To be fair, I've never owned a Motorola smartphone. I've played with the og Droid a lot though. At the time I had a Hero. HTC won me over with the hardware. The Droid looked cool, but the Hero just felt better in my hand. I didn't even know what Sense was when I bought my Hero. After using it for a full year, I was hooked. Played with friends and families devices running motoblur but was never impressed. I now have my Evo 4g and don't mind that I have to wait until October 2012 for an upgrade. Especially now that 2.3 has been pushed out. Sense widgets are the best looking I have seen. They look and feel polished and kind of futuristic, but not in a cheesy kind of way. I do wish they had more options for customizing the messaging and mail widgets. I like them but use Handcent for texting. Don't get me started on the crappy widget for Handcent. HTC won me over with the look and feel of their hardware and kept me with Sense. Plus they have really done a great job on updates over all. Things got bumby with the Hero 2.1 update, but they have rebounded well with the Evo 4g...two mmajor updates in less then 12 months! What other phone manufacture has done that? That is actually a feather in Sprints cap as well. Both HTC and Sprint should be using that in marketing. Sure the Evo is done with updates, but I'll be very happy with my HTC Evo 4g for the next 15 months.