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Old Mar 25, 2014 | 11:43 pm
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Originally Posted by bobert24
Add one more to the list of people who thought a physical keyboard was a must-have, and now thinks they're a waste of time. I went through some pretty crappy phones to keep a physical keyboard, only to find that about two weeks after I switched to a touch-screen keyboard only, there was no going back.
I'm just the opposite... after over a year on a Motorola Razr Maxx HD, I'd be willing to pay big money to get my Blackberry Bold back, primarily for the keyboard. I was good for 60-70 words per minute on that keyboard without looking. Just typing out a simple text message on the Motorola, even with Swiftkey, is painful. I carry around an Apple Bluetooth keyboard to use as a stop-gap, but I keep hoping someone will release a modern phone with the Blackberry form. I'm still jealous of the people in my office who are still on the old Blackberries.
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Old Apr 26, 2014 | 8:13 pm
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follow-up to this:
rooting the phone and installing a custom ROM (liquidsmooth) on it was really not that painful at all. The thing now runs Android 4.4.2. I basically followed this guide.
It's even faster than before (no wonder, since all the Motorola bloatware is gone) and the battery seems to last longer. There's a few bugs, though - it's not as stable as it used to be with the stock Motorola software but hangs every now and then (once or twice a day, especially when in GSM mode). And the camera doesn't work anymore.
But all in all, this proved to be a cheap and fairly easy way of extending the life of the device another year or three. This is my travel phone, and does not get heavily used - just voice calls, SMS, a few travel apps and some minimal internet browsing and google maps navigating for ~$8 a month in fees.
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