[sanjsrik]

It's their "take" on the UI that came standard from Android. Think of it like a custom skin (sort of) that you can also modify and alter (to a point). For example, you can't have floating icons anywhere on the screen, you can't have overlapping icons, it's a very regimented look and feel.

Then, you get other homescreen launchers and you can change how things look, not how they behave, you can change what they do when you press or long-press on them. I know everyone says how functional and how wonderful the look-and-feel is in Android, I think it's very buttoned-up and the perfect example of letting the developers tell you what the UI should look like. This is always a problem when you let the developers make design decisions. There needs to be more thought-out UI decisions in Sense, but I'm sure I'll hear from many who disagree with me.

I too came from WM6x and I was a little surprised as how little customization was allowed in the screens. For example, can't even have folders in the applications page where you can store applications. The fact that it's taking until 2.2 to store applications on the SD card is mind-boggling to me.

Android seems like a garage experiment and we're all the guinea pigs. This, in my opinion, comes from the "open" architecture world mentality. Yet, it's really not or else you wouldn't have to root your phone to uninstall bloatware.

Again, all my .02 (devalued American)