Recent content by WilliamC

It's easier if they use aroot and they can always unroot later if they want to. Once you root the phone you can install the amazon appstore app without sideloading and any apps that you get from there will install just fine. Rooting your phone takes less than 5 minutes.

I'll have to disagree with you. :)

That's a software issue and not a display issue though. That would be like me complaining because I can't cut and paste from the blur e-mail app and saying on my retina display I could do it. Software limitations or poorly implemented features are not the fault of the display.

Define solid experience. If you mean someone that has actually used it, then i think it's safe to say anyone with a motorola phone. I used it for about a week before I spent time trying to get rid of it.

I believe, if memory serves, that you can bypass the motoblur setup. When you get to the screen, hit the menu button and I setup wifi. Once you are connected to the internet, I believe you can hit next and skip the setup. I'm going off of memory here, I did this the first week I got the phone...

Not everyone thinks the screen is great. There is currently nothing that can compare with the retina display, but I didn't want an iphone 4 and didn't want to wait for the iphone 5. The phone is fast, which helped ease the pain of the screen. Honestly, if a phone comes out with the speed or...

Music is on par, though I have only listened to it through headphones. Photo quality is better on the iphone. Call quality has some issues on the atrix, it's on the moto forums and something official should come up soon, according the their forums.

You may want to recheck your facts. Let's start with the social apps. Whether you use them or not, they still run in the background. Here are the social apps that take up memory even though I don't use any of them: Social Messaging 2.2.1 Social Messaging Service 2.2.1 Social Networking 2.2.1...

Your best bet would be to ask this on a place like xda.

Motoblur isn't just a bunch of widgets. It's of slew of apps that are tightly integrated into the phone. You also have along with those apps a ton of background processes. Any launcher can give you 7 homescreens, call and contact buttons, and the app drawer. These other launchers will also...

you can actually freeze (ie. prevent the motoblur launcher from loading) the motoblur launcher. Motoblur is more than a launcher though, there are a lot of things that go with it. The link above has a list of things you can safely stop from loading and that is a lot of motoblur.

Motoblur is just the worst UI ever created! I loathe it. However, you have several options if you are someone that hates motoblur. You can use an alternative launcher that will "cover up" blur, like launcher pro. Going with an alternative launcher will not require root. Rooting won't change...

bloatware = motoblur A lot of people, myself included, hate motoblur with a passion. The only way to truly get rid of motoblur is to manipulate the system files. What you did was remove the bloatware that was removeable with a simple uninstall. This is something for the people that want to get...

When you say " shows all my valid cc's as "unusable"", do you mean that you are checking it through google checkout? If so, then that isn't an issue with the phone and explains why you have an error. I would try removing and re-adding the cards. Rooting will have no affect on purchasing...

Some people consider everything motoblur to be bloat and that can't be easily removed.