One of the first droids released: Different keyboard

[Doubledee90]

So I just got a replacement DROID today after having lots of dust under my screen, and my old Keyboard was way more bubbly than this new one, both are 39/09 build dates too...I dont mind the flat one, but it is much different.

 

[Nickster4512]

Got mine on release day and it has the bubbly keyboard

 

[Doubledee90]

i kind of like the flat keyboard better, its more firm...I suprisingly have way less typos then I did with the bubbly keyboard.

 

[Aldo Junior Ao2]

I have the bubbly keyboard and i think i fly with these keys. But i have never tried the flat maybe its better or worse. But i can't complain about the keys. Bubbly FTW.

 

[rjoudrey]

This thread sounds like a champagne commercial.

 

[zyxwvu44]

my keyboard keeps getting more bubbly over time. im really liking it now though, feels more like my old curve 8320

 

[dankvwguy]

ive been noticing over the past week or 2 as i run into more droid owners that a lot of the flat keyboarders, if not all of them, have very blueish/purpleish backlighting on the back/menu/home/search keys where as mine, a bubbly keyboard, are completely white with no other color present.

why would motorola allow such a drastic difference in manufacturing!!! as dumb as it is, i might email them. i just want to know why, even though its not a big deal. I just fear receiving a flat keyboard one if i ever need a replacement

 

[PetiePal]

I have seen raised bubbled keyboards and I would much rather have had that then the flat. Maybe in Droid 2 eh?

 

[tangomango]

Ugh, you guys think I would be able to exchange one for a bubbly keyboard one?

I got my current phone Feb 7th...so I'm still under the 30 day warranty, but I sent in the box UPS code for rebates, etc.

Anything I can do?

 

[PetiePal]

I think the bubbly ones were the initial releases right?

 

[dankvwguy]

I think the bubbly ones were the initial releases right?

i thought that but mine was made 49/09 and its bubbly. my aunts was made 39/09 and its flat. another coworker has a 51/09 and hers is flat. So ive seen and older and new phone have a flat keyboard with mine, made between theirs, being bubbly

 

[PetiePal]

Well that's obnoxious lol I would have liked a bubbly one...or at least for them to keep them all the same ;P

 

[dankvwguy]

ya, thats why im so confused as to why such a large design difference would allow

 

[longball10]

My fiance just got her Droid yesterday and her keyboard is definately flat with a blueish tint backlighting.. Hers was manufactured 1/10 and mine was a 39/09 and I def have the bubbled keys..

 

[soccerdude21490]

okay good so it's supposed to be like that? I thought my droid was broken or something.. cause sometimes it feels like it's so raised so much that it's off the internal keys... buuut guess it's not broken... just different!

 

[dankvwguy]

ya, they must have 2 makers of these phones entirely. pretty stupid if u ask me. having half your customers complaining about the keyboard while the other half doesnt understand wat the others a bitching about

 

[neumannator]

i bought mine the day they came out and i have the raised ones. weird! i was gonna get a different one and they were flat so i stayed with the one i had bhahahahahha

 

[dankvwguy]

thats my plan. my camera has some issues from time to time where it takes super bright pictures at times and super dark ones (like it flashes to late/early). it hasnt happened in a week or so but its very very annoying wen ur trying to get a quick picture of something.

i dont want to trade it in and end up flat...

 

[HaunteD CoucH]

ya, they must have 2 makers of these phones entirely. pretty stupid if u ask me. having half your customers complaining about the keyboard while the other half doesnt understand wat the others a bitching about

Does the bubbly one really make that much of a difference?

 

[dankvwguy]

Does the bubbly one really make that much of a difference?

Having used both of them ya it does. I had a lot harder time typing on the flat one.

U can see from other responses in the thread that I'm not the only one

 

[HaunteD CoucH]

do you have a picture of yours bychance?

 

[dankvwguy]

do you have a picture of yours bychance?

Not at the moment but I will post one in the morning

 

[HaunteD CoucH]

Not at the moment but I will post one in the morning

k cool, it would be sweet to get my hands on a bubbly one if they make that much of a difference in typing

 

[dankvwguy]

I can't see the picture of mine being any different from the bubbly ones previously posted. Come Monday ill try and get one of mine beside my co owrkers

 

[HaunteD CoucH]

I can't see the picture of mine being any different from the bubbly ones previously posted. Come Monday ill try and get one of mine beside my co owrkers

yea, no worries I just wanted to see some other pics of bubbly keyboarded Droids