What??? Didn't Magic,Dream, G1 have 2.1 till now??
I appreciate Spica more now
LOL a small clarification...2.1 existed on HTC phones for a while now. There was OpenEclair(posted screenies in earlier posts *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=122921&page=4), SuperEclair, King's ROM and a couple of ROMs on Sense UI. But no one does it better than Cynogen

. HE is a ROM god!
In fact this ROM is so good that now I am having second thoughts about buying a new Android phone

. I doubt if an official ROM from HTC (for Magic) can better this.
My take:
-Very fast; almost fliud like (faster than 1.6

); thanks to new kernel #2.6.33
-Animated GIFs
-percentage battery indicator on the battery icon
-Push implementation of Microsoft Exchange mail; (must for me to access office mail)
-wifi though proxy (again a blessing for me since internet access in my office is through proxy servers)
-ability to switch on/off app2sd
*img217.imageshack.us/img217/2181/app2sd.png
-great implementation of multitouch
-new gallery which is actually fast;syncs Picasa and Blogspot accounts
*img33.imageshack.us/img33/8392/gallerypo.png
*img718.imageshack.us/img718/641/abouti.png
@FillVoid Is Google Map as live wallpaper working for you?
Edit: It works
*img693.imageshack.us/img693/5649/mapw.png