@Mac Porteiro
Im one of the "lucky ones" who never had any troubles with the Hero's WIFI connection (my issue with it related to tethering it to my XP netbook), but is you read a bit the thread you'll notice that I'm far from being the only one, and even those who did have troubles with it ,managed to get over them once they switched to a router that enjoys the Hero's approval or simply updated their software.
HTC made quite clear that the Hero and the MyTouch at the moment are unwilling to play nice with N routers, and thats surely something in need of a fix, but I have never seen a public hotspot relying only on the N band, which besides not even yet being a definitive standard, is not supported by the wide majority of laptops and netbooks around, including my own 1 year old MSI wind.
Funny you compare the Hero with the iPhone, because my first choice had been the new iPhone 3GS, but I got so disappointed by it that I took it back to the shop before a week from the date I bought it, and I had it exchanged with the Hero.
To tell you all the story I actually bought a Nokia N97, but when it came out of the box it did'nt satisfy me, but I could nt bring it back before a week so I had to keep it, and thats when I bought the iPhone that I then exchanged for the Hero.
Even though as I said the N97 did'nt satisfy me when I bought it (about a month ago) , since then Nokia has released 2 new ROM firmwares for it , and more than 1 over the air updates and fixes A DAY for the last 3 weeks; 3 of them just today; so with those fixes, some decrappifying sessions, and the downloading of some of the 1000s cool and free themes, apps, programs , etc, available from their OVI store and (specially) from the dozens of web pages dedicated to Symbian S60; the N97 has now become the ultimate powerhouse phone which was not when it first came out of its box.
During this time I kept using my 10 months old, trusty , HTC TouchHD, which I realized is still the best win mob. telephone money can buy (yes, it's still better than the new HTC TP2)
So now I find myself in the slightly ridicolous position of having 3 smartphones (HTC's TouchHD and Hero and Nokia's N97) even though my provider lets me have max 2 sim cards, but I still cant decide which one is the the best between them.
I guess that Ill have to wait until next month when I'll be able to buy the new Linux driven ,Nokia N900 /Rover, If it really turns out to be as good as they say then Ill sell all my 3 little toys.
BTW, anyone interested?
