I have had the
CDMA hero for about three weeks now. And while this is my first smart/ touchscreen phone, I can say I am pleased with it, and co-workers with similar devices like mine better... even one dude with a broken screen iphone

anyway, even not having a physical keyboard like the Pre, it is still nice, the virtual one is good and predicts fairly accurately, although I am still getting used to it. It does suck when typing into a google search field because it will not auto correct there. I have spent some time with the pre as well its really really nice as well but its not really that masculine IMO if that is important to you.