[G1 Android Development] dipeshb:
Here's my take

For all you noobs,and Hero worriers I have a few points you may want to consider before going all heroic... This is my experience of Hero and my opinions and in no way reflects the wider Hero users...

The Good points:

The UI is slick, well thought out and intuative

Hero is almost a masterpiece in integration and inventiveness, for example you go to one of your contacts, you can see their phone number (obviously), address, email etc... but you can also see all your txts to that person, call logs, and even their facebook entries, all by looking up your contact.

Multi touch WORKS well in the browser almost IPhone like. Multi touch has also been integrated into the PDF viewer!

The widgets are very smart and usefull, the clock is slick, the SMS and music widgets are brilliant

There are many other tweaks and improvements over stock 1.5 which also makes Rosie and the touch UI a pleasure to use but the above are the star highlights for me.

The Bad points:

Bluetooth does not work

The LEDs do not work

LAG LAG LAG... As much as the very talanted DEVs here have tweaked and cooked this ROM (and belive me I am super appreciative of thier ingenuity and inventiveness) the G1 just needs more RAM, RAM that the G1 just does not have. Yes you can use the swapper to help with the loading of Rosie after you have been using say, the browser, but even this over time trips over itself, the swapping becomes messy AND when it becomes important for you to either answer a call or make one, you are stuck whilst the swapper is reading and writing to the relevant areas.. it is very fustrating.

If you turn the swapper off, you get the issue of the notorious Loading screen whilst Rosie re-loads.

I have personal experience of missing SMS messages.. I can not verify that this issue has been resolved with JAC 2.4+ after making SMS a high priority.. But I cant be sure either

Sometimes when a call comes through, it will not ring (via speaker) until after about 2-3 'rings'of the phone, and by that time, it goes to answer machine..

In Conclusion:

The DEV's here have done a superb job of getting an 85% working version of Rosie on the G1, and I have loved using it, it makes me want to have it for real, working flawlessly.. But I'm afraid it has some way to go, I miss my LED's flashing to tell me I have an e-mail or SMS message waiting, I like to listen to my music via blutooth on the train whilst playing Lexic.. I miss just making a call within 2 seconds when I need to... When I go back to Cyan's rom after the Hero, I am saddened by the Old look, but cheered up when everthing just goes snappy snap snap to my commands.. Cyan's 3.6 ROM pushes the G1 to its limits, and the ROM runs beautifully, I can rely on it... So in conclusion, I will have to, and have stuck with Cyan's Super Optimized rom.. I am in waiting for the perfect Rosie day, although due to the hardware constraints of the G1 i.e. RAM, I fear that day may never come and I will have to upgrade to a native Rosie device.. Unfortunately I am not devtastic enough to have a play with Hero myself, I can only comment on what I see.. I will probably keep trying the new Hero builds, I can’t help myself, but I have so far always gone back to basics!

I hope this goes some way to inform newbies of what they maybe getting into..