Do you like the MotoBlur UI?

[Bond32]

What also bothers me is that there is now no mainstream consumer phone on the market with stock Android.

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There is.... the original Droid.

 

[mikejs78]

There is.... the original Droid.

The original Droid - a phone that is no longer sold by its carrier and is essentially end of life. Like I said, no mainstream consumer phone has stock Android.


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[Bond32]

Nope it is still sold. They have it back in stock. And I find it amazing that the poll is tied...

 

[barney74]

My feelings for motoblur go beyond the hate as a die hard chicago bears fan that i have with the green bay packers. The hatfields and mccoys liked each other more than i like this piece of crap bloatware. "Social Network Intergration" is crap. I have to check 5 pop3 accounts for emails. I cannot switch between accounts in the damn email app. Have all my contacts avaible to other apps say like chompsms or handcent forget about only get ur gmail contacts. Hell the my d1 with froyo will allow me to do all that. Hell it did when it was still on 2.01. I love my droids esp the moto hardware but this piece of crap motoblur has got to go. The minute someone figures out how to get rid of it, motoblur is gone from my phone.

 

[lolthisismyname]

I absolutely hate MotoBlur. It's glitchy crap.

I hate eFuse even more.

The next phone I buy will definitely not be coming from Motorola unless they release a decent phone without eFuse and without MotoBlur. This is coming from a guy who got a free Droid2.

 

[errzone]

Add me to the like group. Just got my atrix a couple of weeks ago. While I had some reservations about motoblur in the beginning, I have grown to like it once I realized how minimalistic the UI design is. The green and blue button for the 2 most basic functions, and the most often used in my case, are brilliant. The graphics look sharp and they're just about the right size. Yeah, you lose 2 icon places, but I think it looks better than the competition home screen, and it's something that differentiates motorola from the rest. I will be sad to see it go, if rumors about the gingerbread release are true.

As for the motoblur widgets, some are pretty useful, like the Contact quick tasks, the sticky note or messages widget. Here's hoping motorla keeps the green and blue buttons with the gingerbread update.

 

[ndwatkins]

My feelings for motoblur go beyond the hate as a die hard chicago bears fan that i have with the green bay packers. The hatfields and mccoys liked each other more than i like this piece of crap bloatware. "Social Network Intergration" is crap. I have to check 5 pop3 accounts for emails. I cannot switch between accounts in the damn email app. Have all my contacts avaible to other apps say like chompsms or handcent forget about only get ur gmail contacts. Hell the my d1 with froyo will allow me to do all that. Hell it did when it was still on 2.01. I love my droids esp the moto hardware but this piece of crap motoblur has got to go. The minute someone figures out how to get rid of it, motoblur is gone from my phone.

I must agree with everything you have said. Blur drives me crazy. It's laggy, and the decisions Motorola makes for social integration that you could make on your own I just don't understand. I can choose to add my own Facebook contacts with the standalone app; I don't need Blur to do it for me. I also think the UI is hideous and the way they've bastardized stock Gingerbread with all that neon blue is just gross, but I realize that is a personal preference and not everyone feels that way. That's what theming is for, anyway. My issue is more with the fact that even with a custom ROM, Blur is not completely removable because of the stupid encrypted bootloader problem. Take this on top of everything Sanjay Jha said the other day (and then the company tried to take it back) and I've about had it. I love my X, but I'm sick of Motorola.

However, I am a Wisconsin native, so it must be said. Go Pack.

 

[Kegman]

its not fast enough, laggy at times and at other times dont work at all. if it worked properly i'd like it a lot.

 

[gordol]

Dislike Blur. It was better on Froyo than it is on Gingerbread, but I still replaced the main UI with Launcher Pro while still using Froyo. GB is worse in that the App Drawer is slower with those stupid not-quite-tabs. Stupid because there are plenty of Home Screen pages to use to organize apps that need organization.

 

[bberrynewbie84]

I like the new motoblur

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[greydarrah]

I can't believe anyone cares about motoblur. There are other launchers (LP and ADW) that make it non existent.

