HTC Hero Coming to a Sprint Near You?
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 by Michael Kwan
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Remember the HTC Hero smartphone that was officially unveiled by HTC yesterday? As it turns out, we may already have a wireless carrier waiting in the wings to release this new Google Android phone. If the Palm Pre isn’t your cup of tea, Sprint may soon have some Android-loving Hero for you instead.
We’ll take this up as a completely unconfirmed report for the time being, but we’re hearing that Spring has Android “positioned squarely in its sights” and the HTC Hero is as likely a candidate as any. Since it is not yet available through other carriers, Sprint could be working on some sort of exclusive on the Hero, just as T-Mobile had with the G1 (Dream).
Again, we’re taking this rumor with a serious grain of salt, but the reports are pointing toward current testing on the part of Sprint with a “planned” release of the HTC Hero on its CDMA-based network some time toward the end of this year.
The interesting thing is that the HTC Hero unveiled yesterday was most definitely a GSM-based model, whereas Sprint cannot do the GSM thing just yet. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of HTC doing a CDMA swap for Sprint though.
In addition to the HTC Hero, it seems that Google Android could be coming to Sprint in the form of a new Samsung handset. This yet unnamed phone will do WiMAX and CDMA.
Source: PhoneNews
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the hero is gonna e for tmobile not sprint
haters keep hating bc sprint gonna have an android phone too. too bag tyhe g1 flopped and doesn't go faster than edge.
WOW learn some real english people.
the hero is going to sprint Sunday October 11th and then its suppose to also go to verizon next month