Saturday, December 12, 2009

HTC official: Hero to get Android Eclair "early next year"

If, like me,  you’re waiting for Android 2.0 or 2.1 to hit your HTC Hero, you may be interested in this tweet from HTC, posted yesterday, 11 December:

HTC tweet re Eclair on Sprint Hero early in 2010

I’m not with Sprint.  In fact I’m in the UK with T-Mobile, but I’m hoping the rollout will be pretty much at the same time, across all networks.

Earlier reports (like this one from Phandroid) had said the rollout would be sometime in the first half of 2010, which could be a longer wait.  Let’s hope they’re wrong.

Whatever the date, at least it looks like it will happen.  Some commentators had suggested that the retro-update of Android 1.6 with Google Mapping updates like those of 2.0 may leave some devices at 1.5 and 1.6 indefinitely.  There was also talk of rollout before Christmas but, on the positive side, the delay into 2010 must be good for the feature list of the update.  Looking forward to seeing HTC Sense running on Eclair.

Have you heard any more news on this?  Leave a comment.

[Via http://blog.3dbloke.com]

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