I'm loving my new Droid Charge phone, but I'm hating Verizon for installing a bunch of crap-ware on it that I cannot remove. I accept the fact that when I buy a Dell laptop, it will come full of crap-ware.... but I can uninstall it, or reinstall a clean OS from scratch. Not so with my phone. I have 2 choices: Root the phone which voids my warranty and negates my insurance, or install a different launcher (Launcher Pro) which allows me to hide apps from the launcher. I chose the latter. It doesn't keep their junk from running their bad services and taking up memory though. I also installed Car Home which allows me to select my icons for car mode. This is the one that really made me mad. When I put the phone into my car dock, their navigation button went to VZNavigation, which costs money! WTF would I use that for when Google Nav is FREE and also installed on the phone. I suppose they're depending on the naive people to think that VZNav is their only choice. Come on Verizon, do the right thing. Allow uninstall of the crap ware.
I almost returned the phone on principal, but I need a good phone with a decent internet connection when I travel. Verizon has 3G damn near everywhere.
