Eris perched in preperation for belly flop

O.K., so everybody knows that the HTC Desire is now called Eris, right? Good. And you’ve all read about Droid being a Verizon *series* rather than a single device, correct? Good. And you’ve heard that Eris is expected to be available on 11/6, haven’t you? Good. Now that we’ve got all of that straight, there’s one more bit of information I need to cover that wasn’t leaked in the gdgt entry for Eris: it’s got a measly 528 MHz processor! I’m with Engadget in saying that this thing is nearly obsolete before it even drops!

That VZW would launch a phone with the same processor as a year-old device that just saw it’s last OTA update (yes folks, I’m told Eclair is definitely too large for an official G1 update) is ridiculous, in my mind. On a related note, Verizon reps are currently being trained for Eris support. How long is the list of appropriate apologies for performance issues, I wonder. I see why Sholes is at the front of this marketing campaign. When will the world be depleted of 528 MHz Qualcomms!?!

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I have to agree with the not surprised crowd. This is a just a Hero on Verizon guys. I've actually been wanting a Hero for a long time and now I have finally get the chance. The way I see it is that they are going to have the 3 models of android phones: Eris (Hero) at the cheap end, Nice and quick easy on the eyes; Moto Droid in the middle with a keyboard, android 2 and a little faster proc and then the Passion at the top with it's snapdragon proc and sense 2 running on android 2. Makes perfect sense to me actually. I don't see why everyones freaking out. Besides, why would a company release two android phones with similar specs at the same time? Which one would you tell people to buy? Let me add just a little here at the end: The Droid is not at all interesting to me. I'm sorry guys. I know how excited you all are but to me this thing is ugly and android 2.0 on it's own is still not enough to make me interested. I couldn't tell you exactly why it is but I think HTC's sense UI is in a league of it's own.

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Funny. I do like Android 2.0 a lot, but somehow I doubt it's all it's hyped to be. I'd much rather have a UI overhaul. But it's still... 3 home screens, still the white notification bar and stuff and overall pretty boring looking. I don't get why they don't push the design of it a bit further. Or at least make it user customizable.

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I have to agree with the not surprised crowd. This is a just a Hero on Verizon guys. I've actually been wanting a Hero for a long time and now I have finally get the chance. The way I see it is that they are going to have the 3 models of android phones: Eris (Hero) at the cheap end, Nice and quick easy on the eyes; Moto Droid in the middle with a keyboard, android 2 and a little faster proc and then the Passion at the top with it's snapdragon proc and sense 2 running on android 2. Makes perfect sense to me actually. I don't see why everyones freaking out. Besides, why would a company release two android phones with similar specs at the same time? Which one would you tell people to buy? Let me add just a little here at the end: The Droid is not at all interesting to me. I'm sorry guys. I know how excited you all are but to me this thing is ugly and android 2.0 on it's own is still not enough to make me interested. I couldn't tell you exactly why it is but I think HTC's sense UI is in a league of it's own.

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Funny. I do like Android 2.0 a lot, but somehow I doubt it's all it's hyped to be. I'd much rather have a UI overhaul. But it's still... 3 home screens, still the white notification bar and stuff and overall pretty boring looking. I don't get why they don't push the design of it a bit further. Or at least make it user customizable.

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Well first of all, this is the Hero, so yeah, it's Qualcomm 528 MHz, as expected. Furthermore, they might be targeting the "cheapies" as was said earlier. The Droid is not going to be cheap for one thing. Aaaand... as we can see from freaking Samsung Moment, Processor clock frequency is NOT all that matters. It's RAM. And the Hero has (quite a bit) more RAM than the G1. Plus the processor was clocked down on the G1 (I'm not sure if it is on the Hero).

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By the way, I've had a G1 for a while and I'm as ready for 1Ghz Snapdragon goodness as the next person...

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I'm surprised by everyones' negative reaction. Just a week or two ago every website's Sprint Hero review was touting it as the best Android phone available. Sure the Droid will likely be better, but I have a hard time believing this will absolutely suck. If the price point is right I think it will be a great addition.

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Well first of all, this is the Hero, so yeah, it's Qualcomm 528 MHz, as expected. Furthermore, they might be targeting the "cheapies" as was said earlier. The Droid is not going to be cheap for one thing. Aaaand... as we can see from freaking Samsung Moment, Processor clock frequency is NOT all that matters. It's RAM. And the Hero has (quite a bit) more RAM than the G1. Plus the processor was clocked down on the G1 (I'm not sure if it is on the Hero).

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By the way, I've had a G1 for a while and I'm as ready for 1Ghz Snapdragon goodness as the next person...

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I'm surprised by everyones' negative reaction. Just a week or two ago every website's Sprint Hero review was touting it as the best Android phone available. Sure the Droid will likely be better, but I have a hard time believing this will absolutely suck. If the price point is right I think it will be a great addition.

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Isn't this the same processor the Hero has? If so I'm not sure why this is such a surprise to everyone. I thought all along it was knows that this phone was the simply the Hero with a different name.

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It's not a surprize. It's the exact opposite. I'm tired of hearing the number...528

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Its Completely idiotic to come out with the same processor that was on the 1st Android phone, and release it on the same day as the Driod. Doesn't make sense, no pun intended. Thats like Apple coming out with the 1st generation and the 3GS version around the same time. Nobody's going to want the Eris when they see what the Droid can do. HTC Needs to get on it! 2.0 with a better Processor Plz!

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probably just to target the cheapies and those that want to try out a smart phone for the first time. All the die hards that read up on phones will be all over the droid where as my wife would like the pretty sense UI and not care about hardware. Verizon is creating 3 different Droid markets and I think it is smart. I think the next HTC phone on Verizon will be the one to get, but I am so geeked up that I will have a Moto Droid as soon as I can!

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Isn't this the same processor the Hero has? If so I'm not sure why this is such a surprise to everyone. I thought all along it was knows that this phone was the simply the Hero with a different name.

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It's not a surprize. It's the exact opposite. I'm tired of hearing the number...528

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Its Completely idiotic to come out with the same processor that was on the 1st Android phone, and release it on the same day as the Driod. Doesn't make sense, no pun intended. Thats like Apple coming out with the 1st generation and the 3GS version around the same time. Nobody's going to want the Eris when they see what the Droid can do. HTC Needs to get on it! 2.0 with a better Processor Plz!

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probably just to target the cheapies and those that want to try out a smart phone for the first time. All the die hards that read up on phones will be all over the droid where as my wife would like the pretty sense UI and not care about hardware. Verizon is creating 3 different Droid markets and I think it is smart. I think the next HTC phone on Verizon will be the one to get, but I am so geeked up that I will have a Moto Droid as soon as I can!

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