I'm not goingt to piss on you guys, but I am going to piss on Motorola and Verizon. I have an upgrade available, but nothing on Verizons horizon gets me excited. Perhaps the Targa if the rumors are true about it being the next Nexus, and the quadcore, vanilla Android, etc... But for now those are just that, rumors. And that device isn't coming out until Christmas anyway.
I rooted and ROMed 3 of my friends HTC EVO's over the weekend and now I want CM7 even worse than before. It's crazy how different the EVO is from the DX, it was like learning to root and ROM all over again. For one thing I learned that with unlocked devices like them you don't just flash a new ROM, there are also tons of custom kernels to flash as well to really tweak your device out even more. They get to have twice the fun that we do. It really helped me make my mind up playing around with those unrestricted devices.
The DX has been great, not slamming it at all. I've had fun with it and will keep it and continue to tinker with it. But I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of stuff that Moto won't let us do with it. I think it would be THE premier device out there even without dual core and all that other stuff coming out if we had an unlocked bootloader and the devs could really go crazy with it. But it just isn't going to happen. I've come to accept that.
Which is why I put in an order for the LG Optimus G2x last night on T-Mobile. It's a vanilla Android device and they're already working on the CM7 nightlies (was just released here in the US 5 days ago). LG and Samsung seem to be the two OEMs that are most interested in giving the consumer what they want (freedom... Samsung released a statement saying they absolutely would not lock their bootloader unless Google required them to). But I'm not a fan of Samsung devices, they don't get updated for one thing, and they look too much like iPhones for my taste.
And T-Mo is the friendliest Android carrier out there. I know they're going to probably be gobbled up by AT&T (such a shame), but I'll be moving to Canada before that anyhow, so I'll take my G2x up north, unlock it, and use it on one of their carriers. Canada seems to be on the opposite path as we are down here... more and more carriers are popping up instead of less and less.
So I'll continue to check in around here and see what's new for the DX. Like I said I still love this device and wish oh so badly that it were unlocked. If that were the case I'd definately be on it until I moved up north and had to get a GSM device to work on their networks up there. If it ever does get unlocked I'll still be happy because I'm going to keep it as a wi-fi only device anyhow. So here's to hoping that online petition and the facebook thing wake Moto up.
But I'm not holding my breath any longer.
