HTC’s third android phone the HTC Hero has just been released and the HTC London’s press event and features HTC’s new ‘Sense UI’ and a  fingerprint sensitive 3.2 inch HVGA screen.

HTC_Hero

Constructed from Teflon for added durability is fully 3G ready phone (3G support is for the 900/2100MHz HSPA bands and quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE). It also has the usual HTC android trackball and includes:

  • Android with HTC Sense
  • 112mm x 56.2mm x 14.35mm, 135g
  • Qualcomm MSM7200A 528MHz processor
  • Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, dual-band 7.2Mbps HSPA/WCDMA
  • 512 RAM / 288 ROM
  • 3.2″ HVGA capacitive touchscreen
  • 5.0 megapixel camera with auto-focus
  • Gravity sensor
  • Digital compass
  • WiFi 802.11b/g
  • GPS
  • Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR + A2DP
  • 3.5mm headphone jack
  • microSD
  • 1350 mAh battery
  • 420 minutes talktime / 750 hours standby (WCDMA)

The new HTC Hero phone also has a number of the TouchFLO 3D’s features including Facebook statuses, Flickr photos & Twitter widgets.

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The HTC Hero is expected to be released in Europe this July and Asia next summer. A US version will be available in late 2009. We’ll keep you posted on more information as it is released.

Via Slashgear, Dialaphone