Hey fellas. Excitement got the best of me and I installed 2.1. The LEAK, not the real thing from Verizon. KEEP IN MIND, YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO DOWNGRADE CURRENTLY. SO YOU ARE STUCK WITH THE LEAK UNTIL A WAY AROUND IT HAS BEEN FOUND. And YES, I would recommend backing up just incase. I did it using a free trial of a program called "My Backup". SO, here is a pro - con list of findings that I will continue to edit as time goes on, to help you decide on whether or not to download it. Feel free to post below this anything you find, I will add your input to the list as soon as possible! 
And if you are unaware, 2.1 with root is currently available. It's your call.
2.1 Leak PROS
-New boot screen, faster.
-Quick view of all home screens by pressing home or pinch zooming on homescreen.
-Highly increased lockscreen response.
-New App. Icons.
-New Apps. Include: Facebook, Navigator, Search People.
-Much improved Market, includes filters.
-Add to home now includes the categories: HTC Widget, Android Widget, Program, Shortcut, and Folder.
-Youtube App. Works and in high quality too.
-Camera has different interface and much better response times.
-Overall much faster and snappier performance.
-Settings menu now has color icons and different settings.
-For those of you familiar with the "Backgrounds" App, It now can save pictures to your Albums. Meaning you can use the pictures from that app as lock screens.
-Menu button still bypasses lock screen
-If you like the "pattern" lock screen, it now displays the pattern box, emergency call, time, date, and % of battery left when charging. When drawing the pattern it is also much more responsive.
-GPS seems to be fixed, my location is dead on every time.
-When changing wallpapers, you now have the option to use the Wallpaper gallery for both Home AND Lockscreen.
-New market has all those beautiful apps you wish you could have had before such as google earth and live wallpaper. Although live wallpaper is not usable on this leak.
-Many cool new widgets to add to home such as Power Control to adjust brightness etc.
-Not so sure on battery life, may be worse. Best get a bigger seido one and save yourself the hassle. I would say I had pretty minimal usage today and it left me charging my phone twice in 1 day. Down to nothing in about 9-10 hours.
-Google nav. works virtually flawlessly, tested.
-"Add HTC widgets" option is now available.
-Phone now has feature where when you pick up the phone when it is ringing, it will silence it.
-New Calendar.
-Faster loading of apps.
-Faster switching from Portrait to Landscape mode, or vice versa.
-Full Exchange support.
-Phone does not seem to send "Preceding message modified" message anymore when texting.
2.1 Leak CONS
-Reason for bad battery life is the phone is constantly on Cell Standby. To fix this, turn Airplane mode on, and then back off. You will have great battery after that.
-"Add HTC Widgets" does not seem to work.
-The silence when you pick up the phone feature can get annoying, it will silence in your pocket etc. It can be disabled through the settings though.
-Unable to use live wallpaper.
-Handcent is no longer bugged. Sends texts flawlessly just as it did before.
-My version of Swype seems to be force closing more often now. (If you download the Beta of Swype before it is gone, it fixes this problem entirely.)
-Pinch-zoom will randomly stop working occasionally. Reboot fixes.
-The 4 soft buttons on your screen will occasionally lag.
-Google Earth does not work.
-Occasionally when you reboot your phone, you will need to re-sign into Google.
-Some apps are no longer in the market place due to Dev's not updating them, you will need to download from the internet.
-Some contacts do not sync with Facebook.
-App drawer apps do not stay in list view if switched.
As you can see, the pros clearly outweigh the cons. Since this is a LEAK it obviously has a few minor flaws, but these will most likely be resolved when Verizon ships us the authentic version.
And if you are unaware, 2.1 with root is currently available. It's your call.
2.1 Leak PROS
-New boot screen, faster.
-Quick view of all home screens by pressing home or pinch zooming on homescreen.
-Highly increased lockscreen response.
-New App. Icons.
-New Apps. Include: Facebook, Navigator, Search People.
-Much improved Market, includes filters.
-Add to home now includes the categories: HTC Widget, Android Widget, Program, Shortcut, and Folder.
-Youtube App. Works and in high quality too.
-Camera has different interface and much better response times.
-Overall much faster and snappier performance.
-Settings menu now has color icons and different settings.
-For those of you familiar with the "Backgrounds" App, It now can save pictures to your Albums. Meaning you can use the pictures from that app as lock screens.
-Menu button still bypasses lock screen
-If you like the "pattern" lock screen, it now displays the pattern box, emergency call, time, date, and % of battery left when charging. When drawing the pattern it is also much more responsive.
-GPS seems to be fixed, my location is dead on every time.
-When changing wallpapers, you now have the option to use the Wallpaper gallery for both Home AND Lockscreen.
-New market has all those beautiful apps you wish you could have had before such as google earth and live wallpaper. Although live wallpaper is not usable on this leak.
-Many cool new widgets to add to home such as Power Control to adjust brightness etc.
-Not so sure on battery life, may be worse. Best get a bigger seido one and save yourself the hassle. I would say I had pretty minimal usage today and it left me charging my phone twice in 1 day. Down to nothing in about 9-10 hours.
-Google nav. works virtually flawlessly, tested.
-"Add HTC widgets" option is now available.
-Phone now has feature where when you pick up the phone when it is ringing, it will silence it.
-New Calendar.
-Faster loading of apps.
-Faster switching from Portrait to Landscape mode, or vice versa.
-Full Exchange support.
-Phone does not seem to send "Preceding message modified" message anymore when texting.
2.1 Leak CONS
-Reason for bad battery life is the phone is constantly on Cell Standby. To fix this, turn Airplane mode on, and then back off. You will have great battery after that.
-"Add HTC Widgets" does not seem to work.
-The silence when you pick up the phone feature can get annoying, it will silence in your pocket etc. It can be disabled through the settings though.
-Unable to use live wallpaper.
-Handcent is no longer bugged. Sends texts flawlessly just as it did before.
-My version of Swype seems to be force closing more often now. (If you download the Beta of Swype before it is gone, it fixes this problem entirely.)
-Pinch-zoom will randomly stop working occasionally. Reboot fixes.
-The 4 soft buttons on your screen will occasionally lag.
-Google Earth does not work.
-Occasionally when you reboot your phone, you will need to re-sign into Google.
-Some apps are no longer in the market place due to Dev's not updating them, you will need to download from the internet.
-Some contacts do not sync with Facebook.
-App drawer apps do not stay in list view if switched.
As you can see, the pros clearly outweigh the cons. Since this is a LEAK it obviously has a few minor flaws, but these will most likely be resolved when Verizon ships us the authentic version.
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Flashes no image very quickly. Ok...scratch that. Appears it's working now. Just had to attempt the install several times.
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