HTC’s latest Android phone, the G2 Touch, has been released on T-Mobile and is available online from as little as £35 per month on an 18-month contract.

Prospective consumers can get the phone from as little as £30 per month on Combi 30 with 700 minutes with unlimited texts. You’d need to add £5 per month for internet access via Web’n’walk.

On the other hand, T-Mobile’s Flext package gives £225 credit to spend on UK and international calls and texts and includes unlimited internet for £40 per month.

The G2 Touch, otherwise known as the HTC Hero, comes without a keyboard but with a 5-megapixel camera, HSDPA, a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

HTC has placed the HTC Sense UI on top of Google’s Android platform to improve the overall user experience. Orange is also selling the phone as the HTC Hero and is available in pink, brown and graphite.

Htc Hero

We may have scored HTC’s latest Android-infused device for a brief window of time, but if you’re hoping to snag one for keeps, you’ll need to jet over to the UK and sign away your cellular soul to Orange. Based on a brief but pointed tweet from a carrier representative, the HTC Hero will be “available from Orange UK retail stores [starting] tomorrow.” The phone is already up on the operator’s website in a delightful graphite hue, and the price of ￡0.00 on a pay monthly contract sure is luscious. So much for T-Mobile Germany getting a jump on everyone, huh?

At a press event in London on Wednesday, HTC unveiled its latest Google Android device, the HTC Hero, featuring a new user interface called HTC Sense.

The HTC Hero will be available in Europe starting in July and in Asia later this summer, while a “distinct” North American version will ship later in 2009. However, pricing was not announced at this time.

Like the T-Mobile G1 and Google Ion/HTC Magic, the HTC Hero has the signature curve at the bottom, but it’s a bit more svelte at 4.4 inches tall by 2.2 inches wide and 0.5 inch thick. In addition, it features a 3.2-inch HVGA touch screen with an antifingerprint screen coating.

However, the real beauty of the smartphone lies beneath the surface. The new Sense UI allows users to customize the device to their needs and give them more access to the information they want at a glance through widgets, customized profiles, and consolidated views of all communication with a contact, whether it be e-mail, text or multimedia message, Facebook status updates, or photos. In addition, HTC said that all of its future devices will use Sense UI.

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Other highlights of the HTC Hero include GPS, a digital compass,…