The HTC Hero is the first Android phone to ship with Adobe Flash  technology. This makes it possible to view Flash-enabled websites and ads on the  HTC Hero.

Close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash. The HTC Hero offers people a more complete Flash based web browsing experience. The HTC Hero has customized interface for social networking and offers "scenes" for access.

The new HTC Hero allows users to browse and discover a broader set of web content and applications not supported by mobile phones in the past. People can also view YouTube videos using Flash technology, and enable full screen viewing mode by double tapping

The HTC Hero uses Flash technology, and interactive content enabled by ActionScript 2.0. The software is integrated into the HTC Hero ROM. The HTC Hero offers progressive streaming of large MP3 audio files from a web server and the local file storage for audio. Support for Sorenson and On2 VP6 codecs enables higher quality video and playback of existing web content. A demo of the user experience enabled by the Flash Platform on the HTC Hero and the Android operating system can be viewed at www.adobe.com/go/htchero.