[transcend73]

I read above that the Op already made his decision and will go with the Hero.

Just thought I'd add my 2.5 cents anyway...

To me, the Hero reminds me of the Diamond. I used a Diamond for a year and it never really felt quite right. The screen seemed tiny and typing on the on-screen keyboard was always awkward. I seemed to mis-type letters often and became really adept at reaching for that backspace key. I also felt that the button on the bottom of the Diamond's face was unnecessary and wished that they extended the screen over that area instead. The Hero seems to have a lot of wasted space under the screen and I don't see the point of having a trackball on a touch screen device. The Hero's screen is only slightly larger than the Diamond's. Again, I think it would have been a wiser decision to lose the trackball in favor of a larger screen on the Hero.

Additionally, there's a post elsewhere in this forum where someone posted pics of a hero and TP2 together and the Hero is only slightly smaller than it.

From the reviews on the Hero there also seems to be some issues with lag when using SenseUI.

For these reasons I'd choose the Pre over the Hero.