Does anyone have an HTC and enjoy it? I use an IPhone but I've had to opportunity to use both the Droid and an HTC phone and I only liked the Droid. The HTC seemed super cheap, almost as if it were designed for kids.
I actually like my G1 better than my sister's Droid. The keyboard is better and I like the physical buttons rather than the touch ones for Menu, Back, & calls. The droid seemed slightly laggy when flipping screens, and I also like that the HTC only goes to landscape when you push out the screen.
I thought the same thing about the "feel" of the phone, at first, but 13 months later, the slider action and buttons and overall function of the phone are as good as when I bought it.
My next phone will hopefully be another HTC with a keyboard that runs Android 2.0 with no visible lagginess.
HTC makes a lot of handsets so it's hard to judge them all by one model. I'm guessing you used the Eris which is indeed one of their cheapest models. I have the Sprint HTC Hero and it's a very well made phone. It feels very solid. I've had it about 2 months now in my pocket with no case and it still looks brand new. The oliphobic (?) coating on the screen does a good job keeping finger prints and smudges to a minimum. The back case has a soft somewhat rubberized coating that feels very durable. It's probably the best sounding phone I've ever owned. Instead of using a little pin-hole speaker it uses a ~1" wide strip. Not sure if this is all speaker or just a little chamber to direct the sound. Either way it sounds great.
Overall it's a really well built phone somewhat lacking compared to the faster models on the market these days. I definitely sticking with HTC for my next phone unless we happen to see a CDMA 4th gen iPhone on Sprint.
I just returned a pair of Erises and went back to the iPhone. It just wasn't snappy. For example, in the iPhone browser it really feels like there is a physical web page under that screen that you are dragging around with your finger. With Android, it's more like you are scrolling on a trackpad off screen. Buttons won't give feedback when the system bogs down, and the UI is really inconsistant. Some windows scroll past their borders like the iPhone, but settings windows don't. And since your always waiting for the phone to stop responding, when a window hits the bottom then stops on a pixel, it feels like a freeze, not the end. It's all fixable, of course, but I'm going to wait until it's more mature.
I've owned and used two HTC phones and liked both. However, they were extremely different from each other, so just saying do you like an HTC is very broad. From what you've said, I expect you might not like the G1 which is lightweight (though I personally love it because of the physical keyboard), but would feel very differently about the other HTC I owned because it has much more weight to it and feels more substantial.
