[Desire HD Android Development] KuroSyn:
Sorry for the long post everyone ;) I hope it's informative to those who are curious about some of these elements. ppaajjaa has some normal questions/concerns so I'm trying to address them.

1,2,4 - are known issues with R7, as mentioned earlier. Revert to R6.1 if necessary or wait till RB releases the next one with the fixes (hopefully) :)

3 - The idea behind Google's camera is that there is no auto-focus. It was meant to be adjusted manually by the user. Focus on what you want by choosing it by tapping the screen in the location where you wish to focus. This concept is more preferable by the general community of Google's Android users. I too am one of them and as such this feature has been implemented. This isn't a bug.

5 - What do you mean? As in you cannot save onto/read from your SIM card or phone memory? (because both of these features do exist)

6. It's a perspective thing. This is Google's original UI. It can be and is argued which is better. According to an ever-growing community, Google's original UI design is becoming more and more popular. They are continuously improving it. I love it, it is not confusing for me. It does take some time getting used to, after all, you've been on HTC's UI " Sense " for some time and now need to understand this one. Ultimately it will come down to your own perspective, whether you prefer this one or Sense.

7 - This is a feature that makes it much easier to browse pages. Instead of swiping back up to the top of the page to refresh it, type in a new website address, open a new tab, or go to another tab, all you need to do is swipe down or up once and the address bar pops up. This is for comfort.

8 - Don't know what you mean by that. There is the default calendar app by Google in the default ROM here. So the provider is there.

9 - Hacker's keyboard? so you're calling 3rd party keyboards such as Swiftkey a hacker's keyboard? Oo And this feature IS available in the setting of the default Android keyboard.

10 - Just as mentioned earlier, the " Re... ", is a resolution problem (we don't have a high enough resolution screen to display the full text) that's where the icons come in. They are universal icons to allow people to know what is what and are recognizable across many platforms. Standard icons with logical representations.

Re... = is in full Reply - click this to reply to the message using the quick reply messaging pop-up.

Read = this marks the message as read (past tense). This makes it easier for users to avoid having to open up the msg app to mark it as read. Quick & simple straight from the notifications panel. AMAZING FEATURE! One of my favourites! :D

Call = self explaintory, you can use this to quickly call the person speaking to you.

About this, I would like to add that it would be great to have this feature expanded to ALL notifications. Not just the top one. This is my only qualm :)

11 - Don't know about this one xD I barely use the camera and I don't remember the Stock Sense camera so can't say anything.

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Also keep in mind that we are dealing with an Android OS (Jelly Bean 4.2) that WASN'T designed to work on our HTC Desire HD. Our camera sensor, chips, processor, RAM, screen, etc are outdated as are their drivers. We were meant (but ultimately HTC cancelled the plans) to have Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 as the newest possible Android that would work smoothly on our HTC DHD. We are now delving into an OS that has far better features than ICS but at the same time requires more. More RAM, higher resolution, better camera sensors, etc. :)

Because Jelly Bean has been an extremely successful Android iteration, people want it, even us, who have an outdated phone, are keeping it alive by trying to JAM (successfully :D) into it an OS that has already surpassed its capabilities. RandomBlame (RB) as well as other developers on XDA who are working on DHD have done an amazing job giving us the LATEST Android OS for our phones and we're extremely grateful to them.

The Stock rom has a custom designed UI known as Sense made by HTC. If you found HTC's UI design favourable, then stick to it :) We here prefer Google's UI design and it's not because we are geeks. I've installed default Google UI ROMS on many people's phones and all are extremely thankful (thus far) but again, it's a perspective thing. There are others out there that prefer the HTC UI design. There are people that will argue that Samsung's TouchWiz UI design is supreme. But these are all based on perspective.

Lastly this is Google's CLEAN ORIGINAL DEFAULT OS. This means that their features are implemented, using google calendar, docs, account, and such is recommended by them. This is their strategy to get people to use the phone with their services. But by no means is Google forcing you to use their system THEIR way. Hence the Play Store and the ability to download openly any and every application of your interest, to be able to ultimately customise YOUR phone YOUR way :)