With the introduction of the new HSPA+ network from TELUS, the new high-speed mobile network brings a slew of new handsets to Canada. One of those handsets is the much discussed HTC Hero (white/black)!
The HTC Hero, running Google’s Android, will be available on the new HSPA+ network from TELUS starting November 5 2009. This is great news for new/existing TELUS customers that have been waiting for the HTC Hero to hit Canada!
TELUS has posted the following details about the HTC Hero:
- See the applications that are most important to you at home or work, day or night with multiple profiles for 7 customizable home screens.
- Stay close with conversation history at a glance; phone logs, messages, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, IM and email updates are organized into a single view by contact.
- Experience applications integrated throughout your phone with the latest and greatest applications from the continuously growing Android™ Market.
The HTC Hero recently won the Phone of the Year award from T3 and now brings the Sense UI and Android 1.5 (Cupcake) to TELUS customers. The Hero will be available for $99.99 on a 3-year contracted voice and data plan.
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HTC Hero will be only available with telus
, as said on their website –> “To be available only from TELUS.”
Yeh but it's gonna be GSM
You know what that means! Root-ability 
@godofthesms … yeah its gsm…. at least.. but i hoped secretly that it would be offered by Rogers too… and some competition on the dataplan prices… it's nice to dream…..
ohh man now i wish i had not have gotten the HTC Magic from Rogers. FML lol
anyways this is kinda off topic but what ever happened to the Rogers Best App Contest for Android. Do you guys remember that? It was on facebook.
@ cyruscode Just root ur phone and install the Hero OS!
Hopefully this provides more impetus for Google and the carriers to get paid applications going with Telus now carrying Android as well as Rogers. As a developer, I'm also hoping they will start allowing Canadian developers to release paid applications as well.
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Will I be able to upgrade the TELUS version of this phone to Android 2.0?? That would be great!
Will I be able to upgrade the TELUS version of this phone to Android 2.0?? That would be great!
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