Looks like EngMo has more or less confirmed the HTC Hero for Sprint. Unless, of course, the image above is a complete photoshop, which we doubt since Hesse has pretty much confirmed that the Hero is coming to Sprint. We’ll know more later, maybe tomorrow, if the Hero will launch on October 11.
It is real, here is an earlier snapshot of the page in question.
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/8877/htchero.jpg
Note that the page’s title has been changed to simply HTC now.
Here is Google cache but they took off the (sprint) of the site.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Ahtc.com+%22htc+hero+sprint%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=