[Q] Is X10 closer to offering custom ROMs than Motorola Milestone?

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I thought I'd ask you X10 devs/power users this:

Out of the X10 (X10a) and Motorola Milestone, which do you think is the closest to offering fully custom ROMs including custom kernels, cyanogenmod ports etc?

I understand both of these have locked bootloaders which are making this hard.

I'm looking to get a pretty quick Android device with a high-res non-Pentile screen and my choices seem limited only to devices with locked bootloaders or some other flaw... it'd be nice to at least have a bit of future-proofing.

If neither of these devices can be upgraded by the community, is it better to bet on SonyEriccson or Motorola for long term support?

From what i understand the Motorola bootloaders are "perfect" in that they are unhackable (in so much as anything can be un-hackable, incredibly impractical would be more accurate i suppose) whereas the X10 bootloader is hackable and i believe it has actually been hacked at this point, but there are issues with the kernal at the moment.

So the prospects for the x10 are good, its no guarantee but fingers crossed

Thanks for the reply.

It's a pity Motorola went that way with the Milestone (and some other recent phones). So on the one hand Motorola is likely to beat SonyEricsson in bringing out Froyo, but then with the X10 it sounds like the community might be able to step in if these kernel issues can be sorted.

Love the screen res on the X10 and Milestone by the way - I'd go for a galaxy or N1 but their Pentile screens are a step backwards, especially at a time when competition is bringing out its "retina" display. Small text is very readable indeed on the X10 while fuzzier on anything with a Pentile AMOLED.

Here's hoping the X10 gets future updates, one way or another.