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that if there is no Pro2, 3, … Oh wash your mouth out with soap for speaking such dirty words! :O Then again, I agree that its successor needs a catchier name. How about Droid 5? :P At any rate, I'm sure good custom ROMs for this will keep this alive at least as long as the Droid 4 (it just lost mainstream support recently at 7 years old) and by then this outfit should have at least 2 new devices out, featuring newer processors, a flat screen option for those who prefer it, and keyboard layouts tweaked based on user feedback. :)

I have this exact typewriter. How did you get it out of my house?! :P But all the typewriters you've shown prove is that people will get accustomed to wherever you put the numbers, and that shifting them one way or the other is no crime. Also, thanks for the typewriter pictures. They're as good as cat pictures. :)

The amount of work that would be involved in making additional official updates to the OS is not nearly as great as the big brands would lead you to believe. The enormous proliferation of useful alternative ROMs proves that. I have an Original Droid with android 4.1 on it and a Droid 4 with 7.1 on it, thanks to smart people who wanted it done and then went out and did it, more or less for the fun of it. Both devices work very well. The big companies simply won't typically provide updates beyond 2 years because that would remove a major reason people upgrade their devices. If they could get awa

This is my feeling exactly, and as a Droid 4 user, a daily reality which I look forward to continuing on the Pro1.

Keep in mind that you have physically held the Pro1 (from what I gather in forums) and I have not, so I'm going off pictures of that. After I posted, I did notice that Motorola used wider number keys than the letters, and thought what a waste that was. At the end of the day, I think that most people will quickly get accustomed to either layout, as both are just variants of the traditional typewriter/computer layout. Speaking of typewriters, though, many compact typewriters didn't have a 1 key; you used a lower case L instead. I don't remember but I feel like that shifted the number row; I'l

I fully disagree with this statement. I realize that it is too late to make changes now, but perhaps a future iteration might offer a tradition screen with a bezel like the Droid 4 as an option. It would NOT be retro for the sake of retro. It would be SIMPLE for the sake of being DURABLE. I have dropped my Droid 4 MANY, many times, and never broken the screen. I have never used or needed a screen protector with it. The bezel protects it. I did have a Priv briefly with a silicone screen protector, and can confirm that they work very well. I will be getting one for mine.

1. Droid 4. No question the best, and I'm still using it daily and to post this. :) Obviously F(x)tec agrees since they all but copied it for the Pro1. 2. Droid 3. Not much different from Droid 4. 3. Palm Treo 650/700. I used both and really liked the keyboards (not much difference between the devices at all.) One thing I liked about it was it was significantly better with only one hand available than anything else I've ever used. D-pad made navigation a breeze. Also the screen was shaped such that you held the device portrait and worked landscape. I used the Treo 700 for talk and text (conc

I'm on a Droid 4 to post this, and Motorola made the same decision. The Pro 1 keyboard layout is nearly identical to the layout on the Droid 4. This shows that they, like me, believe that the layout Motorola used on the Droid 4 is basically ideal for the form factor, and not significantly improvable. I can tell you after years of using the layout, after many MANY years of using others, it really is the apex of phone keyboards.

All you should have to do to make it activate is to insert an appropriate SIM attached to your account. Your existing SIM from your old phone may well work, depending on the age of your previous phone. The real wildcard will be that Verizon is being evil and taking down the CDMA hardware at the end of the year, so all the devices which depend on it will cease to make phone calls, including the Droid 4 running Android 7.1 I'm using to post this. It's not entirely original. :) I was starting to get really worried about what I was going to do, because it does not support VoLTE, which will be t