Anyone seriosuly looking at the new DROID?

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Originally Posted by Ahbroody

Evo is cool and a lot of fun, already rooted, have flash and everything.
Galaxy will have netflix though and thats the closer for me. Just worried rooting will be harder like on the Droid x. HTC buts no blocks to rooting or hardly anything. Worried Samsung will be like Motorola. ALso physical keyboard again will be a win!

All and all Evo is a bad ass phone though dont get me wrong.

Originally Posted by AD720

I was a tiny bit concerned about the difficulty with the X being rooted...until I remembered that in all the time I had my Eris I didn't root it or anything. I did the whole custom ROM thing with my WinMo phones and while they were an improvement over stock the negatives always outweighed the positives for me. I need my phone to be reliable, it's a tool first and a toy second (but close second ). Anyway I think they will figure it out, now it's a challenge and I think that will drive it, also it seems to be a pretty popular device. I would just like to be able to use the WIFI tether without the extra $20 and to get rid of the couple of bloatwear programs.

If I was going to leave Verizon right now it would only be for the EVO.

Galaxy looks nice, love the display!

Rooting shouldn't be a problem for any phone that's popular. If you're getting something like the MOTOROLA DEVOUR (not sure who would ever buy it, given the other options available), then good luck getting it rooted. (knowing my luck, someone already did root and proved me wrong).... but anything with a big user base will eventually be rooted, whether the manufacturer likes it or not. My Droid certainly was.

Reasons I chose to root:
1. Overclocking - stock 550mhz, now I run at 1gz and keep pace with the new phones. (no battery life loss either)
2. Reliability and backup. I routinely make a backup image of my phone every few weeks. Anything goes haywire, I can re-flash back to working with little no data loss in half a dozen keystrokes and about 5 minutes of time while the image copies over. Only had to do it once, but it saved my but because I was traveling at the time, and like most, I would be dead in the water without my phone!
3. Free wifi tether. painless, works, end of subject!
4. Take a few bloatware apps included with the phone.

So far, no regrets on that decision. Of course, I'm not a member of the flash-a-new-rom-every-3-days-just-to-try-it-out crowd. I find what works and stick with it, I don't need the newest bit of code. I'll probably upgrade to 2.2 FroYo next week, which will be the first time making any changes since... probably March.