Bad news for HTC Hero fans today as it emerged that the launch of the much anticipated handset may be delayed. Phone Arena are mentioning a release date of 21st July based upon comments made on cleverkit.com whilst Engadget are quoting Amazon as saying the release date will be on 24th July. Either way it isn’t good news for those who were looking forward to a release tomorrow.

Of course it may be that the release will go ahead as planned tomorrow on Orange UK, but that retailers offering the handset only will have to wait a week or two to begin selling the device. The HTC Hero is the third Android powered handset to go on sale and will be much anticipated as a result.