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Android 2.1 for Hero??

kronium said:
I think you may be wrong because the biggest improvement to the Hero's successor could very well be 4G data. That's the only selling point it would need. :D
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HTC can make all the 4G handsets they want, but they are worthless w/o the networks to run them on. Searching, I cant find any solid information about 4G carrier availability, and even the slight mentions say that it is very small and targeted coverage. When 3G coverage is as light as it is with some carriers, 4G would be horrible option in the near future for a phone. Unless someone can point me to more up to date information on 4g availability. (The most recent I can find is between Jan & Sept 09, and all that says is "will be rolling out in the future".
 
Why doesn't anyone who lives in an area with 4G coverage or who knows about an area with 4G coverage or has a cousin who came from an area with 4G coverage be sure to make a post about it in this thread, which by the way is entitled Android 2.1 for Hero??

Or alternatively, anyone interested in a full enumeration of all the areas with 4G coverage could go to this freely available Sprint site. ;)
 
BrianR said:
Just a little clarification: technology is not "catching up with Apple". Apple has always been BEHIND in that, as your MMS comments point out. Tons of phones, going back to 2003 and even earlier, were far more capable than the iPhone. When the iPhone came out, it was the FIRST OF IT'S TYPE. It failed miserably at many BASIC functions, but it was the first "app phone" and the first with multi-touch touchscreen.
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I have to disagree. The iPhone was so ahead of itself, software update 3.0 largely works on even the original iPhone. Things like MMS weren't important to Apple's strategy for the iPhone, and it obviously worked. I don't think that the iPhone's lack of MMS was a sign that it was 'technologically backward' so much as Apple didn't care about MMS then. The original phone's hardware and software was groundbreaking, and still is. No one can match that phone's touch screen, except maybe for the Pre.

I owned an iPhone 3G for 1 year, and gave it up for the Pre, then Hero because of AT&T's horrible network. If the iPhone multitasked, it would be perfect... but I understand why it doesn't after experiencing the lagginess it brings on my Hero at times.

As for an on-topic point of interest, the Droid Eris is to be getting a software update, to 2.x I assume, in Q1 2010. I would assume the Sprint Hero will get it when the Eris does, as they are virtual CDMA 1.5 Android w/ Sense twins. When the GSM Hero gets 2.0, I doubt the CDMA one will. They're just too different.

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wraithevo said:
Then I guess I am the biggest traitor since I had a 16 gig 3G and then a 32 gig 3GS and I will honestly say that the HTC Hero matches up to those phones and then some. For the iPhone to be even close as far as what each phone can do it would have to be jailbroken.

Now let the haters speak. LOL
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Me too. I gave up my iPhone for the Hero and i love it.
 
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