I use Launcher Pro Plus. I honestly couldn't see myself ever using anything else. I used to like the traditional htc Sense found in the Evo, Hero and a few others. Then I switched to Launcher Pro and I never looked back. As far as the myTouch version of Sense, I actually don't like it at all. The only thing I do like is the notification pull down has some good quick info, but that's it. I think it's WAY too skinned. The myTouch is already very fast, but I did notice that when running LP on my gf's MT4G it was noticeably faster and smother. I also love the 3d drawer. Which brings me to the benefits of using LP. Options. TONS of options. You have the ability change the amount of rows and columns on your homescreen (so you can put more icons on each homescreen), change the amount of homescreens you can have from 1-7 and even pick which homescreen you want as the main page, it enables landscape view for the homescreens which is something you can't do with the stock Sense launcher (HUGE plus with the Evo because of the kickstand), it has a scrollable bottom dock where you can choose 5 actions and icons for each dock (total of 3 docks), in the dock you can enable a missed call count, unread SMS count and unread gmail count if you have the dialer, text and/or email as an action on the dock), you can pick what the home key action is: Do nothing, open/close previews, open/close app, open/close notifications, show/hide status bar, choose a custom dock background, hide the top notification bar (think the Windows bar where you can hide it until you need it), hide the homescreen icon labels for a cleaner look, option of a traditional app drawer or a 3d app drawer, change the speed of the app drawer opening and closing, has 6 Sense knockoff widgets available with the Launcher Pro Plus (since you can't use the Sense widgets) including: bookmarks, calender, messaging, twitter, facebook, "friends" (friendstream), the ability to backup and restore your homescreen and homescreen settings. This is extremely useful if you're like me where you're always changing things up to see if there's a better set up. I've literally spent hours making my own homescreen theme only to go back to my previous. It would have really sucked if I had to remember what I had and where they were and set everything up one by one. Instead all I had to do was tap restore, then yes and I was all set. The only things i had to replace were the widgets. It'll show you where a widget was placed, but wont have the actual widget up. One last great feature is the ability to resize ANY widget. That's great when you need just one more spot to squeeze something in but can't because a widget is too big. Of all the features I listed, the only two things that require the paid Plus version, are the LP widgets and the widget resizing. But let me tell you, those 3 bucks were very well worth it and I would recommended it to everyone. To be honest, neither version of Sense (or those terrible other launchers like Touchwiz or MotorBlur) come even close to Launcher Pro. Give the free version a shot. I can almost guarantee you'll like it more than the stock launcher.
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