Compared to the HTC Hero, the iPhone’s Materials Suck [Rant]


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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/06/GREASE.jpg” width=”804″ height=”468″ style=”display:block;float:none;” /Yesterday I held the new a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5301955/htc-hero-android-phone-hands+on-with-video”HTC Hero/a next to my iPhone. Not only the new Android handset has a surprisingly cool designmdash;straight out of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek or Kubrick’s 2001mdash;but it kicks the iPhone’s material ass. Literally./p pSimply put, the Teflon-coated back just feels and looks a lot better than the iPhone’smdash;now crappy looking, I admitmdash;plastic back. The Hero’s polytetrafluoroethylenemdash;the technical name for DuPont’s Teflonmdash;coating feels perfect in your hand. It doesn’t appear to get any skin oil at all. No greasy fingerprints, just a perfect matte finish no matter how much I touched it./p pIt feels and looks like a white thermal tile out of NASA’s shuttle./p pThe iPhone’s plastic finish, on the other side, is a fingerprint magnet that looks as cheap as any Chinese knockoff after holding it for a few seconds. The Hero wins hands down on appearance, even [...]

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