HTC, Android’s only best friend, has announced yet another Android based handset, HTC Hero. Like its name, the handset looks sleek, sexy and seems that it is here to stay. HTC Hero’s hardware is similar to that of HTC G1 and HTC magic but the form factor is more alluring. The handset has support for Adobe Flash, which iPhone still lacks and its also sports a 3.5mm standard headphone jack. Other features include, a 5 meg snapper, 528 MHz Qualcomm processor, 512MB ROM, 288 MB Ram, Wi-Fi, GPS, Compass, microSD slot. To reduce finger prints and smudges on the phone, HTC Hero is Teflon coated and has the features like Widgets, which can be customized to suit your needs and the Sense feature can be used to switch between different user profiles, it can also be sued to switch between different widgets available. Hero indeed sounds to be a great phone by the way, with all this catchy features. Lets wait for some more first impressions. The phone is more people centered. [Via]

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Recently formed GSM JV, Tata-DoCoMo has announced the launch of its services in Tamil Nadu. Earlier it was indicated that their services will be rolled out all over India starting from South India. With the Indian GSM market being dominated by bigwigs like AirTel and Vodafone, Tata-DoCoMo is offering some differentiating services to its prospective customers. It is focusing on exact air time by charging cost/second. Users will be charged 1 paise/second thus they end up paying exactly for the time they have been on the call. This will be same for Value Added Services that the company will be offering. For starters the company is giving free miss call alerts and free voice mail with no monthly rentals. This is a good strategy by Tata-DoCoMo to lure new users to use its GSM network. There is one more insider news about a new company called Rainbow surveying the South Indian market for the launch of its GSM based services. Rainbow is the JV between an Indian and a Russian company.

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S is for Speed. Or is it? iPhone 3G vs iPhone 3GS in a speed test. Seven tests - you pick the winner. Read the rest of this entry »