Agree. I am also on a CDMA Hero. I rooted to get to 2.1 when Sprint did not initially provide OTA updates and only had Win/Mac paths for upgrade. Rooted and ne

Agree. I am also on a CDMA Hero. I rooted to get to 2.1 when Sprint did not initially provide OTA updates and only had Win/Mac paths for upgrade. Rooted and never looked back. I went for a Sense-ified 2.1 build. Finally went AOSP to get to 2.2 and it feels like a new phone. It is so much smoother without the lag on user actions that I was seeing before (most notably going to/from phone/dialer/answering use). I'll probably never buy another phone that is not rootable at the time of purchase, and I won't run a carrier-modified (ala Sense, etc) build either. AOSP is near-perfect. I do miss visual voicemail, but I think there are workarounds documented on xda (I can't really be bothered to investigate, so I suppose that it is not bothering me too much).