reports that while no new features have been noticed yet, the faster speed is much appreciated given it's been the Achilles heel of the otherwise great phone. The official build number is 2.73.405.5 and is expected to be available on HTC's site very soon.
T-Mobile Unveils HTC Touch Pro 2 for $349.99
T-Mobile released the HTC Touch Pro 2 today, priced high at $349.99. Compared to its predecessor, the Touch Pro, the new phone adds a widescreen tiltable display, UI improvements and enhancements for conference calls. On the downside, the phone doesn't have as much memory as some would have liked, and the camera is relatively poor, but T-Mobile users itching for a Windows Mobile device that isn't two years old, like the Wing, might want to take a peek.
MyTouch 3G launches to collective “Meh…”
T-Mobile gathered together a bunch of journalists to look at its latest device, the MyTouch3G. We stopped by to take a look at the device, and see what people think of it.
HTC Hero: Can the Superphone compete?
HTC unveiled its latest smartphone, and it's a doozy. The HTC Hero packs in everything a smartphone lover could dream of, except the handset won't land on American shores till the fall. Now that we've got a more mature market for smartphones, can HTC compete? We talk to Joel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets, and Seth Porges of Popular Mechanics about the situation.
Joel thinks the Hero doesn't have to be the best phone in America, it really just needs to be the best phone for its American carrier, whoever that may end up being. With the wacky smartphone situation, many people aren't willing to switch to the iPhone simply because they'll have to go to AT&T, so when the Hero ends up hitting America, it'll just need to be the best in breed for its anticipated carrier.
Seth, who had some chance to play with the phone a few days ago, thinks it's a winner at first glance. Seth also thinks, like many of our previous guests, that smartphone's biggest asset is applications, and seeing how the Android marketplace, and for that matter the Palm App Catalog, hasn't fully developed just yet, it's hard to see how these platforms will play out.
What's your take? Are you excited about the device, or is it just another phone for you? What would make you stop obsessing about the iPhone for a few minutes, and take a liking to the Hero? Sound off in the comments.
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HTC Hero unveiled, supports Flash out-of-the-box
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HTC, the company best known for making the best Windows Mobile smartphones year after year, has unveiled its latest Android-powered unit called the Hero, which in addition to being a looker, supports Adobe Flash from its inception, according to Engadget. Hitting Europe next month, Asia later in 2009, and North America even later in 2009, the device has a 3.5mm audio jack, five megapixel auto-focusing camera, GPS, WiFi and all the other goodies you'd expect from a best-in-class HTC device.