of course the 2.1 builds are unoptimized for the droid, they are designed for different hardware. most of the 2.1 builds i've seen are basically happy with everything working and don't get around to spending a lot of time optimizing it.
running the latest 2.0.1 sholes rom (they updated it recently) the new app drawer moves much smoother than before, could be due to the OC, or the larger swap file, or the optimization, but in the current iteration, it's very fluid and i like it much more than the old drawer.
the n1 can hardly be deemed a failure so quickly. all it needs is some marketing, a larger network (and thus subscriber base), and a proper retail channel (i am not buying a phone from google.) personally, those would probably get me to try it out.
but then, i just like having new things.
update: i do like the cradle now. hehe. by the way, who is gonna update manually again once this 2.1 rolls out? and whos gonna wait?
i'm holding off on all anticipation until we get a firm date or some kind of announcement from verizon like last time where they had a document explaining what was coming in detail. Then my friends I shall be excited. All this said, I'm actually working on "not obessing" about my phone, cause i realized that I spend A LOT of time either on the phone or on forums about the phone damn this droid, taking over my existence
Yup. So many co-workers believe that if you apply the update manually, you no longer get OTA updates. This is not true, they should have a Myth Busters episode on this.
That is what I was told as well, thanks for saying this. So I can root my phone and update to 2.1 and still recieve OTA updates?
I think I will wait for 2.1, but if I decide to root, is there a place where I can learn how to make "superuser changes" i.e the black notification bar. Or just a place where I can learn of all the things that can be done?