Sprint has announced on its Twitter account that it will be pushing an Android 2.2 update to all the HTC EVO 4g smartphones “in the near future”. Sprint also indicated that other Android 2.1 phones launching this year will also get the Android 2.2 update.

Sling Media Inc today announced the availability of its SlingPlayer Mobile application for Android Smartphones like Motorola Droid, HTC Droid Incredible, HTC Evo and Google Nexus One. The SlingPlayer application allows the Android phone users to easily access their home TV experience anywhere with their mobile phone or Wi-Fi internet access.

After many delays and rumored Sprint has finally announced the availability of Android 2.1 update package for the HTC Hero. This update will not be done over-the-air as of now and so you will have do a manual update. You can get the updates from 2 sites: HTC’s website and Sprint’s own site.

Amazon has announced that it will be releasing its Kindle App for Android OS this summer. When available this application will be free to use. With Kindle Android App you can search and browse more than 500,000 books, including more than 96 of 110 New York Times bestsellers.

Dolphin Browser has been updated to support multi-touch for the Motorola Droid. Previous versions of the web browser supported only the HTC Hero and customized Cyanogen Android firmware. Along with enhancing your web browsing experience with multi-touch, Dolphin Browser also has some very good features for Social networking and others.

Sprint has started sending over-the-air software update to the Sprint Hero handsets. This firmware fixes many issues prominent among them being the daylight savings bug and the bug with the SMS causing battery drain.
If you didn’t automatically receive the OTA software updated versioned 1.56.651.2 then do the following:

Go to Settings
Select About
Select System Updates
Then select Firmware Update.

Check out the Official change log:

Feature Updates and Enhancements
HTC Hero Software Enhancement SW 1.56.651.2 provides feature updates and enhancements to address the following:

Improvement to camera picture quality
DST (Daylight Savings …

As part of its Holiday promotion, Best Buy will be selling the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment for only $100. Could the drop in price be attributed to the $99 Verizon Eris? This price is of course tied to a 2 year contract.
Check out these links for more details:

HTC Hero from Best Buy for Sprint
Samsung Moment from Best Buy for Sprint

HTC today officially unveiled its next Android based touch screen smartphone called as HTC Hero. The smartphones though similar in its spec to the HTC Magic beats it with 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, 3.5mm headphone jack, improved battery life and Adobe Flash support.
What is exciting about this phone is the all new HTC Sense UI which breaks free from the dull Google-centric Android interface to deliver a fresh, smooth, sleek new way of staying in touch with people.

Courtesy of the folks at Code Android Singapore, new images of the Android OS powered HTC Hero have surfaced. These images follow an earlier image that was leaked back in January. That image was that of an all pink HTC Hero. These new images however have a more traditional black matte finish. There is no other details available as of now. So just check out the images for now.