Originally Posted by
Braindrain
Personally, for business (meaning tons of emails), I find a physical keyboard works best.
For home/personal use, I can tolerate the virtual keyboard.
But, back on topic. I'd choose any Android phone that has the form factor you like and is also known to be easily rooted. Meaning, you can update to whatever firmware you feel like.
Incorrect. The firmware or OS version, has to be made available or hacked by the hacker community.
For example, my old Samsung Moment, which had Android 1.6 and was upgraded to 2.1, is not supported by Samsung on 2.2. So the hacker community could not cobble together a 2.2 version without a base 2.2 version to work from.
This is why it is important to pick an Android phone with good manufacturer AND after-market support, to really realize the potential of the phone.