HTC Hero Running on Android 2.1?

We all know that HTC has promised Android 2.0 for HTC Hero but we just found something much more exciting and surprising.

Could this be really true that HTC Hero will run on Android 2.1? Several screenshots have been found of Android 2.1 running on Hero.

It could be that Google might be releasing a minor update to Android 2.0 before the end of 2009 and have teased us with that in the screenshot above, but there is still no official word on this.