The much awaited Sprint HTC Hero Android phone is now available in india. HTC has also announced price of HTC Hero in india. Read ahead to know Sprint HTC Hero’s Specs and how HTC Hero will affect indian market after knowing price details.
The HTC Hero which is also known as T- Mobile G2 touch in the UK, Germany, Austria, Croatia, The Netherlands, and Hungary is known as Era G2 Touch in Poland. It is a part of the A series Android phone manufactured by HTC Corporation. It is HTC’s third handset to be powered by the android operating system.
After a prolonged wait the Sprint HTC Hero has finally arrived in India. Apart from its launch yet another exciting news for HTC Hero smartphone lovers is that the Indian customers are offered 100Mb free data service for an initial period of six months from the date of purchase. Since this offer is provided by the Airtel network, Airtel users are on an advantage here. They get a free data download of about 100Mb per month for six months. Airtel also offers its customers additional utilities that include applications like Portfolio Manager, Hello Tune Manager, Weather Channel, Mobshare, In-mobile search and City Search on the HTC Hero.
Sprint HTC Hero Price in India
The current operating price of the HTC Hero in the Indian market is Rs.34,600/- in Maharashtra and Rs.31,990/- in the rest of India. The android phone is available in all leading and authorized outlets of HTC across the country. The HTC Hero has the signature curve at the lower end and has a sleek and stylish body that measures 4.4 inch in length, 2.2 inch in breadth and 0.5 inch in width. Moreover, it features a 3.2 inch HVGA (Half Video Graphics Array) touch screen with an anti fingerprint screen coating.
Other significant focal points of the smartphone is the GPS, a digital compass, gravity sensor, a 5 megapixel camera, a 3.5mm audio jack and a microSD expansion slot. It also has a search button committed to allow more contextual search that not only includes looking through the contact lists or emails but also Twitter and other areas of the device. It is available in seven different color styles including black, white, yellow, pink, gold, red and turquoise. The web browser includes Flash support and multi-touch. E-mail support includes IMAP4, POP3 and Microsoft Exchange Server.
Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India has announced that fully customized user interface called HTC Sense is to be introduced with the HTC Hero. The new Sense UI technology allows the customization of the device according to the customer’s needs and gives them more access to all the information at a glance via features like customized profiles, condensed view of all communications with a specific contact whether in the form of e-mail or text messages or multimedia messages, Facebook status updates and so on.
Specifications of HTC India Hero Android Phone :
- Screen resolution: 320 x 480
- Input devices: Multi-touch Touchscreen with lipophobic coating, trackball
- GSM Version has teflon phone cover (White); CDMA Version has grey-rubber cover
- Battery: 1350 mAh (GSM edition); 1500 mAh (CDMA edition)
- Talk time: 470 minutes to 420 minutes
- Standby time: 440 hours to 750 hours
- Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz ARM processor
- RAM: 288 MB
- ROM: 512 MB
- Operating system: Android 1.5 and HTC Sense
- Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR & A2DP
- HTC ExtUSB (Mini-B USB backwards compatible)
- Accelerometer
- Supports MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, MIDI and Windows Media Audio 9 music formats and MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and Windows Media Video 9 video formats.
