Yeah, I need to do this with our Samsung Transforms. My wife likes the keyboard, but the lagginess, due to mostly Sprint's crap is annoying.
I might mess with it after I get an iPhone... up for an upgrade cycle in a couple of months. Assuming my "Conk" and "Virtual Cat Toys" take off in Google Play, I'll be adding some Apple hardware to the home soon.
Even 2.3 seems ancient these days, though it's not really that old.
ICS is decent for tablets, but as a developer, it's bit infuriating that they left no way to remove the soft-keys and status bar when doing full screen games. The only thing worse is the idiotic "Activity" pattern Google Android follows for it's UI (back-back-back-back-finally exits...)