Recent content by Maximum Drive

lol. I'm coming from an Optimus V. While that had 4.x support, it was rather crappy and I always ended up going back to gingerbread. The only cool thing I like about recent Android is the Google Now stuff.

I'm getting that same vibe. A friend of mine had one not long after it came out and it seemed like a solid phone. And I've heard many, many good things about the keyboard. I haven't heard anything terrible about it, but I figured I'd ask here just to make sure before I drop the money on it.

Now, for starters, I know that this phone is over two years old. I've been looking for a good phone to replace my Optimus V. My budget is fairly tight and I can currently get this phone for around 50 bucks. I plan on going with a prepaid carrier. A physical keyboard is fairly important and I...

After doing some research I rooted my V and installed Harmonia. Better battery life is very attractive to me. So far it's run very smoothly. It's frozen a few times though. Nothing major though.

This is my first android phone. Picked up on Black Friday from Target for 50 bucks. I'm loving it so far, but being the geek that I am, I'm thinking of rooting it and adding a custom rom. Is there anything I need to know about the process? Is there any major advantage to loading a custom rom...