I wonder how many of you are in the same situation as I am? Ever so close to giving up on the PPC series of phones.
I happen to have come to the game late, picking up a PPC6700 when they first came out, spending the required hours on pdaphonehome.com learning to tweak the phone. Moving obver to PPCGeeks as the group expanded. ROMs, flashes and finally kitchens. My phone was never the same for longer than two weeks. And yet it never quite worked right.
On to the 6800, and much the same story. Always waiting for that next flash, blown away by the time and effort put in by the guys putting together ROMs, and then still finding it's "not quite there".
I am a little surprised that the HTCs and Sprints of the world cannot come up with a better offering. I don't know if it is a lack of real world testing, or too much red tape, designers not talking to engineers. I guess there is something to be said for the closed nature of the iphone, it lacks GPS, and 3G and other tools, but at least it works at what it claims to be.
The more I flash, the less things I reinstall. I am now down to Slingplayer, eWallet, MSLive. Gone are iGuidance, games, Newsbreak, Skype, phonealram and countless others.
Here I am sitting on a 3.16 ROM with 6.1, and contacts still freezes up. The GPS locks up, screen rotate takes seconds, the screen turns on for no obvious reason, I could go on.
I am ready to go back to a phone that, oh I don't know, just works... Maybe I am just getting old, but the trouble you have to go to to get a tiny improvement in productivity from this phone is no longer worth it for me.
It probably is worth it for you, otherwise you wouldn't be on this forum any longer. But I wonder if someday you might get to the same point.
Maybe tomorrow will be the day I eBay this thing...
Probably not, i'll spend another hour reading up on how to improve it
