[HTC Rezound] jayochs:
it's not the same. they took so much out that it's boring.

the widgets SUCK. terrible choice. for example, music widget..all you get is an ugly 4x1 like the google music widget. terrible, ugly. i like the 4x2 widget in sense 4+ that shows the album art and is just a nice big widget.

second, calendar widget. awful. no longer can you have a fullpage 4x4 calendar. only 3x4 now. oh and agenda? yeah, you can only get a 4x1 agenda that only shows the current day. GARBAGE. oh and these aren't resizable like the ones in sense 4+...

home screenS? well, you only get FOUR. one is blinkfeed, and you can have 4 of your own. and you can't even switch the order...so you better make them how you like, because on none of these roms can you like lets say, move the 2nd one to the 4th position, etc.

there's no easy way to just add things to the bottom dock..you have to go into all apps, take them, drag them INTO the all apps to get rid of them. if you just drag them out to the desktop, they stay there and just create a second shortcut. and you can't go into all apps, long press, and drag an icon to your screen. nope. gotta hold down on a blank spot on the screen and ONLY add it that way. all apps screen is stupid too...they go from versions of sense since ICS that scroll left to right, to going back to up and down......um ok, that's retarded.

as for the launcher transition, they ditched cube transition and went rgiht back to stock android style left to right..for the first time since sense 2.1. this would be cool, if only they implemented it correctly. they didn't code in how sense 4+ did where once you move the screen, transitions take priority and all animations cease..such as the flipping clock, or the weather, etc. let's say you're on sense 4+ and you're switching screens as the clock flips..it will stop so the transition is nice and smooth. on sense 5, they undid that, so if you're flipping while the clock or any animation is happening on your widgets, you get a choppiness and drop in framerate, thereby creating an unsmooth transition...this is something that i alaways saw on the rezound before the ultrasmooth rosie mod came about, and it made me so happy that sense 4+ fixed it....and now they go back to doing it wrong yet again.

blinkfeed....it's pointless. absolutley pointless. if i want to see what these idiots on my facebook are saying, i'll open facebook. period. end of story. everytime i tried sense 5 i immediately un-checked that as my home screen. it's such a stupid, pointless feature.

the lockscreen...oh good, going back to using boring, bland features in the lockscreen. first off, when you use the stock messaging app and get a text, it no longer shows a nice, cool looking big preview with your contacts picture ID. nope, now there's a tiny small box on the bottom that just says their name, with no picture. i hate this, because the font is small enough that you have to pick it up to see who it is. i loved it on prior sense versions because i'd see the pic and immediatley know who it is from afar.

lockscreen music controls are HORRIBLE. it's just an ugly gray box wtih previous, pause and forward. NO album art at all. i LOVED how it displayed big album art in the same manor as the text preview. this just makes it look UGLY.

no more weather lockscreen, which is one of my favorite lockscreens

and why is the clock on the BOTTOM!? it just looks so wrong and out of place.

in fact, no more good personalization anymore either. skins are long gone, so you can't switch up the appearance. i love downloading user-made skins for sense 4+ and the awesome stock ones like graphite etc, look so good. yeah, no more skins for sense 5.

the camera isn't really any different..zoe doesn't work in anything yet, so that's to be expected.

i'm sure there's more, but i immediately went back to my nandroid tonight. i tried newt's sense 5 rom last night while i was waiting for joel to send a beta, and i hated it and nandroided...then tonight i finally get his, so i say ill try it again....and i just couldn't bring myself to even bother setting it up and running it as a daily driver. it just sucks. it doesn't look good and they made it way too bland and boring.

it just seems like HTC really took away a lot of the color in sense and all of the personalization via widgets etc. people say sense is "so bloated wahhhh wahhhhh" so now you have a crappy dumbed down version of it that people will STILL complain is bloated because they're idiots.