by Sascha Segan 06.24.09
The first great Android phone may have finally arrived. The HTC Hero, announced Wednesday, breaks free of the dull Google-centric Android interface to deliver a fresh, smooth, sleek new way of staying in touch with people. HTC cribbed many of their competitors' best ideas and added some of their own, making the Hero a phone that may provide strong competition to the iPhone 3G S and Palm Pre. The Hero provides "a mobile experience that basically doesn't feel like you have to think, and is second nature," HTC America vice president Jason Mackenzie said. HTC rewrote almost all of the built-in Android apps around a new philosophy called Sense, which seems to be an expansion of the "people-centric" tack the company took at the Mobile World Congress back in February. Sense means a lot of personalization (you can choose between 10 clock designs for your phone), a heavy focus on contact integration (flipping easily between contact cards and all the e-mails you've received from a person, for instance) and the occasional cute, unexpected touch. When you open up the Weather app and it's raining, raindrops appear on your screen and are then wiped away by a virtual windshield wiper.
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