It is hard to understand why these Android OS updates take longer than anticipated and this is the ‘only’ reason which makes me hate Android at times. In some other corner of the world the Google Nexus One received the update ’some decades ago’ while the Orange HTC users are still craving the Eclair update. The good news though is that both HTC and Orange have issued a joint statement mentioning that the Orange HTC Hero handsets will start receiving the updates beginning next week. Both have apologized for the delay in the update release stating reasons

An Android update is such an important thing for smartphones given the rage for Google OS based devices in the market and therefore the news of the HTC Hero getting an Android 2.0 update in March raises a few brows. All OS updates i.e 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1 will be delayed until March as per an unofficial source that is certain about the delay. The delay is a consequence of HTC trying to tightly integrate the HTC Sense UI with the Android 2.0 and other versions of the software. The positive thing is that the HTC Hero might jump straight away from version 1.5 to 2.1 without