HTC A6262 Unlocked Phone with Android OS--International Version with No Warranty (Black)

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B002L7DQF6
• Item model number: A6262BKEU
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,571 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

HTC Hero is our first phone to embody HTC Sense - an intuitive, seamless experience built upon three fundamental principles - make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected. With HTC Hero, personalization reaches a level never before possible. Rather than burying important content under layers of menus, the HTC Hero lets you put it at glance view, with a selection of widgets that can be placed right on the home screen. The widgets themselves can be personalized with a variety of designs and sizes that best match your personality. With Scenes, a new profile feature, HTC Hero becomes multiple phones in one. Create and switch between Scenes that reflect different moments in your life. Your Hero becomes a weekend phone that helps you relax with your choice of tunes, catch up with your favorite friends and capture some memories with HTC Footprints. And when you go on a trip, your phone becomes your personal guide and gives you instant access to local time, weather and maps. Today, staying in touch with the people in your life means managing a variety of communication channels and applications ranging from phone calls and emails to Facebook updates. HTC Hero makes staying close as simple as turning to your friend and saying hello. When you view people, you see the different ways to get in touch, you also see all your interactions like emails sent to your personal and work accounts. You can even check for social network updates and event notices as well as see the latest pictures your friends uploaded to popular photo sharing sites. Many of the most memorable moments in your life are experienced, not explained. Even basic functions like the dialer will pleasantly surprise you on the HTC Hero. You can find a person by dialing their phone number or simply by dialing the first few letters of their name. With HTC Hero, you can look at things through different perspectives.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wise purchase, August 21, 2009

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M. Prewett (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HTC A6262 Unlocked Phone with Android OS--International Version with No Warranty (Black) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I had purchase this phone for usage on AT&T after watching a video review detailing some of the features of the HTC Hero. I had recently lost my Samsung Blackjack II, and was in need of a new smartphone.

PROS: Android operating system is fantastic, world's better than Windows Mobile is currently or may ever be. One thing that surprised me was that my contacts sync up with Facebook (and flicker if I had an account), something that only the Palm Pre is supposed to do. The new Sense feature is incredible, although I never owned an android phone before, so I really can't tell the difference. Apparantly it allows me to fully customize the screen anyway I want too, which is very nice so that the phone can be exactly how I want it, nothing more, nothing less.

Predictive keyboard. The phone's QWERTY keyboard is on screen, and sports a nice predictive keyboard that learns what you want to say, to make texting or e-mailing that much easier.

5 MP camera. The camera on this phone is the best I've seen, and working at a retail store, its equivalent to only one other phone that we carry.

WiFi turned out to be a very nice feature because of a con you will read momentarily. You can connect to any wifi (as long as you have the security code for the blocked wifi centers) and use that as your phones internet, allowing you faster speeds than any cellphone carrier's 3G service.

CONS: This phone was never slated to be available on any American phone network. While the Hero supports certain 3G bands worldwide, unfortunately it does not support the 3G band for AT&T. The phone STILL WORKS with AT&T, but you are stuck with Edge data service.

No button keyboard. This may not matter as much as I originally thought it would. I always preferred actual buttons to touch screen but the predictive keyboard is a certainly nice feature that I may get used too.

OTHER:

At the time I purchased the phone, there is a weird bug that if you do not sign in or create a google account when you are doing the first time startup wizard, the phone will not let you set up the Google account unless you do a factory reset. I am sure Google and HTC are working on a fix for that, and its only a minor annoyance, thankfully I hadn't installed anything important before I came to that realization.

OVERALL: This phone is something I would recommend to anyone willing to pay for it, as it is certainly the best phone I have ever owned.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Phone but 3G does not work, September 30, 2009

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R. Patel "Gadget Wiz" (G Rapids, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HTC A6262 Unlocked Phone with Android OS--International Version with No Warranty (Black) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

Played around with this phone for a bit now. Its a decent phone overall but yes it is little laggy. Be very carefully and aware of the fact that this handset does not work on the 3G networks. It is 3G compatible and a world phone, but GSM US carriers like T Mobile or ATT use a different frequency for data which is the GSM 1700 mhz band I think. Whatever the Freq, its not compatible for 3G data in US. Europe and Asia it will work fine on 3G but not in the US. Otherwise overall very well equiped, but not worth [...] dollars when the iPhone with 16GB unlocked can be got for about 400-500 and 32 GB for 500-600 unlocked.
Many apps are available for the phone, great interface, very user friendly, shoots good pics and decent video, can use mp3s as ringtones which is fantastic. Visual voicemail if supported by carrier, g sensors, GPS is accurate, search engine features are great too. Finds anything in the neighborhood, coffee shops, hotels, restaurants etc.
All in all decent phone but not at [...] bucks

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great phone at any price...., November 21, 2009

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C. E. Allen "shopper" (Philadelphia, Pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HTC A6262 Unlocked Phone with Android OS--International Version with No Warranty (Black) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I received my "Hero" phone, Brown, [the unlocked international verison] about two weeks ago, and have been hard-pressed to put it down. After some conflicting information by a couple of [well-meaning] but under-knowledged tech-support staffer from T-mobile, I had the patience to hang-in-there and finally got some one who really knew how to troubleshoot. She got me up and running on the "EDGE" network in a flash [which was the only thing I had trouble configuring]. Everything else loaded flawlessly. Moreover, She was a real professional, and I could not thank her enough for her help.

The first thing I didn't noticed, or witness [what many were complaining about] was its, so-called, "noticable Lag". No "lag" here, the andriod plateform worked as promised with speeds comparable to home networks or better. The UI Sense screen [though very sensitive] can be tailored to accommodate large finger and for those not use to "touch" typing. It is light-weight and comfortable in the hand, and has a good feel when carried inside a suit jacket or pants pocket. Naviagating through the various screens and apps took some getting use too, but was fairly simple once you got the hang of it. The Andriod Market Place is filled with free Apps that are easily downloaded and installed. No radio with the Hero- not a problem, there's an App for that. Want some really good games- there's an App for that, too. Not only was the Android Market Place filled with Apps, the online store is filled with them as well. So don't be fooled by App mania, or lack-thereof.

The WiFi was a breeze to configure, whether home or away, and the 5 pixel camera takes some stunning pictures. Its style is futuristic and cleverly constructed, [chin design and flat profile] gives it that eye-catching look that people notice. "That's not, The iPhone"? Yeah, I know, will be your response with a broad grin. The sound quality is clear with very little background noise, and when the 3.5 mm, ear-buds are in, you don't need a lot of volume. Also, the Bluetooth discovery/marriage to my Car's sound system was a snap to setup. It's the knid of phone where you wouldn't want an ear-piece Bluetooth because its so hand-friendly and stylish, you'd want to hold it. Can't say that about many hand-held devices. One other cool thing, I found the phones lockout feature especially nice. Forget about trying to remember the lockout code. What we have here is basically a finger design sweep where you trace an outline on the screen to gain access. Now how clever is that. Try cracking that, hackers. There are so many good feature associated with this phone, it would take far too much time trying to list them all individually. Basically, its a dream to operate.

Yes, it is a little pricey, no doubt about it. But, if you want a superior phone on a plateform suited to today's needs, with enough umph to get the job done, then the Hero should be looked into and taken seriously. There are many phones to choose from, with some awesome capabilities, but dollar for dollar, unlocked, and without the commitments you couldn't do better. I recommend it wholdheartedly.