[tommy_riley]

I ended up buying the HERO today. So far I am liking it alot - have to get used to my fat thumbs hitting the wrong letters on the virtual keyboard and there are a few obvious minor over-looked missing things that I'm sure will be corrected in future releases of the HTC Sense and/or Android OS itself (example - not being able to change speed dial #2 away from sprint customer service (or at least I cannot figure it out)).

The OS and sense overlay both seem to be pretty stable so far - it's nice navigating around menu's without having the system lock up on me randomly (like the touch was doing) and it just feels like a more "complete" experience. Also feels more like a phone that has added applications and services. Rather than an operating system that happens to have a phone ad-on.

It would be great if the new release of android would allow for applications to save off to the SD card - instead of only allowing for my own media to be on the SD card. again, small gripe right now, but might be a bigger issue later.

The web browsing experience was MUCH better as well. With the HTC Touch Pro - the first few times I went to Bank Of America to try and login and save my username/pw and view the web site in mobile view - it took several tries to get everything right - and was a slow clunky process to get it the way I liked it.

With the Hero, the first time I loaded the page, the experience was completely correct - images, input boxes, everything felt like it was working exactly as it should be, usernames/pw's saved off easily and bookmarked and future visits to the site all working without trying to fiddle with zoom, mobile view vs regular webpage view, etc.