[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
My point EXACTLY!

And lets not forget HTC's past: released Windows Mobile devices with Qualcomm chips that had Imageon graphics but refused to release drivers, thus crippling them; EVO had the worst backlight bleed I've ever seen on any device and it took me four of them to get one that had the "good" (non-yellow) LCD; bootloader is locked and without someone leaking the engineering HBOOT, there is no way in hell you're going to get custom ROMs (eventually those HBOOT leaks are gonna get plugged); terrible drivers - I've seen phons with the same specs outperform the HTC version up to 25% because of the crappy drivers that HTC codes; cameras are always the cheapest CMOS cameras around - it costs them less than 25 bucks for their cameras and they have a long auto-focus and shutter delay which causes you to lose the picture many times.

Now for Qualcomm: Ridiculous power consumption, laggy graphics across the board despite whatever they quote (perfect example - the Adreno 205 in the Inspire 4G seems a good bit faster than the previous Adreno 200 in the EVO, however, there are textures that are missing and any and all anti-aliasing seems to be turned off - I've run them side by side (my Inspire 4G and my G2x) and the G2x not only spanks the Adreno core by a LARGE amount but it renders all textures and the anti-aliasing is beautiful), total monopoly on the mobile chipset market (especially as long as CDMA exists) means they rest on their laurels much like AMD did when they came out with their Intel-smashing chips - look what happened to AMD after that.

Now for nVidia: Developer support is the highest of any of the chipsets out there because of their strong desktop presence, Tegra 2 chip has not fully realized its potential yet because it still hasn't been fully optimized and nVidia admits this - anybody that has ever had an nVidia desktop graphics chip knows that the card comes out, has good-great performance and then suddenly nVidia drops a bomb and the drivers improve so much that 25-50% gains are seen in certain functions of the video - not to mention that Android can't make full use of dual-core in its current form (someone should compile an SMP kernel and see if that improves performance though I am betting that Android is coded so differently that it won't do much).

LG: Unlocked bootloader, has a fairly decent track record with updates, tends to have better drivers, no custom UI to bog down the system, has their hands dipped in all sorts of electronics devices and thus has a lot of experience under their belts to bring to the ring, cameras are both AMAZING...

Point is - you make the decision that you want to make. But let me ask you this - is there a Qualcomm Zone with apps that only run on Qualcomm chips? Nope. nVidia sure has one though and the games are nothing short of breath-taking - I would say the graphics on Dungeon Defender HD rival what they would look like on my PSP fat. There is hardly any lag out of the box (I have yet to remove anything from my phone, I just rooted it in case I decide I need/want a custom ROM... Every other phone I've ever had has had so much lag out of the box (Captivate/Vibrant/Fascinate/Epic 4G/any other Galaxy S anyone?) that I would have returned it immediately without a custom ROM.

Final point - Cyanogen has this phone. While I am not a fan of most Cyanogen ROMs, it probably has more to do with the porting to devices that Cyanogen doesn't have than any issues Cyanogen caused. I've played with direct Cyanogen team builds and they far overshadow the bastardized cousins the other devices get.

The locked bootloaders are just going to get worse as time goes on and while devs love a challenge, eventually they're just going to get fed up and take a donation thread to crack it (seen it too many times to count).

Now can someone please make a kernel so I can put linux on here? :D

And Graffix - the only thing I miss from the MT4G to this phone is ... well nothing really. I would like to have the Nuance software back for voice commands but that's about it. There is no comparison of the two devices.