I'm not sure I want the Esteem as LG ****ed up on the M. It never worked as stock -- random reboots and the screen goes off at times. The idiots at metro tried to call these "features". WTF? Yeah, your phone suddenly doesn't work. Is that a feature designed to make me laugh or tease my brain? WTF? After changing phones more than 10 times, I realized this model sucks.
Rooting and ROMing helped a bit, but I got a new set of problems and compromises with each ROM. I'm sick of this phone. The one developer I donated 20 dollars to bailed!
What can I buy that I can put on the Metro network and run CM7 from CM7's own website? I appreciate all the hard work, but my phone has been shit from day one.
The only good thing about this phone is that I learned new things, met cool people, and caused me to want to learn to develop ROMs -- on a new phone.