HTC Hero (CDMA)
Couple of quick questions
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I currently have a CrackBerry Curve 8330 and there are only three pending phones that could get me off it; the Samsung Instinct HD, BlackBerry Storm 2 if Sprint gets it, and the HTC Hero. I know the Storm 2 & the Instinct HD will give you a full QWERTY keyboard if you tip the phone on the side (based on the Instinct & Instinct S30 and the Storm). Does the Hero have the same functionality? I don't think I could really function without a QWERTY keyboard. I have used T9 before (Sanyo 200, 8200 & Katana DLX) as well as full QWERTY (my Curve 8330 & a HPPC6700 aka HTC Apache) and I definately prefer the QWERTY keyboard. Next, will the phone be able to run apps from the micro SD card? 133MB of RAM is not all that much (the Storm 2 will...
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I currently have a CrackBerry Curve 8330 and there are only three pending phones that could get me off it; the Samsung Instinct HD, BlackBerry Storm 2 if Sprint gets it, and the HTC Hero. I know the Storm 2 & the Instinct HD will give you a full QWERTY keyboard if you tip the phone on the side (based on the Instinct & Instinct S30 and the Storm). Does the Hero have the same functionality? I don't think I could really function without a QWERTY keyboard. I have used T9 before (Sanyo 200, 8200 & Katana DLX) as well as full QWERTY (my Curve 8330 & a HPPC6700 aka HTC Apache) and I definately prefer the QWERTY keyboard. Next, will the phone be able to run apps from the micro SD card? 133MB of RAM is not all that much (the Storm 2 will...
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1) The phone does not have a hardware QWERTY keyboard, if that's what you're asking. There is an onscreen QWERTY keyboard, however, and if you turn the phone on its side you can use it in landscape mode. While it's nice to have a hardware keyboard, it also makes the phone bulkier and heavier, and learning to type on an onscreen keyboard isn't all that bad.
2) As of right now, it looks like you will not be able to install applications and run them from the SD card. This is a limitation of the Android OS and not something specific to the Hero. There are supposedly ways to do this manually but it involves a great amount of effort on the user's part and is quite complicated. I think that the quoted space (133 MB) is all of the free spa...
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2) As of right now, it looks like you will not be able to install applications and run them from the SD card. This is a limitation of the Android OS and not something specific to the Hero. There are supposedly ways to do this manually but it involves a great amount of effort on the user's part and is quite complicated. I think that the quoted space (133 MB) is all of the free spa...
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Actually, the hero is running apps off of the micro sd card. I dont believe the phone is even giving me the option to do otherwise, but all apps i have been downloading are installing directly to micro
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If this is true, this is great news. It's one of the things that slightly worried me about the Hero.
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