So I’ve been running the Floyo 1.1.9 ROM on my HTC Hero for a week now and haven’t had any major problems, it’s been great. It’s an Android 2.2 (Froyo) ROM based on the CyanogenMod 6 ROM. If you want to download it, visit this thread on XDA Developers. For another guide on getting Froyo [...]
Telstra announced today that they will begin selling the HTC Wildfire in August. No pricing details other than ‘cheaper than the HTC Desire which makes sense as the specs aren’t as good as the Desire. This is probably a good sweet spot for people who want an Android powered smartphone but aren’t too fussed on [...]
According to the HTC Twitter account (@htc) Vodafone will be releasing the HTC Legend on 3rd June and it will also be available on Three (but no date announced for that). Good news for the Aussie market. The HTC Legend is kind of the HTC Hero 2 but sadly will only have a 600Mhz CPU [...]
Finally the official Android 2.1 ROM has been released for the HTC Hero – albeit for the Sprint Hero only (the US CDMA version). It can’t be long now until they release the official ROM for the GSM version of the Hero surely? More info here: http://www.htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/
After all my bitching about HTC not bringing out an official Android 2.1 ROM I finally bit the bullet and installed a custom ROM. Check out HTC Hero ROMs for a list of some of the available ones, or the excellent XDA Developers Wiki – HTC Hero section. I had already rooted my phone long [...]
I bought an HTC Hero (GSM) early November 2009. I love the phone, it’s been good to me. But now it’s getting frustrating that I’m stuck on version 1.5 of the Android OS when phones are being released with 2.1. One of the reasons that I bought an Android based phone was that I figured [...]