HTC Hero Getting Android 2.1

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Users of the HTC Hero will soon be happily getting Android 2.1. This comes after leaked screenshots of a HTC Hero running Android 2.1 started circulating around the internet. The HTC Hero was released earlier this year featuring Android 1.5, and HTC promised a Android 2.0 update last month via Twitter.

Last month, HTC made a mysterious twitter post saying simply, “The rumors are true! Hero will be getting an Eclair update. We ask for your patience as we update Sense for the fancy new Android OS.”

Sense is HTC’s propitiatory touchscreen GUI/feel technology. While a phone may run Windows Mobile or Android, it’ll still use the HTC Sense look-and-feel. HTC has appearantly finished porting Sense to Android, as it even can run Android 2.1 with out any problem.

Aside from the new secret screenshots (with somebody’s sensitive personal information blocked out)  not much is known about Android 2.0. Google promised that the Android 2.1 update will ‘fix bugs with Android 2.0′, so don’t expect a slew of new features, aside from the minor GUI updates.

The lucky phone getting the update, the HTC Hero, is a pretty feature-packed touch-screen phone with a 5 megapixel camera and a 3.2-inch screen, among other things.