With the HTC Desire and HTC legend running Android 2.1 and now available it seems the HTC hero is being left behind in the operating system update stakes. However according to an article over on know your mobile, its catch up time for the HTC Hero.

Apparently the HTC Club has now confirmed that the HTC Hero smartphone will gain the Android 2.1 update as of the 16th of April as per previous rumours that roll out would commence on the 16th and 22nd.

Apparently the initial batch of Greek/Nordic/Rus/UKR/SA ROMs was due as of the 2nd of April but will now also gain Android 2.1 upgrade as of the 16th.

Therefore it would appear that the delays with getting Android 2.1 update to the HTC Hero is now at an end and we should see Android 2.1 hitting the HTC Hero within the next nine days.