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To do anything fun with your phone you'll have to root it anyway, right? I think there'll always be people at xda-developers porting the last great thing back to your phone, with or without HTC's latest sense, so it shouldn't factor too much in your decision... if you want the latest Android, you can get it.

But that said, working on the Diamond where I've tried XDAndroid 2.1, 2.0.1 and 1.6, I'm pretty willing to stick with 1.6 for speed. Just have to fix some bugs in bluetooth and other things that somehow work in 2.0.1 but not 1.6. Latest is not always greatest when it's being developed on phones with 2x the processor and RAM...