Comments on: Android This Week: A Hero Rides Into Town http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Android This Week: Chrome Won’t Kill the Mobile OS http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215389 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:01:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215389 [...] myTouch launch in New York, T-Mobile surprised folks by saying it “has no plans to bring the HTC Hero to market.” The HTC Hero is the upcoming Android phone with the innovative HTC Sense [...]

]]> By: Ryan http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215388 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:16:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215388 HTML 5 is really where Google wants everybody to move. Apps diminish their value, so I can see why platform fragmentation isn’t necessarily a bad thing for Google.

]]> By: David M http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215387 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:30:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215387 Well, speaking as a journalist in the UK who was at the launch, I had the phone’s designer tell me this himself. So, on his word, I’ll say the sideloading claim is true!

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215386 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:32:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215386 Phone OS updates involved reflashing the firmware. Any modifications made by third parties are lost in the process by nature.

]]> By: Roel Groeneveld http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215385 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:18:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215385 Actually, it’s also the first Android device that supports multitouch (at least in the browser), and can play Flash content. As shown in this Adobe video: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/htchero.html

]]> By: gp http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215384 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:48:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215384 phew …we need a common development platform ………..now days every god damn phone has it own platform ………….maybe HTML 5 and new webkit based browsers will save the day ?

]]> By: Paul Lopez http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215383 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:42:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215383 Like Mark says, we need some proof. I believe the perception is it will be like Windows Mobile and how updates cannot be obtained or applied by the consumer from Microsoft. I remember the hype with the G1 upgrade.

]]> By: Libran Lover http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215382 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:56:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215382 Good question. Seen too many blogs and articles pull this claim out of thin air.

]]> By: Mark Murphy http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215381 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:46:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215381 “But by forgoing the standard Android interface, OS updates that are pushed to users over the air can’t be applied to the Hero; owners of the Hero will instead have to rely on HTC to provide them.”

Got any proof?

]]> By: Gadget Sleuth http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215380 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:55:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215380 The new UI is nice, even though existing Android phones won’t be able to use it (though with open source that won’t be the case very long, no doubt).

]]> By: Android This Week: A Hero Rides Into Town - TechChuck http://gigaom.com/2009/06/27/android-this-week-a-hero-rides-into-town/#comment-215379 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:57:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=56114#comment-215379 [...] the whole story on GigaOM or try our ToolbarRelated stories from top sites:NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — As mobile users [...]

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