[burtonsnow8]

It is not that the media functionality is gone without sense, but the feel of it being a media phone is. It doesn't do anything better than WM, it just skins everything WM to make it more touch friendly and "easier" to navigate (which the latter is personal opinion). Most of the media phones today try to put the most basic functions in an easy to access interface from 1 screen, sense is trying to emulate this by giving us different screens with highly used functions of the phone. WM7 seems to be further going down this path and is including more touch friendly UI.