Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
Russell Coker wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
CyanogenMod's a huge improvement on factory-loaded Android where openness is concerned. Were I buying a smartphone, I would make sure CyanogenMod fully supports the hardware and plan on reflashing it immediately. In fact, 'don't trust preloads' seems like a good policy with pretty much any computing device, where feasible.
However one problem is that you often lose features when doing that. Last time I checked there was a replacement image for my Xperia X10 phones which had the down-side of lacking camera support!
That would be the "fully supports the hardware" that Rick mentioned :P
Quite. Back when I first bought a laptop for Linux use in 1999, I researched hardware support very carefully and ended up deliverately choosing (and buying used) the same couple-of-year-old model that a bunch of kernel hackers had recently been seen using. Avoiding the shiny and sticking to the well debugged seemed a really good idea.