but bear in mind that HTC MIGHT drop sense UI for the gingerbread phone because google mentioned that UI on gingerbread is beautiful enough and no need other skin on top of vanilla android..
so depends on google and htc whether they want to put another skin or not

some rumor say this HTC Ace is HTC Desire HD..

HTC Desire HD (Ace) Features and Spec:

    * 4.3 inch WVGA Touch Screen
    * 8 Mega Pixel Camera
    * 1 GHZ Qualcomm Processor
    * Android 2.2 OS
    * HD 720p Video Capture
    * Xvid Video Playback
    * SRS Surround Sound
    * Automatic Face Tracking
    * Adobe Flash 10 Support
    * 4GB Internal Memory (up to 32GB)
    * E-book Reader Feature
    * Uni-Body Aluminium Design
http://blog.superetrader.co.uk/2010/07/15/...ures-and-specs/

Wondering how much people are willing to offer if I bring this phone back from US

Not really bad though but there are 2 issues irritating me, lag & gps, even with the Froyo installed its still need lagfix in order to get it run smoothly, gps is totally hopeless, not only hard to get locked to satellite but the accuracy is sucked also, but 1 thing i like is its gpu, playing 3d graphic game is really owesome, wont lag when playing the game, i hope desire hd capable doing so. Ya, should ask u how it performed? Do u play game like need for speed shift or sandstorm?