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Old 02-02-2012, 01:24 PM
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Hello.

So I'm getting this phone today (AWESOME!) but wanted to ask something.

I know it's getting Ice Cream Sandwich, but will it look like ICS? Or will Motorola get it's grubby hands on it and fuse it with MotoBlur? Just wondering. I'm guessing that will happen? Since only stock ICS goes to google phones?

Kinda how official Gingerbread on Thunderbolt, is really just HTC Sense again, nothing looks different? Will it be like that with Motorola?

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If you are getting this phone, then you should be willing to accept that ICS on this phone will have the hands from Motorola in it somehow (in whatever you want to call it whether it is Motoblur, or something else)
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Yeah I know, just wanted to know how ICS would be on the phone.

It seems like Motoblur will be slapped on it. That's fine. I just like how the menu's and all look on ICS, any idea if we will get a ICS theme or something?
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Yeah I know, just wanted to know how ICS would be on the phone.

It seems like Motoblur will be slapped on it. That's fine. I just like how the menu's and all look on ICS, any idea if we will get a ICS theme or something?
If you just had to have vanilla ICS, then you should have picked up a Galaxy Nexus... but it looks like you want Motorola to stop putting it's own skins on it's devices... just not going to happen.
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Yeah I know, just wanted to know how ICS would be on the phone.

It seems like Motoblur will be slapped on it. That's fine. I just like how the menu's and all look on ICS, any idea if we will get a ICS theme or something?
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.

or said a little differently

if it looks like a Motorola phone, and it acts like a Motorola phone, then why in the world would ICS not be Motorola skinned?

That is what it is going to look like.

Theme: Motorola themed.

Look: Motorola look

I am not sure how many more ways we can describe it for you so that you will be able to accept it.

Oh, and before you ask. Second quarter
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Old 02-02-2012, 04:40 PM
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I'm just wondering, I'm fine with ICS theme or Motoblur (both are definately an improvement over HTC Sense that's for sure).

Ok thanks guys.
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I still wonder how to navigate without the Back button? We have Gingerbread on our Galaxy Tab where it vanished, and I just don't get it. What do you do instead?
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Old 02-02-2012, 04:46 PM
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I read somewhere it's going to be 3 little dots ... in a vertical position. In the top right corner of the app, say Gmail.
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Old 02-02-2012, 06:04 PM
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Think of motoblurs ICS when compared to g-nexus ICS as French vanilla bean ice cream..... its still vanilla ice cream (ICS ) but with ground up beans in it (motoblur)....

I don't expect Motorola's ICS to be a severe change... ICS is just android... like cake... motoblur is a UI, like frosting. All ICS elements should be there plus added features (motoblur). .. I wouldn't worry.

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First don't expect a huge difference in looks. Blur has always been blan . They don't do fancy menus or what not. That's one reason its easy for motorola to upgrade there's little bloat.

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