The Android Community got their hands on an unlocked HTC Hero, a little earlier. Though the device would be launching pretty soon in Europe, it would take a while before finding its way around the rest of the world.

The video shows different aspects of the HTC Sense UI from the perspective of a consumer – and believe me it looks great. Just seeing the video got me asking for more, and I just can’t wait to see how the device handles multi-touch input.

Spec-wise and design-wise, it is the most decent Android Phone yet but does the do well enough to keep up? In most cases yes. The device seems pretty responsive, though not as much as the Pre but its good enough. The OS is nicely tucked away under the interface and you can actually apply different themes to it, which is a good thing.

While Google might have moved on with its plan to put Android on netbooks, at least one of Google’s “partners” still intends to do so. Acer would be launching an dual boot netbook running Android and Windows XP as early as August.

The NVIDIA Tegra system-on-a-chip has been generating a lot of buzz in the Mobile industry as it posses to be a solid competition to the ARM which currently dominates the market. Tegra platform can power anything from Smartphones and GPS Navigators to Mobile Internet Devices and Netbooks, though everything had been focused towards Windows Mobile for now.

Today NVIDIA unveiled its plans to develop the Tegra platform for the Android market too, as it believes that Android may surpass WinMo by the year 2012, which may be a little far fetched given the fact that Microsoft also plans to release Windows Mobile 7 next year.

Yeah though HTC and Google decided not to implement Multitouch into the final G1, it turns out that both the operating system and the hardware had support for it.
Thanks to the hardworking community of modders and hackers out there, multitouch has landed on Android. Check sample videos after the break if your not convinced.