So I bought my HTC Hero with version 1.5 and HTC has been promising the upgrade "this month" ever sense i bought it 5 months ago. I essentially went with the HT

So I bought my HTC Hero with version 1.5 and HTC has been promising the upgrade "this month" ever sense i bought it 5 months ago. I essentially went with the HTC(which i bought from the US and had it shipped over, by the way) because they were more developer friendly than the rest. Sense UI is good looking, but i am not sure if its a good enough reason to stick to older platforms. Especially when the APIs on the older platform suck. Having said that, there are a few enhancements that are integrated with the Sense UI that are not in the mainline release(which makes you wonder why they're not). So its not a complete loss. The phone definitely has its faults from a design perspective(who's bright idea was it to put the speaker on the back) so for my next purchase I will reconsider where i get my set from.