If you are in the United Kingdom and have been waiting for the release of the new HTC Hero smartphone on Orange, your wait has now ended as Orange has now made the HTC Hero available to the public.

The word of Orange making the HTC Hero available came yesterday via a Twitter which said the “HTC Hero available from Orange UK retail stores from tomorrow,” and that is all.

The HTC Hero is definitely up on the Orange website, and indeed when I checked by going through to the Orange checkout you can indeed purchase the HTC from free on a pay monthly contract as of today.