He says it's smaller. I wouldn't necessarily know. I tried pushing a stock XT9 keyboard to droidsmith with titanium backup but that keyboard immediately crashes if you try to use it. I tried to give him the awesome keyboard I use but it's light-themed and he wants it dark. I'll help him check the play store sometime for something he'll like since with the case he has, it's definitely difficult to accurately hit any key either on the bottom row or touching the sides, in portrait or landscape.
But yeah his phone's pimpin now with droidsmith 1.3. We've got the alien 3 ds kernel, powernap applied and clocked to 1.8 smartassv2, 3g optimized by 12/28/7. It pulled over 5700 on antutu so it's definitely much faster than stock (he pulled 4422 on stock). Responsiveness is superb and neither of us have managed to crash it yet. We'll let you know if we pull that off. He's not pleased that he can't run his live wallpaper yet but he's much happier with how the system is running now than with stock. Warp oem somehow ended up significantly less stable than when his phone was unstable on stock, which is weird for such a hyped build. I'm not sure how I broke that rom, but for the record warp oem fps-uncapped/unpatched gives some seriously choppy performance - very distracting.
If you know how to clear out noob rom's initial gray bootsplash without reflashing the whole droidsmith rom afterwards please let me know. I saw a default-bootsplash zip update on the noob rom thread, but I've messed up changing boot splashes before and I'm just not trying to bootloop a phone that isn't mine with an update that won't work.