I figured I'd post my story after seeing so many here on these forums.

So with Altel merging with AT&T in my area, and with me wanting to get out of my shitty phone plan and upgrade to a smart phone, I took a look on craigslist for a smart phone. - Ended up coming accross the Devour, it looked nice, found some decent reviews on it, and sadly never came accross these forums at first.

I purchased it for 100$ and was going to use it for google voice until I could afford a data plan with Verizon. And thats where the problems began.

Started to root the phone, swearing that I saw somewhere there was an 2.1 update for Devour. Boy was I wrong. after hours and hours of searching on this forum and everywhere else, I was pretty devastated. Specially after hearing so much bad about this phone. Noticed that my devour, like many, was restarting at random a few times a day and just found the phone slow overall and not the best. I felt like I had wasted my 100$ and rushed into this.

I had found some hope here though, I noticed that alot of people where trading in their phones for a LG Ally, a Droid or at best, a Droid 2, the phone that I had originally wanted.

Seeing as I bought mine off craigslist, I figured it was a longshot to try, but went for it anyway. I went into Verizon with someone that had an account with Verizon who had activated the phone on thier account to seem a bit more legit with everything, and what a terrible day to do so, seeing as its iPhone release day. The rep was rather rude, was of no help, said that I could trade the phone in for a value of 20$ or pay 90$ for a replacement phone by calling X number. Heart sank a little to hear this, but I had one more idea. I walked out of the store and called tech support.

I had a hard time explaining the to rep how I obtained the phone and why there wasn't any record on my account for it. But after 40mins of convincing her and talking to her about the Devour I succeeded and was given some options for what phones I could get. I had pretty much the choice from any phone that Verizon had to offer. There was a small fee based on the phone, but can't really complain when you can choose from any phone there.

I ended up choosing the Droid X of course, what else would you go for? And this isn't a refurbished one, its brand new with overnight shipping. This costed me 140$ + I get to keep the Devour because of the inconvience I had with it and the bad reps that I've talked to in the past.

So overall, I bought a shitty devour, and for a little bit more I now get a Droid X. In the end, I'm pretty happy.