if i was in your situation, and an Eris was offered
to me off contract like this, i would take it. but
then i personally don't like BlackBerry that much.
and since you aren't actually buying the phone
from a retailer, there should be no charge to use
this phone instead of your BB. even without Root,
i would still do it.
edit: you can always use this as a learning experience
too. since your contract is ending later this year, you
can learn from this phone to know what you would
want in a future Android phone. (if you plan on upgrading)
I just saw this 1 click method on xda. Is this really legit? It seems way too easy. What are some of everyones favorite ROM's? I'm thinking I'll be looking for something fairly stock looking, but, lots of speed and wifi tethering is a must. Although I did see a screen shot of one ROM that had the android gren guy and it looked like he was breaking through the front of phone...very, very cool looking. I'm so excited to get my Eris. I'm going to pick it up tmrw morning and then going to Big Red before I go to work at 1 to activate it
There's a reason they've moved to an EVO and given you the Eris just like that. If they're giving it to you for free, take it and sell it and use it towards a Droid 2 or something newer.
If you don't give a hoot about performance, then get the Eris. But then you wouldn't be rooting either.
A rooted Eris at about 740+ Mhz benchmarks lower than a stock Droid. You can get a Droid for free on contract, but even that may not be the best choice since you'd be stuck with it for two more years.
Here's something to look at if you're interested in Verizon: Welcome to our Wireless World
It's already at $179 and with a $30 discount on your next bill, you COULD see it as another $30 off the phone, making it $149. $149 for the latest and greatest. I'm sure there will be a similar in a week or so when the Droid 2 comes out.
All I'm saying is, you can do better if you're gonna be on VZW. Nothing beats free, though.
its actually funny you ask because i had the eris for about a year...liked it so much that when i switched to at&t i opted for the similar htc aria over the bigger "better (not)" samsung captivate...i say go for it! and hopefully you'll get froyo or some version of it.
Sorry, another noob question--When a cook says he removed the "OTC", what does that mean??
Running WW 4.6, and the Eris performs fairly well considering the age of the hardware. Its OC'd, obviously. But it was able to keep me listening to a 2 hour podcast, my friend using wireless tether via his laptop and iPod Touch (interestingly, he jailbroke it while we were in the car, lol), My Tracks recording our route and other information, and web browsing. The only time it went slow is when I had a weak signal which obviously only affected internet functions. It heated up like a mother****er (nearly 45 C!) but worked fine. I have never had the dialer lag problem, even with stock.Short answer ... NO
Long answer ... I'm rooted. Even with root, my phone doesn't stand up to the Incredible or even Droid 1. It's slow. To get it usable I have to overclock to about 200 mhz over stock, which is sure to decrease the life of my phone. I still have terrible dialer lag about 40% of the time. Navigation often lags, especially if someone calls me during Navigation. It sometimes takes two or three taps to get something to respond.
The Eris is a two-year old phone trying to run increasingly complex OS's. To even get the phone to run 2.2, you basically have to strip the OS down to close to 2.1.
I would pay money just to get to a Droid 1 right now. So I guess I'd rather shell out another $99 for a Droid than have a free Eris.
Running WW 4.6, and the Eris performs fairly well considering the age of the hardware.
So no, this phone is not complete crap. It leaves a lot to be desired, since it can go a little slow sometimes, but its a good entry level phone, especially if you get it free.
From reading through this forum and others, I've heard a lot of good things about WW4.6. Thinking I may start out with that first for my 1st ROM.
^^dunno my eris is pretty blazing fast on senseable with a 710 oc. the dialer lag I could do without but honestly its pretty workable. between favorites list and the recent call log i've only ever misdialed once. my CL scrolls flawlessly.
both market, k-9 and handcent load up with what seems like less than a tenth of a second lag, less if they're already open which is usually the case.
the incredible is the only other vzw phone I even care about right now, and it still feels like cheap crap compared to an eris. everything else is just huge, disgusting, and ugly (i'm looking at YOU droid!). if it doesn't fit in my pocket, its not a phone, its a tablet.
don't get me wrong its an older phone. but there will be half a dozen other new phones out by/around xmas...so honestly I think I'd wait and see, but we'll just have to hope that there are some more good offerings from htc. if theres another phone with this form factor and quality build, it would definitely be worth it.
thats all well and snazzy but have you actually done a side by side comparison? An eris gets beat down speed wise, no matter how fast you think it is. This is just the reality of the hardware.
I hear the Droid Pro will be 1.3ghz.I had a feeling you were gonna ask, there's a rumor floating that a 2ghz phone will be coming out soon. But when I say rumor, I mean it in the truest sense of the word. I have seen absolutely nothing remotely concrete (at least for VZW), just forum posts so I wouldn't even bother thinking about it right now.
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