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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and we're about to turn on the HTC Hero for the very first time I've just put in the SIM card and I've never actually started up an Android device for the first time I've used the platform before but you're gonna see with me what it's like to turn on the hero for the first time so let's get a little bit closer it's fully charged it's ready to go so let's turn out and see what happens here oh okay in the HTC font okay little little Android guy popped up in the Oh up there is again HTC sound I've got some glowing going on here on the buttons screen locked drag down to unlock okay I'm assuming there's gonna be some kind of first time set up screen looks really crisp by the way select your language English yep that's me next using the on-screen keyboard learn how to quickly and accurately enter text using auto correction and symbol shortcuts don't worry about pressing the right key every time kind of like the iPhone keyboard tap here to start typing okay touch inside the S circle to enter s okay s eye is kind of guiding me around s I am it's a simple simple this is what you just typed this is what we suggest tapping the space key accept the suggestion like the iPhone and many other windows mobile devices simpler has been corrected too simple now you can type quickly and let the keyboard do the corrections okay next learn how to quickly enter accented characters press and hold this is just like the on-screen keyboards on the HTC devices like the diamond - and the touch pro2 press and hold the a key okay I just did now it says drag - it says personal the F to keep F key dollar sign tap the close button to exit hide away the keyboard connecting to Wi-Fi may improve the speed of the setup process would you like to connect now sure and here is my network gonna type in the password all right so I'm connected to the Wi-Fi network very nice next see what's next you can automatically sync mail contacts and calendar events by setting up one or more following exchange types account types awesome it has Microsoft Exchange which is terrific because I use that religiously so I'm going to enter in my exchange information alright so it connected to the exchange server and it's asking me do I want to sync mail contacts and calendar and of course I do it doesn't look like task is on here which is kind of interesting let's go to next processing okay set up accounts you can automatically and we're back to this screen so we can set up a gmail account if if you use Gmail in addition but we're gonna go to next since I already set up Microsoft Exchange looks like the trackball lights up set up social networks your favorite social networks to send and receive updates using the built-in features of your people and album well I'm definitely going to put in Twitter I'm not sure about Facebook and Flickr just yet so if I do Twitter I'm going to put my Twitter handle in and let me put the password in there okay put the password in and log into Twitter cool logged into Twitter click next connect location service provider applications with your approximate location without using GPS allow Google location services to collect anonymous and aggregate location data collection will occur regardless of whether any yeah sure whatever to learn more first about doing the following go to HTC comm slash hero and click finish and I think we are going to be taken into the Sense UI interface awesome so here we are in the sense UI and after I've gotten some time to play with it and learn more about it you'll see the next video which is coming soon so overall a pretty great first time setup experience I like how it walks you through creating a new account and adding your Twitter account and Facebook I like how it walks you through how to actually use the keyboard I think some people may misunderstand the keyboard and think you have to be extremely precise when typing when that's not the case you can hit approximate areas and it will still understand what you're trying to say we'll be back soon with more on the HTC hero that's it for now