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We don’t have details on precisely what has changed yet, but that minor Android 1.5-based update Sprint had declare it’d be pushing out to the Hero has at this time launched. The best-case scenario would have the SMS issue — which causes the phone to stay awake when it shouldn’t — get resolved, but until Sprint hands out a proper changelog, it’ll be a matter of testing and guessing. Just a thought: if they’ve managed to squeeze a proximity sensor into the update, that brings ‘em up to the speed with the Droid Eris. Hey, it could happen.

Looking forward to a warm, delicious Donut or Eclair to get beamed down to your Sprint Hero? Well, keep on waiting — because there’s an update in the works, but it’s still plan to rock the same Android 1.5-based core that you’re already enjoying. it seems like users can expect a so-called maintenance release in “the next few weeks,” and while a complete changelog isn’t yet available, folks are being told that it’ll fix DST and messaging issues. As far as we know, HTC hasn’t put the finishing touches on Sense for 2.0 anyway, so we wouldn’t get discouraged just yet.

It’s continuously a good sign when a device-specific product release becomes the focal point of the XDA development community: it means you’ve got a winner on your hands. Not that anyone ever doubted the intense demand for Google’s new turn-by-turn Navigation introduced exclusively on Motorola’s DROID. No more. Brave souls have at this time tweaked the original code to run on the original Android device, the HTC G1 running on T-Mobile. Anecdotal reports suggest that it’s working great — a good sign that we’ll see a cooked ROM unveiled just as soon as feverish fingers can package the new code.