The HTC Hero has been out for a while now, I've played around with it before and to be frank wasn't THAT overly impressed with it. But since I played around with it, it's feasted on some Cupcake and the difference in speed is easily noticeable.
So with this 3Mobilebuzz loan unit I'll try and give it a proper review and actually make the effort to post my experience. I'm not going to do an unboxing or anything like that, there are thousands out there for you to find and mine won't have any surprises installed either.
Having had the handset for a day roughly and using it for half a day I can say getting used to having no physical buttons to type is (as I expected) going to be a transitional period I won't want to experience again. The capacitive screen and keyboard layout are fine, getting used to typing on it is a different story. I'm sure over time I'll get used to it, but for now I wish I had something like voice to text or a physical keyboard.
What has been a surprise is the battery performance of the device. I'd say it's been pretty heavy usage on it throughout the day, it always is when friends all around want to play with it. But Approximately 2.5 hours of constant Youtube streaming via 3G, GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi on all the time and it's lasted around 8 hours. That's not counting when I've been using it whilst on charge to install apps, setup my accounts and generally playing around with it.
The camera I have to say has been the biggest disappointment, I expect a much better result from something boasting 5 Mega Pixels with autofocus and such. Having no flash doesn't help it's cause but even in daylight it's slow and pretty awkward to use. Especially considering what a 5 Mega Pixel camera can achieve with the right sensors and hardware this has to be the major downfall of the Hero.
One things for sure, this won't be taking any "stonkingly" good pictures.
Expect more in the coming days. For the moment the Hero is still a Hero (overall.)
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