I just had to share a little in-store experience with my fellow Velocity users: I was in my local verizon store today to order a new battery (original crapped out) and was met with mixed reactions as the guy behind the counter saw the shimmering "VELOCITY" boot animation instead of ANDROID.
He first asked if I hacked the phone, to which I replied no (I consider hacking to be a modification of something to perform a completely different function than its original/intended function... not simply making it run to its full potential)
He then walked me over to the display area where all the phones are, more specifically their display model Ally. He rebooted their display and mine side by side and when the velocity screen showed up he said "See, your phone is hacked because ours doesn't do that, its supposed to say android", and I said "No, it's rooted with a custom ROM and theme."
By this time a small crowd of customers had gathered near me along with employees who were showing off the phones. One of the customers turned to ask me "why would you do that to your phone?", and I simply said "Because its functionality and appearance are far superior to what it could ever be out of the box." Not only was the customer intrigued, but the guy who was originally helping me was scrolling through the phone basically taking it for a test drive, uttering things like "wow" and "that's different", obviously playing with it... with a huge smile on his face.
A few of the customers had leaned over to take a look at my phone which was conveniently displayed right next to a stock Ally, and took immediate notice of the sexy UI. I began telling them about over/downclocking in favor of performance and battery life, as well as things like tether and bloatware removal. This attracted the attention of another sales person who began "over-the-shoulder" analysis with the other guy of my phone vs. the stock one. This went on for about five minutes before the original person who helped me had to get back to work, and the people who were oo-ing and aah-ing at my phone to go back to shopping.
I considered it a victory for us root/rom users. Not only did the phone gurus at verizon jock on it, but I overheard a few of the customers saying things like "why doesn't it just come like that?" and "that one looked so much cooler", not to mention it probably opened a few eyes to the true potential of our phones... not just the Ally but android phones in general. So not only did I make it known that verizon is not the master of all things android, but I also got my battery replaced
Just thought I would share this with everyone, plus I'm sure it's music to the ears of the dev's... keep up the good work, everybody is impressed.
He first asked if I hacked the phone, to which I replied no (I consider hacking to be a modification of something to perform a completely different function than its original/intended function... not simply making it run to its full potential)
He then walked me over to the display area where all the phones are, more specifically their display model Ally. He rebooted their display and mine side by side and when the velocity screen showed up he said "See, your phone is hacked because ours doesn't do that, its supposed to say android", and I said "No, it's rooted with a custom ROM and theme."
By this time a small crowd of customers had gathered near me along with employees who were showing off the phones. One of the customers turned to ask me "why would you do that to your phone?", and I simply said "Because its functionality and appearance are far superior to what it could ever be out of the box." Not only was the customer intrigued, but the guy who was originally helping me was scrolling through the phone basically taking it for a test drive, uttering things like "wow" and "that's different", obviously playing with it... with a huge smile on his face.
A few of the customers had leaned over to take a look at my phone which was conveniently displayed right next to a stock Ally, and took immediate notice of the sexy UI. I began telling them about over/downclocking in favor of performance and battery life, as well as things like tether and bloatware removal. This attracted the attention of another sales person who began "over-the-shoulder" analysis with the other guy of my phone vs. the stock one. This went on for about five minutes before the original person who helped me had to get back to work, and the people who were oo-ing and aah-ing at my phone to go back to shopping.
I considered it a victory for us root/rom users. Not only did the phone gurus at verizon jock on it, but I overheard a few of the customers saying things like "why doesn't it just come like that?" and "that one looked so much cooler", not to mention it probably opened a few eyes to the true potential of our phones... not just the Ally but android phones in general. So not only did I make it known that verizon is not the master of all things android, but I also got my battery replaced
Just thought I would share this with everyone, plus I'm sure it's music to the ears of the dev's... keep up the good work, everybody is impressed.
