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Do you use chomp or handcent?

I was looking at the searches for chomps vs handcent, but didn't see anything for the sprint version of this.

I am going to get a Hero very soon (switching from a Palm Pre) and so was just wondering what you use?

Are there any pro's or con's to using Handcent or Chomp? (battery life, speed, crashes, quick replying, etc)
 
I just dled handcent last night and haven't used it much. It almost has too many different settings it takes like 10 min to go through them all. The one problem I'm having is I now get 2 notifications, one from handcent and one from the stock app. I read somewhere that chomp doesn't support mms.


Go into the messages app and hit menu>Settings tap notifications and that will turn off your dual alerts.
 
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the reason people go with either one is that the stock message app doesn't let the phone go into sleep mode which will drain your battery. i used handcent and have no problems with it at all.

wasn't this fixed with the recent maintenance fix?

I'm thinking of heading back to the stock app, since Handcent seems to have an issue with MMS for me right now, but it might be an issue with my phone. I'm about to do a hard reset to check things out.
 
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the reason people go with either one is that the stock message app doesn't let the phone go into sleep mode which will drain your battery. i used handcent and have no problems with it at all.

wasn't this fixed with the recent maintenance fix?

I'm thinking of heading back to the stock app, since Handcent seems to have an issue with MMS for me right now, but it might be an issue with my phone. I'm about to do a hard reset to check things out.

Yes this issue has been resolved. No more battery issue from the stock SMS.

I used Handcent before the OTA update and then switched back to the stock after the fix just to see if I liked it. But now I miss handcent! The stock app is good, but not nearly customizable as Handcent. Plus I really like the quick reply feature.

I think Handcent is well worth checking out.
 
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Had been using Handcent, d'loaded Chomp yesterday. Just about the same, however, I can customize Chomp just a little more. I also like how Chomp handles the reply of messages by placing the keyboard UNDER the message so that you can see what you are typing in both the regular reply as well as the quick reply. The quick reply on Handcent was driving me nuts because the keyboard would cover the text box after you type the first line.

To answer the question....CHOMP for me!
 
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