My Droid kicked the bucket today. It just refuses to turn on. Luckily, my warranty expires in 4 days, but this means I have to give up my beautiful bubbly keyboard.

Do they even have refurb Droids available anymore? The lady on the phoen was surprisingly concise. Took me 10 minutes in total to get transferred over to tech support and for them to realize I knew what I was doing and send out a new device? But still, didn't one of our regulars in this subforum leave because he ended up with a D2 after his D1 died? I wouldn't complain about that... (but I would miss you guys! )

Oh, and the worst part: Being back on my WinMo phone until Friday!

 

@AndroidsofTara: My D1 was in the same boat as yours. The bubbly keys were beginning to come up, and if you even slightly wiggled the headphone jack, it would cut out. But I still miss it!

Yeah, I realize I'm probably getting a refurbed D1. I remember a few months ago when the DX/D2 first came out though, they were definitely out of D1s for a bit. I'd rather have a D2 than a D1, but I'd rather have another bubbly-keyboard D1 than anything else. Well, besides a DX of course, but I'm not even gonna hold my breath!

 

My new Droid came in today. Gosh, living without this thing for two days was hell, how did I do it before?

Anyway, it's not a bubbly keyboard but I'm quickly growing acclimated to this thing. I may even be able to type faster with it flat cause the keys require such little pressure (though I am making a few more typos as a result of that)! Other than that, this guy is rock solid. It doesn't even have the headphone jack cutting out issue that my first Droid had.

 

Thanks, yep. The replacement is solid! Almost too solid, in fact. The only issue I have is the slider is really tight, but that's better than a loose slider for sure.

Yep, the phone's going back with UD 1.0 still on it. I'm hoping they won't realize until it's too late to bother. Considering it won't even power on, I couldn't do anything else to it.

Nah, I wouldn't have returned it for the keyboard issue, I probably would have held onto it. But I'm actually liking the flat keyboard! If you have thin fingers (I do), you can get a lot more speed with this thing because of the little pressure you have to put on the keys compared to bubbly keyboards. The only caveat is that if your fingers aren't so thin, you'll probably push down a few keys in the process. And it's nice not to have to worry about how I'm holding my phone when I listen to music.

 

Well hey, if you get enough defective refurbs and express your dissatisfaction they'll probably offer you a D2.

 

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Especially with the D1, everyone and their grandma has root. My Droid also has a few scuff marks. I dropped it on asphalt once, but that was several months ago. It was summertime, I believe. Hopefully they won't complain about either of these things. I'm shipping out the broken one tomorrow, most likely. I'll update this thread if they come after me.