I must admit I do like it more now - it's A LOT crisper look to it in my opinion and has enough customizable settings, but not too much in which its overwhelming like I feel handcent was....
+1, as far as the choices go, I'm loving this phone more and more every day, mainly because each day I get it just a tad more customized to how I like it, my buddy just bought a droid and i didnt recognize the stock layout lol
Does Chomp have user avatars and what not? About the biggest functions I like about Handcent is the ability to automatically split SMS into 160char, forwarding SMS and saving MMS. Other than that I'm pretty sure Handcent loses lots of SMS so I would prefer to run nothing if I had my way but I send longer messages and the 160char is a deal breaker since these phones don't split them up by themselves which is just lame.