After the Magic launch yesterday, HTC is holding a press conference in London today to announce something big. Guess what, they have announced the new device on their website even before the press conference could begin.

HTC has already uploaded the product page for Hero, the handset manufacturer’s third Android phone. From what we can grasp from the bits of information on these pages, the Hero would be the most customised Android phone to date. Okay, there ain’t many Android phones out there but the Hero has a heavily tweakable UI. Mind you, there is no mention of Google, so we expect it to be sans Android Market and other Google goodies.

HTC is touting something called scenes, which in our opinion is something like Palm’s card deck on the webOS. It would make multi-tasking easier and bring tonnes of information on the home screen. Taking more inspiration from webOS, HTC is also talking about consolidating your contacts, emails, etc into a single place. So you’d be able to opebn a particular contact, see all his details, history of interactions — IM, text, calls and emails — and so on. And yeah, they are talking about a browser that supports Flash!! About time, we say.

Now the all-important specs:

Processor	Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
Operating System	Androidâ„¢
Memory	ROM: 512 MB RAM: 288 MB
Dimensions (LxWxT)	112 x 56.2 x 14.35 mm ( 4.41 x 2.21 x 0.57 inches)
Weight	135 grams ( 4.76 ounces) with battery
Display	3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution
Network	HSPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz (Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)
Device Control	Trackball with Enter button
GPS	Internal GPS antenna
Connectivity	Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one) 3.5 mm audio jack
Camera	5.0 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Audio supported formats	MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and Windows Media® Audio 9
Video supported formats	MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and Windows Media® Video 9
Battery	Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery Capacity: 1350 mAh Talk time: Up to 420 minutes for WCDMA Up to 470 minutes for GSM Standby time: Up to 750 hours for WCDMA Up to 440 hours for GSM (The above are subject to network and phone usage.)
Expansion Slot	microSDâ„¢ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
AC Adapter	Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz DC output: 5V and 1A
Special Features	G-sensor Digital Compass

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