I'm not a fan of trackballs, so the HTC Passion might actually be an improvement upon the physical form of the Nexus One in my opinion. It'll be interesting to see how the Sense UI integrates with Android 2.1, since I'm assuming that they'll update it before releasing the new phone.
Has anyone played extensively with both the Sense UI and regular Android? How do they compare?
Many feel that HTC's Sense UI is the way Android should be experienced. I've never played with the Hero, so I can't agree or disagree, but I will say that Sense is quite a bit prettier than any version of Android, with the possible exception of 2.1 (killing the shade helped a lot).
Given the Bravo's hardware specs, it's easily considered a flagship phone, which makes it altogether rather likely that Sense will indeed be sitting atop Android 2.1.
Sense is really excellent. It's probably not fair to compare a Hero to a G1, but that's the only stock Android phone I've played with. Sense on the Hero is a massive upgrade - it's so much more graphically appealing.
And I'm kind of a fan of the glowing trackball. I'm not too sure how I feel about this. The N1 has 512/512mb, right? So this guy has a slight reduction in available RAM.
The Moment has the optical trackpad and I much prefer it over the BB ball interface. It took a little getting used to over my old Vogue/Touch's DPad-only setup, but I really like it now.
As somebody who just had to dismantle his Bold to clean the trackball which had stopped rolling in the upward direction, just say no to trackballs. Optical or d-pads, or gtfo.
I don't actually USE the trackball for navigation -- that's what the screen is for -- but on the Hero, it lights up in a brilliant white pulse every couple of minutes as a notification that you've missed some kind of event. For some completely ridiculous and silly reason, I love it.
I say d-pads because they're vastly more reliable than a trackball, and if they're not going to use an optical trackpad, it might as well be a d-pad (Droid). It's irritating as hell to position a cursor accurately without something like that, though, that's for sure.
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Has anyone played extensively with both the Sense UI and regular Android? How do they compare?
Given the Bravo's hardware specs, it's easily considered a flagship phone, which makes it altogether rather likely that Sense will indeed be sitting atop Android 2.1.
And I'm kind of a fan of the glowing trackball. I'm not too sure how I feel about this. The N1 has 512/512mb, right? So this guy has a slight reduction in available RAM.
And d-pads? Come on. No way.