Ahh, Teflon, is there anything you can’t do. Well, yes, now we think about it. You probably can’t / shouldn’t be used as, say, plant food, because you are inedible. But aside from all the things you can’t do, there are an increasing number of things you can. First non-stick pans, today mobile phone coatings, tomorrow the world. Or the inedible parts of the world, at least. But let’s focus on what’s happening today (or in the very near future), because Teflon is making its debut appearance on mobile phone in the (weird) shape of the HTC Hero. Hurrah, we say. Because, as we’re sure like most of you, our pockets are always full of any combination of the following: crushed crisps, salt, buttons, chewing we didn’t throw on the ground because that policeman was watching, half a twix, a rail ticket for a place we’ve never heard of, what might be salsa, a moist towelette from KFC (no longer moist), some keys, some more keys, what used to be a key but now we use for picking our nose as we can’t remember what it opens, etc. and so on.
So the fact that the HTC Hero is now coated not only in Teflon on all it’s physical case covering bits, but also has a fingerprint-resistant screen coating, probably much like the [wait while we dig into our pockets for the piece of paper we scribble this on while researching the iPhone 3G S] oleophobic coating found on the iPhone 3G S. Fantastic, we think, as we scratch our slightly greasy beard, wondering if it really is okay to shampoo your beard as that guy in the pub was insisting the other day. And not only that but the screen on this thing is a capacitive jobbie, meaning that – and you’ll like this – it pushes back at your fingers as you type. Magic. Oh, and there’s a whole bunch of other, less grime-related features that you can read about in this official product overview, or in this HTC Hero review. How this guy didn’t manage to get as excited as us about this Teflon news we’ll never know:
