Burus

Simply put, from your experience of the G1, and your knowledge of the HTC Hero, which should I get?

Hero has Extended battery life, less weight, multi touch

G1 has a full slide out qwerty keyboard

I'd like to get in the deep end of applications and development, but I wonder if the HTC is fine for this? Consider this as an extra question, I'd like the overall experience to be good rather than just from a developer's point of view.

Cheers.

G8D

HTC Hero has Sense UI (which is sexy), is nicer looking than the older HTC and has the helpful little trackball.

Burus

Fair enough, I just hope the lack of a slide out keypad isn't much of a disadvantage to all the other pro's. Plus I hear the G1's battery life is shocking.