HTC MOBILE: HTC Hero S

Wednesday 27 June 2012

HTC Hero S

Like many other Android phones, the Hero S is a nondescript slab with a glass touch screen that measures 4.5 by 2.4 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.6 ounces. It's made of a mixture of dark gray aluminum and plastic, with an aluminum piece in the center of the back panel. The 4-inch, 540-by-960-pixel (qHD) capacitive touch screen looks sharp and crisp; if you're particular about the way your fonts look, you'll like this display more than the one on the Electrify. Four capacitive touch buttons sit beneath the screen. Typing using HTC's upgraded on-screen QWERTY keyboard was easy in both portrait and landscape modes. I usually prefer HTC's keyboard to other Android phones, thanks to its well-tuned haptic feedback and predictive text algorithm.