Last month HTC introduced its third Android handset, the Hero. The device was billed as a touchscreen phone with a newly designed user interface and carried some sweet specs: GPS, digital compass, a 5-megapixel auto focus camera and an anti-fingerprint coating on the screen for smudge resistance.
But U.S. cellphone customers better not hold their breath for it. T-Mobile, which picked up HTC's previous two Android phones, has no plans to bring the HTC Hero to market, said T-Mobile CTO Cole Brodmanduring an event in New York City Wednesday.
Instead, T-Mobile made the myTouch 3G available for pre-orders. The myTouch 3G is based on HTC's Magic phone that was introduced in February, and is very similar to the Google Ion reviewed by Wired.com in June. It runs Google's Android operating system--like the T-Mobile G1--but has a touchscreen instead of a physical keyboard.
So far T-Mobile is the only telecom carrier in the U.S. to offer Android-based phones.
See Also:
- HTC Introduces Its Third Android Phone
- Second HTC Android Phone Peeks Out
- HTC Magic Android Phone Gets Unboxed
- HTC, Vodafone Show World's Second Googlephone
- Hands On With HTC G2 Android Phone
Photo: HTC Hero/HTC
