of course magic can hold hero firmware with a bit of porting of course, you can find them in xda-developers forum. FYI, apart from the 3.5mm jack and 5mpx camera Hero and Magic is virtually having the same hardware. In fact, in some instances you can use Hero's Recovery

lag - hmmm this is a bit subjective .. and also dependent on the cpu & memory load at that time. The way to measure performance, i'm using Linpack for Android from greencomputing http://www.greenecomputing.com/apps/linpack/

you can check the submitted results as reference http://www.greenecomputing.com/apps/linpac...pack-by-device/
you can compare the performance of hero and magic

some feature don't work properly ?? such as ???

This post has been edited by mikeeeee: Mar 16 2010, 04:39 PM

ok, the below is purely my own experience, others experience may differ

previously i was using MyHero 2.0.5(Hero Based Sense ROM) and it serves me quite well, everything seems to work normal, call, sms, LED, trackball lights, ringer, gps, wifi, bluetooth, data, camera and all.

Currently I'm using CursorSense 1.2.6.1(Magic Based Sense ROM) and its slightly smoother/snappier compare to MyHero.

only thing that is considered crippled is the Bluetooth File Transfer. As of now, there are no Sense ROM (cupcake 1.5) that support bluetooth file transfer.

about the lag, if you compare to iPhone then i would say yes, there is but its definitely NOT 30 seconds, not even close. To open up gallery is almost instance, but it may take 2-3 seconds to load all those thumbnails (currently i have about 50 over images and 7 videos on my sdcard) , to open a single image is almost instant

I've tried some 2.1 roms thats available, they feel even faster and snappier however certain feature still not fully available (LED, camera partially works etc etc). I'm waiting for a fully working 2.1 ROM then i'll migrate

Hope that helps

Like i said, currently all Sense(cupcake) rom does not have BT file transfer and i don't they will in the near future.

if u need that feature, u can use non Sense (cupcake) or anything from Donut and above...

haha, no worries ... those are android version codename

- cupcake =1.5
- donut = 1.6
- eclair = 2.0~2.1

Sense is HTC custom interface on top of Android OS, something like TouchFlo in winmo.

you will definitely get familiar with these terms once you get your Magic. Regarding when to buy, its entirely up to you man ...hahaha

good luck

This post has been edited by mikeeeee: Mar 18 2010, 12:37 AM