Hero’s specs are very much similar to its predecessor HTC Magic, but ups the ante with a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, Adobe Flash support, HTC Sense UI, and improved battery life.

HTC Hero comes with a 3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution. a 5 mega-pixel autofocus camera and expandable MicroSD memory. HTC Hero also includes a GPS, digital compass, gravity-sensor, Quad-band GSM, trackball, 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0.

A dedicated Search button enables you to locates people in your contact list, finds emails in your inbox, searches through appointments in the calendar or search in any other area in Hero. HTC is also providing a new profile feature called scenes that allows you to create different customized content profiles about specific events or times in your life.

The HTC Hero will be available in Europe starting  July and in Asia later in the summer. A distinct North American version will be available later in 2009.

HTC Hero specifications:

HSPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

Processor: Qualcomm MSM7200A, 528 MHz

Memory ROM: 512 MB / RAM: 288 MB

Operating System: Android™

Display 3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution

5.0 megapixel camera with auto focus

Device Control Trackball with Enter button

Internal GPS antenna

Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless

Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g

3.5 mm audio jack

microSD memory card

G-sensor

Digital Compass

Battery: 1350 mAh

Talk time:

- Up to 420 minutes for WCDMA

- Up to 470 minutes for GSM

Standby time:

- Up to 750 hours for WCDMA

- Up to 440 hours for GSM

Dimensions: 112 x 56.2 x 14.35 mm

Weight: 135 grams

Audio supported formats: MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and Windows Media Audio 9

Video Supported Formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and Windows Media Video 9.

Demo video:

The LG Viewty Smart equiped with a 3-inch WVGA touchscreen which uses LG’s new 3D S-Class GUI as seen on the LG Arena KM900, and a 8 megapixel camera with autofocus, Xenon flash, image stabilizer face-tracking. The LG GC900  also has HSDPA support for high-speed 3G connectivity.

LG Viewty Smart will be the slimmest 8-MP cameraphone in the world at 12.4mm and records videos at 720×480 px resolution and geotag photos using the integrated A-GPS receiver.

LG Viewty Smart is headed for Orange mobile network. but we didn’t hear so far anything official from either LG or Orange in the UK.

Prices and exact availability are not yet available.

LG Viewty Smart GC900 specifications:

* GSM Quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) UMTS European/Asian 3G (2100 MHz)
* Data: GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA 1.8 Mbit/s/HSDPA 3.6 Mbit/s/HSDPA 7.2 Mbit/s
* 3-inch WVGA touchscreen with 800 x 480 px resolution
* 8 megapixel camera with Xenon Flash, manual and auto focus, image stabilizer, face tracking, Blink shot, Smile Detection and high speed video recording.
* 1.5 GB of internal memory
* S class 3D interface
* MPEG4, WMV, AVI, DivX, XviD and H.264
* microSD/microSDHC, up to 32GB
* FM Radio
* Built-in Wi-Fi
* 2.0, Stereo Bluetooth with A2DP
* USB 2.0
* A-GPS
* Accelerometer
* size: 100.8 x 55.8 x 12.4 mm
* Weight: 3.17 oz  (90 g)