[tersoth]

I would ditch the hero while you still can. I have both a hero and a pre and I find myself using my pre more than my hero. I totally agree with you about the better build quality of the hero and the superior battery life, but I don't think it makes up for the slowness of the device and the usability issues it creates (try typing a response to this thread with your hero and you'll feel the pain). I don't think the 2.1 update will bring any significant speed improvements either. Actually the cdma hero got a firmware update to improve "speed" even before it was released (the european hero was even slower with all it's animations). I think they have optimized the software as well as they can given the hardware. Actually I got the point last week where I was so fed up with my hero I wanted to trade it for a windows mobile device. I landed up just buying one, and I have a feeling I'm going to use my new htc diamond more than my hero.