European HTC Hero to Taste Android 2.1 in June

HTC Hero, the first mobile phone the Taiwan-based handset vendor HTC Corporation pushed to the market with the HTC Sense solution on board, is expected to receive an upgrade to Android 2.1 across Europe as soon as next month. The update was promised ever since the operating system flavor arrived on the market back in January, and it seems that the company is finally getting ready to deliver it to its users. 


According to a recent article on phandroid, HTC itself announced that the update was set to arrive in June. Many HTC Hero owners, if not all of them, are quite unhappy with the fact that the update hasn't been rolled out until now, and, when contacted about its plans on the matter, the mobile-phone maker responded that the work on the software solution was in its final stages, and that following month was the lucky time frame for enthusiasts, just as previously announced. 

“Hi [redacted] thanks for your email. Regarding the Hero 2.1 update: This was delayed back in March, and is currently awaiting OTA release next month. There will be two updates that you will receive. The first will be a small update early in June that prepares the Hero to be able to receive the larger, 2.1 update a couple of weeks later. When you receive the prompt for the second update, which is the actual 2.1 update, I would suggest you do it over wifi as it is over 100MB in size. best regards, [redacted]. HTC,” is what the company reportedly answered. 

Reports on the Android 2.1 update started to emerge in the wild since a couple of months ago, yet there are great chances that things will prove real this time, it seems. Various HTC phones out there have already started to receive the software solution, including the HTC Hero over at Sprint, or the DROID Eris at Verizon, and the European version of HTC Hero might not be too far behind either. However, until an official announcement is made, or the actual upgrade emerges into the wild, the move is still covered in unvertainty. Keep an eye on this space for further updates on the matter.