[Hero, G2 Touch General] jman069:
@KmartBurrito

Here is Sprint's Developer website as well as info for both the Hero and Moment.

http://developer.sprint.com/site/gl...ies/android/devices/androiddevices.jsp#moment

The Moment is listed with two different Ram amounts so I think that's the reason for the confusion but I believe they have the same amount and the Moment also has more Rom space.

I just got my Hero recently and have every intent of getting the Moment on the 1st or slightly before hand :) The Hero is well made as I previously had a Diamond (which other than battery cover) was decently made but the HERO puts the build quality to shame! I'm also not expecting the Moment to have as good a build quality as the HERO but that's ok as I also have a PRE which I got off ebay (which I like very much but OS needs to mature as well as the App catalog) has poor build quality in comparrison to either.

Photos & Videos taken from the phone look decent in a well lit area however I'm inclined to say my Diamond took photos that were just as good and yes, I'll say it, my pre takes much better photos but it also has an LED flash and most of the image processing is done via the chip inside which when the PRe was first released there was some to do about that so maybe HTC needs to catch up.

Battery also seems to be draining quicker than my Pre or my Diamond however I still have factory settings enabled (which I do on my Pre as well) but you can always tweak those to get more out of the battery.

The Hero seems very fast and I have not noticed any slow downs except for delay with the browser and I'm in a Rev A area where I work, but to be honest I only tired pulling up the web and loading one page without any flash or real plugins (a link from the app market was what I was checking). I should also note that I don't have any extra widgets loaded on any of the other pages or screens if you will so I'd imagine depending on what widgets you set up will depend on your mileage.

The Tracball is huge and bigger than on a blackberry Curve. I personally think the tracball wasn't needed at this point but my opinion may change. The buttons have a nice feel to them and overall are a nice compliment to the phone.

Texting is very nice and similar to the Newest Touch Input that are on some WM Roms (as I had one on my diamond on India Groove's more recent ones). The switching from portrait to landscape when texting is slower than I'd like but not bad and seems to be the only lag for switching views (didn't have a problem rotating with the market).

In my opinion the Ram issue will matter but as far as customizing the Android I believe there will be far better widgets and options after 1.6 is released and I could be mistaken but I had read a blog stating there was a lot of anticipation for 1.6 as the writer was under the impression more and better widgets would follow.

If I had to stick with this phone (and my Pre for when I get bored) then I don't think I'd have any real problems as it is a nice phone and maybe it's just because I've never seen or used Android until now but There's a lot you can do with this phone and so far it seems Sense UI just scratched the surface and opened developers eyes as to what can be done so either way I doubt you'd be disappointed. Then again there's also snapdragon around the corner as well as the Arcos Phone tablet.

Hope this helps someone :)

Before I forget the Moment's AMOLED screen is capacitive but doesn't have multi touch until the update. Samsung didn't modify the software so the multi touch won't be there until someone adds it or until 1.6 comes out. That also means it'll have the stock Android keyboard but from what I've read on Lifehacker there is a free keyboard (either it's the same one on HERO or one like it) available on the App Market no rooting required.

I also believe the Moment will be able to be hacked/rooted and will be on XDA like other Sammy devices. I'm thinking since it's stock Android it shouldn't be an issue to gain access to it but again I just got my feet wet with Android so correct me if I'm wrong :)