Originally Posted by
whitearrow
I bought the Thrive on a prepaid basis from AT&T to use as a GSM phone. It cost $7.99 to get the unlock code from an online service and rooting it was unbelievably easy -- I followed instructions on an Android Central thread. I haven't ever rooted one of my other Android devices, and I only rooted this one to get Amazon appstore access, but seriously, it was super easy. I don't know about flashing updates as it isn't a priority for me, but the root process itself is certainly do-able.
Great to hear. I have rooted almost a dozen Android devices, all of them were extremely easy, and relatively risk free.
Android is so much easier to control and administer, than a limited iPhone device that Apple locks down so much.
Apple's fragmentation also is a huge pain - I can't upgrade my iPhone 2G, 3G to iOS 4 or the new upcoming iOS 5.
My iPod Touch 32GB first gen is also left behind, no way to get after-market support to update to a new OS.
