[Hero CDMA General] twilk73:
My opinion :) AOSP is far better and makes the phone quicker and just in the way it works is better HTC Sense is pure looks and candy thats all.

1. The sense clock is nice looking candy but all the other clocks with sense are ugly junk. BW may cost a few pennies but the customization is far better.

2. Design and functionality are key, Looks are for heterosexuals and woman duh!

3. AOSP lock screen has more functions +++. You get charge status when pluged in you the option to mute, You get a nice big clear clock. Also the clock matches the standered clock with BW so its not odd and unmaching.

4. You go shake your phone and accidently throw it into a wall lol. Either way I only use two screens I dont even use the preview feature That hole feature is just a wast of time in my mind.

5. The AOSP keyboard sucks, the sense keyboard is inacurate. Droid X keyboard or Swype is the way to go. The Droid X is very accurate and fast, plus the spell correction is great. Swype is great in portrait for quick texts. Keyboards for on screen are just one of those things that only the user can determan which is right for him. Honestly if I had to pick one to distribute to everyone I think the Droid X keyboard coves the most ground and does what all the other keyboard do except better. Not including swype and shape writer in that coment.

6. Widgets... To many widgets is just eye candy for 1.99 you can get that pure widget that syncs face book, text, twitter, email and all that in one. Personaly I dont use it the only widgets I use are a PSN widget, BW, Pandora the stock AOSP calander and power options. The CM6 power options are good enough. Also I use ADW its free and its got the options I like. I was using ADW before I was using CM6 so CM6 was a match made in heaven for me.

7. AOSP dialer is simply the fastest dialer available in my opinion. One click brings up the dialer, favorits, contacts or recents. I mean why do you need to hit some numbers or type a name to find a contact when your favorits are right there or just going through your list is easy enough. Also, without even opening the phone app you can search your contacts. Did we all forget that just hitting the search button and typing the first name will bring up a contact you have. Try it. Hit the far button on the bottom it looks like a magnafine glass. Start typing in a name you have in your contacs and bamn you can call that contact.

Also the AOSP dialer eliminates the need for a favorits contacts widget or even a contact app. So HTC did nothing but over kill here. When I was using HTC Sense I used the Favorits widget and everytime I went to it I had to wait a second for the pictures to load lol, talk about a wast of time.

8. You have me here. Although I dont need this option all my contacts are people I dont plan to get ride of. Also I have an app called smart short cuts. It lets me make cool folder icons and or contact icons. And could simply creat a freinds contacts, temp contacts, favorits contact and so on Icon and place it on a screen or in a folder. I bought the app because I didnt want to look at folders when I could be using nifty icons I found on the net. :)

9. What? The AOSP calander app isnt pretty but it does the job just fine.

10. Your anaology is not a good one. If sense lends its self to Android se well then why is sense being repolished and also why does google intend to eliminate the need for a launcher with there next launch 3.0 or whatever. I guess that last bit is just speculation though.

11. I could name plenty more reasons AOSP beats out sense but really it comes down to a matter of what the user wants and not whats better. Sorry if I sounded a bit angry, I am just being a bit defensive on AOSP because I feel its the seperior product.