I have had my Samsung Moment since around Thanksgiving 2009. It came with Android 1.5 initially and was my first smartphone. I played with it quite a bit at first, but after the first few months the novelty mostly wore off. I fell into a pattern of using it for its browser, email, twitter (mostly reading tweets not tweeting myself.) and occasionally for taking photos. Battery life was pretty dismal which actually discouraged me from using it because I would rather not have a dead phone by the afternoon. Sometime in the spring it got updated to 2.1 which was sort of a let down to be honest. Most things were just as they were. There were a few more options as far as apps, and a nice new unlock screen, but that about covers it. standard 2.1 stuff was left out by Sprint. I guess they had their reasons. About a month ago I decided I wanted to try to do some deeper customization. These phones are like little computers. If I could install Ubuntu on my laptop why couldnât I do something similar on this phone.  Android is basically a Linux distro for mobile phones. Anyway long story short - rooted it and installed custom ROM with the help of sdx-developers. I actually had some reasons for work that prompted this move, but those arenât so relevant here. The phone is awesome again. A couple new features and capabilities come with root access that only geeks will appreciate, and all the bloatware that I never used and couldnât get rid of was gone, but the most useful aspect is the dramatically improved battery life. Now a full day of heavy use is no problem. Two full days is pushing it a bit, but I do it from time to time. The wireless tethering is slick and actually useful when traveling. (did I mention I am not paying Sprint for this feature? ⌠donât tellâŚ) It comes with some consequences. The occasional random reboot or flickery screen, but so far they havenât really interrupted anything I needed to do. reboot is faster than it used to be too. Overall the stability isnât really a hit, because the phone wasnât glitch free before anyway. What is cool is that these now âoldâ phones (Sprint tweeted they were done providing updates for the Moment 6-7 months after it was released!) can continue to be very useful because of an active developer/hacker community. I do encounter these longings to have the latest greatest devices, but I am also beginning to see much more challenge/fun/value in being able to keep lower end hardware useful through better software. The more I have a smartphone the less I want to be without one. It is interesting how my computer usage habits are changing because of it. Maybe a topic for another post.