First week with the Hero, coming from the Touch Pro 2

[fowen]

I received my Hero last Wednesday and jumped on a plane Wednesday night. I was a little worried about switching right before going on a trip since I have had a Windows Mobile Phone for the last nine years, starting with the MPx200.

I went the first 12 hours on the original stock rom that came with the Hero and then after I got settled in that night I upgraded to 2.1. I saw a few nice "graphical" changes but overall with either rom I have not been happy with the performance. I have been told over clocking the rom will help so I was going to flash to Fresh Toast but after playing with it for an hour it appears 2.1 cannot be rooted yet.

Some of my observations over the last week:
- Exchange mail doesn't seem like it is "Push". Mails "seem" to be delayed compared to Gmail.
- Why is the email program different between gmail and exchange? The Gmail version annoys me.
- Lag is KILLING me!
- Visual Voicemail is awesome.
- Multiple contact sources, including Facebook, is awesome (but makes me need to clean them all up)
- Why doesn't the phone disable the touch screen when you put the phone to your ear and re-enable it when you take it away?
- Why can't you adjust the timing for the screen shutting off and the phone locking separate?
- When you enable the pattern lock why is there two lock screens? (the pattern and the slide one)

These are not questions (yet) just my observations. During the next week I will start looking for the answers because i am sure there are resolutions to some of the problems I ran into.