How good is this phone?

[godwhacker]

Just thinking out loud here, how good is this phone, really?
To my way of thinking, this thing out of the box was nearly as good as my Omina1 was after 6 months of work on it.
And from what I see on the forums, it doesn't look like people aren't doing much more to the phone than slapping mobile shell 3.x on it and calling it a runner.
I know that's what I have done, and until I find any real faults with it, or I need to something more than the stock platform lets me do, I think it's fine.
How about you?