HTC Hero slowly dieing

Jano · 12 Oct 2011 at 11:54

I have a pretty archaic (now) HTC Hero, got it as an upgrade on a Nokia 5400 which was absolutely shocking, while I was out of work. I've got about another 6 months on my contract with Orange but the phone is slowly grinding to a halt. Text messaging takes about 10 seconds before it will recognise any input on the touch screen, time/date takes even longer to update when the phone is unlocked, so it seems to me that its time for a change.

I do have the option to upgrade with Orange already, and will probably do that as they have been good so far and I dont really use the phone too much, swapping between a £15 and £20 a month contract, unlimited texts and more than enough calls. I don't use the net too much on the phone, only when im away from home for a while or dont have wifi access in an emergency.

Don't mind spending a bit on an upgrade, options it seems are -

HTC Wildfire
HTC Desire
HTC Mozart
HTC ChaCha

Samsung Galaxy Ace
Samsung Galaxy SII in white

Motorola Defy
Motorola Atrix

Sony Experia

The Galaxy SII costs £100 to upgrade to, is it worth it?

Jano · 12 Oct 2011 at 12:12

The Sensation is £200 to upgrade, so think thats a no go, seems a bit too much. Would get around £50 back for the Hero, so would be £50 to get the GS2, doesnt seem too bad really.

Nexus are the google phones right? Can't seem to find them on Orange, even as coming soon.

Jano · 12 Oct 2011 at 12:24

No it didn't. It's a relatively old phone though, I had assumed it was just showing its age and struggling a bit, it's also pretty battered!

Jano · 12 Oct 2011 at 12:31

The S2 in black again is £200 unfortunately.

Jano · 12 Oct 2011 at 12:41

I did try flashing a custom rom when I first got the phone but it just would not take it, might give it another go. After all this it seems Orange don't want me changing my phone yet anyway!

Jano · 12 Oct 2011 at 13:22

Same contract, just changing phone.

Jano · 12 Oct 2011 at 15:12

Myshra said:
I don't even get how this is being offered to you. You're not in the window that allows handset/contract upgrades yet (3 months) and if you just got sold a handset for £200 Orange would make a loss as you'd be out of contract in 6 months with no time to recoup the cost of the handset.

There's a 33% discount on early contract closures since this week under the early upgrade program but that seems to not be accounted for either.

Maybe this is some kind of odd offer due to something unusual but I'm honestly surprised we would throw money away like this without there being some other cost involved.

It's not available. The option was there in my account to go through the upgrade steps, choose a phone and so on, but when I try to checkout, its telling me I can't do it, yet. I had tried to do it in the past and it extended my contract but that options no longer there.