No. The Hero is a full touch screen phone with a touch screen qwerty keypad
No.
No, HTC also has Windows Mobile phones. Here is a list of HTC phones with Android:HTC J ButterflyHTC RubyHTC PicoHTC FireballHTC GolfHTC Jewel
To activate a used HTC Hero, you must call your mobile phone company and they will give you directions on how to activate your phone.
NO it's not... Very unfortunate. The latest smartphone from Sprint that is a world phone is the Blackberry Tour. Check out this in-depth HTC Hero review... http://phandroid.com/2009/10/02/sprint-htc-hero-review/
Its nearly impossible, HTC Hero is the worse phone on the market! It is also very slow, coming from experience. I recommend this phone to no one!
the samsung messager touch, the Motorola backflip, or the HTC tilt;)
It would not cost anything to unlock a Sprint HTC Hero phone. There are instructions on how to do so on YouTube which are free of charge.
If you are going to buy a new phone, you should get the HTC Legend, which is a much better value for the money than the HTC Hero.
No , this phone just has inbuilt keyboard.
no.
Google's "Hero"- is a new google and HTC mobile phone. http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/overview.html
Not counting developer previews, the HTC Dream/G1 was the first phone released to market to run Android.