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WILDCARD ENTRY: HTC Hero

HTC, Google and the legions of people who would rather not buy an Apple at last have something to shout about. The Hero is a full featured, wonderfully usable, beautifully presented handset with a similarly lovely open source OS.

Available in a range of handsome colours including controversial pink and modish brown, the Hero contrives to be both serious and businesslike, yet devilishly cool. With HTC’s massively customisable Sense skin over Google’s Android OS it allows you to make it exactly the phone you need. The responsive, 3.2-inch touchscreen and ever-widening range of apps do the rest.

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