HTC Hero named as Smartphone of the Year
Smartphone Essentials magazine has unveiled the winners of its awards for 2009, and has named the HTC Hero as Smartphone of the Year
Smartphone Essentials magazine has unveiled the winners of its awards for 2009, and has named the HTC Hero as Smartphone of the Year. The awards, sponsored by leading online retailer eXpansys, showcase the best smartphone and satnav products of the last twelve months, as picked by journalists, industry experts and readers of Smartphone Essentials and smartphonedaily.co.uk.
The full list of winners is:
Smartphone of the Year – HTC Hero
Best Consumer Smartphone – HTC Hero
Best Business Smartphone – BlackBerry Curve 8900
Best Value Smartphone – Nokia 5800
Best Satnav device – TomTom XL LIVE
Best Satnav software – ALK CoPilot Live 8
Best Accessory – Optoma Pico Pocket Projector
eXpansys Customer Award: Best Smartphone – Apple iPhone 3GS
eXpansys Customer Award: Best GPS – TomTom GO 940 LIVE
Smartphone Essentials Readers’ Award: Best Smartphone – HTC Touch Pro2
Smartphone Essentials Readers’ Award: Best GPS – Garmin 1390t
Smartphone Essentials Readers’ Award: Best Network – T-Mobile
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After reading your review and seeing your award I purchased the HTC Hero – a big step having been a Sony Ericsson user from the days of the R380 through the P series.
Sadly, I quickly found that the PC Sync software on the Hero is seriously flawed. It is very difficult to get the PC to recognise and connect with the Hero although it can be done with some messing around with the phone’s menus. Once connected I was able to get Outlook Calendar to sync but there was no way that the Outlook Contacts would go across.
The HTC hotline told me to reload all the software on the phone and the PC which I did. Still no Contacts sync. So I tried the hotline again – and this time they just hung up!
The phone is on its way back – so please could you tell me what you would recommend now?!
Thanks
Adrian
PC syncing is probably the biggest weakness of the Android system as a whole – it’s really designed for the ‘cloud’.
Take a look at the HTC HD2 as an alternative. It’s a superb handset which has many similarities with the Hero, but it runs Windows Mobile so the PC syncing is far better.
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