Photon or Evo?

[acts]

Originally Posted by acts

Rooting is unbelievably easy, you could probably walk into a Sprint store and "borrow" their display HD dock to root your phone in a matter of minutes. XDA has people "renting" out docks to help others obtain root.

Also, to give you an idea of how easy rooting would be (and not needing to buy the HD Dock):

This is from XDA, but I've shortened it to what you need to do @ the sprint store.

At Home:
1. Install Superuser from the Market
2. Install SSHDroid from the Market
3. Open SSHDroid, and make sure it is listening on port 2222

At Sprint Store:
4. Go plug your Photon 4G into Sprint Store HD Dock
5. If someone asks, say you're testing and have interest in purchase
6. Open Firefox in webtop
7. Go to http://higgs.cygnusx-1.org/~edgan/pulse.tar
8. Open it instead of saving
9. Extract pulse.tar to /var/tmp

At home, or wherever:
10. Connect to phone via ssh at ip address mentioned in SSHDroid and port 2222
11. Type /var/tmp/pulse/pa_race
12. Type /var/tmp/pulse/install-su.sh
15. Type rm -rf /var/tmp/pulse*

Root.

You could literally do the dock file download @ the Sprint store in about a minute. Nobody would bother you while you test your phone on the dock.