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I have a HTC Desire Z (which has a flip under keyboard) and my experience has been the opposite compared to what is mentioned in the other comments. Maybe I got lucky in my pick for a model, but it's very smooth, has extremely good battery life (all my friends have to charge their smartphone every night, for me it's every 3th night unless I have used it extremely much). I would easily give it a 9 out of 10

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I have a Desire Z (since June) and what I would call low usage: perhaps a few texts per day, generally no calls & always on (but hardly ever used) wifi. I find I have to charge my phone nightly or the battery will last for a full day & then die halfway through the second.

To add to that, I have found the camera to be exceptionally poor, and the hardware keyboard will occasionally trigger shortcuts rather than inputting the text.

I have similar battery life on my Desire Z.

The shortcuts thing is kinda fixable, you need to disable each keyboard shortcut.

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