iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre vs Nokia N97 vs Samsung i8910 HD vs HTC Hero vs Sony Ericsson Satio

By Flora Graham on 25 June 2009, 4:53pm

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The HTC Hero is the third phone to sport Google's Android operating system. They just keep getting better -- we respected the T-Mobile G1, liked the HTC Magic, and we're ready to fall in love with the HTC Hero.

Hey, good-lookin'
HTC has wrapped Android in a new user interface, called Sense, which has some great features that we haven't seen in previous Android devices. For example, your photo album will access your Facebook and Flickr galleries, as well as the images on your phone -- and it'll do the same for your contacts. There's also Flash support, which means surfing the Web is even closer to the big-screen experience.

Button-mashing frenzy
We find that the more physical buttons a touchscreen phone has the worse the touch experience -- why else would you need all those buttons? The Hero has six, plus a trackball, which could lead to way too many confusing options and menus. And we're still not sure about the 15° curve of the handset, although it's much better-looking in person than in pictures.

Hit 'continue' to limber up with the Sony Ericsson Satio.