Telus has already announced that it will be launching the iphone in November. But, this is not yet officially announced and I am not sure of its actual date of release. Currently, the suggested date is November 5th. On this day, they will also show up their new HSPA and network. Telus is planning to sell this phone at a price of $99.99 for the basic 8GB iPhone 3G, and moving up to $199.99 for the 16GB 3GS, and $299.99 for the 32GB 3GS. All are available on a three year contract.

Telus will also do the official confirmation of the other wonderful smartphones such as HTC Hero, LG New Chocolate, the Blackberry Bold 9700, and the Nokia E71. Unfortunately the prices of these phones are not known and there is no much information about these phones.

A hero will rise and so has happened with the launched of HTC Hero. HTC has always worked hard to come out with smart phones that are mean machines and always stay in the frontline of market competition. With the launch of HTC Hero, HTC has come out with their latest and most advanced Android to date. Though the operating system looks somewhat familiar to iPhone’s OS, the bold and superior hardware talks about the state of the art gadgets that HTC is renowned for.Mobile reviews of any HTC smart phones are always positive and they talk about the QWERTY keypad that is a distinctive style of HTC, but this time they have come out with a iconoclastic look and breaking free from their traditional HTC smart phone appearance. No wonder HTC Hero is born and destined to become one of the best slim full touchscreen phones in today’s competitive mobile market.

Now that we have applauded the innovative look of HTC Hero, let me tell you that HTC Hero will hit the market shelves in white and brown shades. However, HTC has said that white HTC Hero will have a Teflon coating for keeping HTC Hero’s body dirt-free and that should also make it fingerprint-resistant. The brown HTC Hero might not have this added advantage, but both the HTC Hero will have a brushed aluminum display.Moving on further with this HTC Hero review, let me also tell you that the front side of the HTC Hero is dominated by the full-touchscreen display measuring 3.2 inches and that has 65K-color HVGA resolution that is standard with HTC phones. Moreover the sunlight legibility is not much of a concerned as HTC Hero screen looks pretty good even in daylight. The angled chin has certain hardware controls and a trackball that makes it stand out of the crowd of other smart phones available today in the market.Read more

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HTC officially announced the Hero that is the company’s third Android smartphone (the G3). Like the Magic (G2), the Hero is boosted by Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz processor. The Hero has a 3.2-inch 320×480 touchscreen LCD display, a trackball with enter button, a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera and integrated GPS receiver. It supports Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR/A2DP and WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity. The smartphone packs also G-sensor, microSD/SDHC card slot and digital compass.

HTC Hero’s media player supports MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and WMA9 audio files and MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, WMV9 video formats.

Hero will be released in Europe in July, Asia in Summer and N. America later this year.