HTC Hero on its way to Sprint! Confirmed!

[tokuzumi]

1) Phone has a capacitive screen. Responds to input from your finger. Not pressure.

2) Not sure. Android is open source, so if this isn't available now, tethering, such as WMWiFiRouter, will be available.

3) Hero has more ram, faster processor than G1, so your android experience should be faster.

Originally Posted by miamicanes

A few questions...

1) What safeguards does it have (either out of the box, or at least downloadable & existing today a-la-S2U2) to prevent you from accidentally placing calls or triggering input events if you carry the phone in your back pocket? Prior to discovering S2U2, I literally came within minutes of smashing my Touch in rage one night when an incoming missed call turned on the phone in my back pocket, and I ended up making a 47 minute call to my parents' voicemail (it had done other things in the past, that just happened to be the all-time low point of my relationship with the phone).

2) Will it be able to do phone-as-modem with Sprint's full knowledge and blessing? I currently pay Sprint the extra $25/month to get PAM instead of whatever they call their unlimited pda-only data plan this month and only use it occasionally... but when I want it (maybe a few hours per month), it's REALLY nice to have. I don't use it often enough to justify a USB device and second plan, but I've come to regard casual tetherability as non-negotiable requirement. If "Unlimited Everything" means "(except PAM)", is it at least available as an option?

3) Does anyone know what I can do with a developer-edition G1 that I WOULDN'T be able to do with a Sprint Hero (at least, not until someone figures out how to root it)? Specifically, what restrictions will the version of Android shipped with the phone enforce against user-installed apps? One of my pet development projects in the emulator has been a graffiti input method editor (overloading the volume-up button to activate full-screen finger-able graffiti input whenever it's pressed and held > 500ms). Up to now, it hadn't really sunk in that I wouldn't necessarily have carte-blanche access equal to that provided by a developer edition G1 with Sprint's phone, and I'm worried.