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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • Blur looks just as God-awful as I remembered it.  With 3G and a locked bootloader, if you’re dumb enough to buy this insult to the OG Droid, then you get what you deserve.  I’m not ragin’ but only those of us who owned the OG Droid can understand this.

  • i took the gamble and just ordered the phone and beat the 415 fedex overnight limiit so i’ll be getting it tomorrow… i wanted the bionic wanted to wait for the nexus 3 to see if it was coming on vzw but i needed a phone and wasn’t ready to give up on keyboards yet… push comes to shove next yr when droid4 lte comes out i’ll break bread and buy it. hopefully with everyone jumping to lte the 3g line will see less congestion…

  • Needs less of this crap and more close up pictures of the screen vs. a nice screen.  So Kellex, you gonna have one of these D3’s in your grubby little hands this weekend for some droid-life reviewage?

  • Now that’s Moto Blur I can live with. I hope the Bionic has this new Moto Blur. I like the 3D affect and shading. I can’t wait for the Bionic. 4G is a must for me.

  • I wish it had stock Android, but I really… really want this phone. Nobody’s a worthy successor to my OG though 🙁

  • I am not very impressed. But not totally disappointed. Blur is definitely lagging this phone up. Do you notice how they also wait a couple seconds before running processes…memory problems?

  • the fact that the power button is in the center annoys the crap out of me… that would take at least a week to get used to. 

  • The front of this phone is so ugly, especially with that little tic tac of a reciever and buttons that don’t span the entire bottom of the phone. It’s simply poor design. However, the back does look pretty sexy, even though Motorola still insists on putting the labels in landscape format even though most people these days use their phone in portrait format most of the time. Motorola really needs some new designers, in my opinion.

  • Watched the vids. Looks like some lag on this so called beast. The only thing beasty about this phone is the price.

    • Motorola won’t let MotoBlur go, if you kick the overlay aside, the phone should be fast enough for pretty much everything as of today

    • I wonder if the Bionic is going to have this horribly built blur. There is definitely lag, which is wierd because the Dinc2 a single core phone has no lag at all.

  • Ordered mine this morning. I’m gonna miss my OG Droid but I needed a new phone very badly. I’m not too excited about buying a Blur phone but I guess I can give it a try but I hope I can get a Vanilla GB ROM soon *hint hint* lol

  • The UI formerly known as Blur looks to have been polished quite a bit.  Still looked clunky in the last vid, but then again the vid says it is pre-release software.  Let’s hope that TUIFKAB doesn’t take up 2/3 of the available RAM this time.

    PS I am waiting for the Bionic, but this shows the promise of things to come.

    • The phone is very snappy..reception is very good, 4G will offer you Faster browsing but thats about it.

  • Motoblur actually looking pretty nice now. Still never buying Moto again if I can help it. 

  • Step 1: Turn on the device

    Step 2: Download and install Launcher Pro

    Step 3: Wait for xda to get root access

    Step 4: Realize no amount of hacking is going to get you an LTE radio

    Step 5: Experience buyer’s remorse

  • Video 21 is missing: Rooting, unlocking your bootloader, and removing bloatware.

  • linking it so far..the new blur is very snappy and much better than the older version running on the X2..Gingerbread makes it even better.

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