Sprint has announced the launch of the HTC Hero for October the 11th commanding a subsidised price of $180 and will be Sprint’s first Android platform smartphone after signing on as an initial Google platform supporter some 2 year ago reports ethioplanet.
The HTC Hero’s price tag undercuts the price of the Palm Pre and delivers features such as a large touch screen, 5 megapixel camera, CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev. A and WiFi, not too sure if the Hero undercuts the Pre considering we wrote about the price not so long ago (Please read)
Sprint compares the feature set of the HTC Hero with that of the iPhone 3GS, Verizon BlackBerry Storm and T-Mobile myTouch 3G, and the HTC Hero does well in comparison, but when compared with the palm pre the HTC Hero outshines as it has access to more than 8000 Android apps and larger memory.