But I had a chance to tinker with my buddy's iPhone 4th gen yesterday. That thing is so refined. No stutter or lag whatsoever. Everything is silky smooth. To put it to the test, I even tried to scroll as fast as I could in slideshow mode through his pics to see if I could get any lag. Fast left, fast right, no lag.
Of course, this iPhone is 1 year more advanced than the Hero, but my Hero still can't view photos smoothly. Even with CM6, that's my constant complaint. You can't quickly snap a shot, and then go into gallery and view them fast. It takes literally minutes. It takes about a minute for even all the photos to load, and then each photo takes a few seconds to load up fully on the delivered Gallery app. Yeah, some of you say to use Gallery 2d, but that thing looks like it belongs on Windows 95.
I'm not sure what phone I'll get next yet. It might be the Nexus S (depending on the build quality) or the rumored HTC Knight. But I hope it can do basic things very well, like viewing photos without stutter or waiting.
I'm not against Apple. I love my 2 year old Macbook Pro. I actually like the iPhone, I just hate AT&T.
On a side note, this whole thing got me thinking about multitasking, and if we really need it. Part of the reason why the iPhone is so fast is b/c it doesn't allow true multitasking. I had to ask myself, do I really need it? The only time I think I might need it is if I'm using GPS and then listening to music at the same time. I think the iPhone might already be able to do this (But they don't have free turn by turn Google maps I don't think).
All in all, Sprint is the best option for me b/c of the $ savings. I'm paying less than $150 total for 3 phones on data plans with my family plan. That's about the cost of having 1.5 iPhones. I'm looking forward to an Android phone that can really hang with the iPhone in terms of speed soon on Sprint (without the extra required 4g thank you).
I feel Sprint's strategy is to force the 4G fee on anybody that wants a high end phone. Just look at the trends. The Hero and the Palm Pre are the only 3G descent phones. Everything that's been released after that (transform, intercept, the sony phone) are worthless when compared to the 1yr old + hero and pre. That's got me thinking about changing carriers for the 1st time in 13yrs with sprint.
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