I missed this one...
The Hero is OK, but it's very old hardware. Seriously. Don't. It's similar
to the G1, with a little more ram & flash. When I got my Nexus One, it felt
like "Aaaah, *thats* what a phone is supposed to feel like".
It's kinda sick to have 512MB of RAM and a 1Ghz processor with a large
cache, but ... yeah. It works really well for a java-based OS. Android 2.1
is *nearly* ready - the betas I'm playing with are pretty stable now. That
likely means a bunch of companies are going to start releasing new phones as
soon as it's done.
It's also worth mentioning that the Hero isn't an open phone - you can't
flash your own OS to it. You can with a G1Dev and a NexusOne, and some Droid
phones.
John
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