[BigDinCA]

Wow... this is a loaded question. The truth is the custom ROM is a thing of beauty if it's the right one for you. I built several of my own for the Mogul, and it was soooo much smoother and faster than the stock ROM from Sprint ever was. The biggest plus has always been eliminating the apps that you don't need. That will free up space and resources. I will say that I am still on the stock Sprint ROM on my TP. It's very fast and, using some of the tweaks that are stickied in the Upgrades thread, I have no issues whatsoever. Eventually, though, I will want to build one myself, or load someone else's, that has everything I want already packaged nice and neat, preferably with a bow on it. I am nowhere near the superGeek that I want to be with these phones, but it seems that most of the things you can do wth a custom ROM you can also do by manually installing the various CAB files and registry tweaks. Along with upgrading your radio when one is released, these apps, CAB's and tweaks make our phones the best thing around. One thing you can only get from a custom ROM that you can't get from installing various apps and tweaks yourself are the updated builds of the OS. Updates to the WM OS build, along with updates to WM 6.1, WM 6.5 and eventually WM7 can't be done without loading the ROM.