As some people already know the Motorola Milestone is the international version of the Motorola Droid, the biggest difference being that the Milestone has a locked bootloader :-( whereas the Droid has an unlocked one...
For custom ROMs this makes a huge difference, first big difference is that Cyanogenmod does not support devices with a locked bootloader. And you really want Cyanogenmod if you're planning to use custom ROMs. It's the most popular custom ROM in the Android scene. It offers some nice performance and interface improvements. But not all hope was lost because of the best part of having an Android phone is that you have a great developer community behind it...
So thanks to Kabaldan and other great developers a port of Cyanogenmod was made for the Motorola Milestone!!
And as an added bonus Kabaldan's port was of CM (CyanogenMod) 7, which is actually Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)!! Now that I managed to get my Milestone to run CM7 the battery was better than ever, was incredibly fast thanks to the ROM and to the great overclock for the processor which made my measly 500Mhz processor turn into a 900Mhz machine!!
My Xperia was starting to feel like a bad phone, and it was sluggish in comparison, and it has a much better hardware on it! That just goes to show how much difference can exist when you have Android 1.6 (Donut) instead of the latest and much more modern Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)! But I wouldn't just give up on it...
PS: In homage to the MLB All-Star break (congrats to Robinson Canò for his Home Run derby win and the National League for the All-Star game win) here is a nice app to play a little baseball on your Android, is on sale and I like it a lot! Homerun Battle 3D. Hope you guys like it!
PPS: Thanks a lot for all the visits guys, yesterday there was a boom in the visits thanks to my previous post with the new Android Market app, if you didn't grab it yet go ahead and download it!
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