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Our friends at GCI advise that the Androids have, indeed, invaded Alaska! GCI’s new phone the HTC Hero, features the Google Android operating system, which means it synchs nicely with all those Googley apps, including Gmail, Youtube, Google Voice and bunches of other applications.

Back a-w-a-y from the hotel phone. The nationwide unlimited plan with the HTC Hero is $99.99/mo., with a 2-year contract. No need to incur fat fees for dialing from your room! 

I’m still getting used to the 3.2-inch touch screen. I can flip the screen sideways to type on my QWERTY keyboard sideways. Thankfully, the numbers on the dialing screen are nice and big.

The new Hero is made for the social networker in all of us–it’s easy to flip back and forth between Twitter, Facebook and email.

MAPS. MAPS. MAPS. This is a big help when you’re on the road! The Hero works quite nicely with Google Maps.

Other features include:
a. MP3 sterero music player
b. Brilliant screen quality
c. Customizable home screens
d. Internal GPS – with Google Maps
e. 5 MP camera with zoom
f. Unlimited Talk/Text and Data nationwide: $99.99/mo.

Check out the new Android “Hero” today at a GCI store.

Close to home, I’m used to a fast internet connection, a dependable cell phone and all the comforts of home: cable tv, video on demand and all that jazz. But on the road, we typically run into a mish-mash of protocols: no wireless, expensive wireless, slow wireless. That’s where GCI’s “Xtreme Mobility” card comes in handy. The device costs $20/mo. if you have a GCI cable modem at home. This handy device plugs into the USB slot on your laptop. GCI is spooling up more areas around the state where it works on the fast 3G network: Juneau, Ketchikan, Fairbanks, Kenai, Homer, Seward, Kodiak, etc. So–say goodbye to expensive hotel wireless, s-l-o-w “free connections” and clogged-up coffee shop networks.

Make 2010 the year you make the jump to GCI’s smart-phone package. I’m hooked on my Crackberry. Email. Camera. Web browser. Calendar. HOOKED, I say. Get a FREE Blackberry smartphone: choose from four different Blackberry models. You have to sign up for the wireless plan for two years (I choose the $100/mo. unlimited for phone calls/texting), plus the $30 data package for Blackberry. Get with it!

GCI now is taking pre-orders for the HTC HERO Android Smartphone. This new smartphone has Google connectivity, inernal GPS, a 3.2 inch touch screen (with virtual QWERTY keyboard), a 5.0 MP camera with auto-focus and GCI’s high-speed 3G network. Sign up now to reserve your HTC Hero, first-come/first serve, while supplies last. Cost for the HTC Hero is $99.99, with a 2-year contract and 3G Smartphone package.