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Full-screen widgets
You can choose full-screen or smaller widgets to fill up your screen, and switch between them with the swipe of a finger.

We liked the full-screen widgets showing live updates from services like Twitter and Facebook, which gave the Hero a Palm Pre-like feel and took advantage of all that home screen real estate.

Social networking is integrated all over the UI. For example, your address book not only shows each contact's e-mail, text, and call history, but also shows their Facebook updates, profile photo, photo albums, and Flickr albums.

In the photo gallery, your phone photos are side-by-side with your Facebook and Flickr photos, too.

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Put it in your pants and you'll break it
If you have put that large LCD screen in your pants pocket, you better be good at replacing your screens. HTC makes great phones, and I prefer them over any others, including the iPhone. But seriously... (Read the rest)
Posted by: jim.denny@... Posted on: 06/25/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
I don't put a phone in my pants...  Narg | 06/25/09
RE: (HTC Hero hands-on photos)  sunspot@... | 06/25/09
Put it in your pants and you'll break it  jim.denny@... | 06/25/09

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