 

[Burner50]

I like it.... But I was a devout bb fanboi before I got my droidx... so its the only Android UI I've ever used.

 

[ndwatkins]

I can't believe anyone cares about motoblur. There are other launchers (LP and ADW) that make it non existent.

It's a lot more deeply integrated into the system than just putting a launcher on it, though. I do get what you're saying-I go back and forth between launchers myself. Blur reaches way into the phone though beyond just its homescreens.

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[Sithlrdvad]

I like some blur.

The camera and the contact widgets.

 

[joshua.worth]

Hate it give us stock Android please and let us do whatever we want to it.

 

[DroidQ]

Hate is too strong. I would say that I am indifferent to Blur. I prefer GO Launcher or Launcher Pro. However I would love no skin at all.

 

[mhans311]

In what ways does Blur go "deep" into the OS? Outside of the launcher, I only notice a few specialized apps (such as gallery or the blur widgets). The thing I hate more than Blur are all the crapware Verizon loads on there.

I guess I am confused as to why people hate Blur so much when it seems like things like Sense and TouchWiz are much heavier skins and change the android feel a lot more than blur does.

Having said this, I still sometimes finding myself yearning for the stock experience I see on my wife's old OG Droid.

 

[ndwatkins]

In what ways does Blur go "deep" into the OS? Outside of the launcher, I only notice a few specialized apps (such as gallery or the blur widgets). The thing I hate more than Blur are all the crapware Verizon loads on there.

I guess I am confused as to why people hate Blur so much when it seems like things like Sense and TouchWiz are much heavier skins and change the android feel a lot more than blur does.

Having said this, I still sometimes finding myself yearning for the stock experience I see on my wife's old OG Droid.

Since I don't develop myself, I don't want to say something completely in error, so someone who is more knowledgeable than I am can feel free to correct me However, from following developers pretty closely, and rooting and ROMing, you can see where Blur reaches into the operating system when developers try to create a stock experience for us. For example, the developer who created Apex RC2 (the thread is on this forum) had one hell of a time getting the Blur apps out of it. The Blur settings are different than stock Android; the Blur email is different, the Blur text messaging is different, the Blur Facebook integration is different, the Blur contacts and the Blur dialer are different, the list goes on and on and on. It isn't even completely removable despite the appearance of a stock experience on Apex (although it comes close enough to make most of us purists happy! ) Even stupid little things, like Motorola not allowing 1% battery increments because of the way they wrote their library (completely contradictory to the AOSP library) just makes no sense at all and is obnoxious.

I'm not saying that Sense and Touchwiz aren't obnoxious as well. I think it's all obnoxious. To me, the solution would be to ship these phones with the skins pre-installed with the option of removing them if we don't like them. This would appease the manufacturers, because that way, people who like them would leave them on there. Also, your average phone owner who doesn't know the difference wouldn't know better and wouldn't remove it anyway, so they wouldn't care. That would satisfy the OEMs and the purists who want to be able to remove it and enjoy a stock Android experience and pure Google.

Just my two cents!

 

[joshua.worth]

Hate is too strong. I would say that I am indifferent to Blur. I prefer GO Launcher or Launcher Pro. However I would love no skin at all.

I as well use Launcher Pro and prefer it over stock Android even I just despise the concept of OEM adding layers at their discretion on top of my software. Give us freedom of choice. Make it downloadable for those few people who do like it

 

[joshua.worth]

Since I don't develop myself, I don't want to say something completely in error, so someone who is more knowledgeable than I am can feel free to correct me However, from following developers pretty closely, and rooting and ROMing, you can see where Blur reaches into the operating system when developers try to create a stock experience for us. For example, the developer who created Apex RC2 (the thread is on this forum) had one hell of a time getting the Blur apps out of it. The Blur settings are different than stock Android; the Blur email is different, the Blur text messaging is different, the Blur Facebook integration is different, the Blur contacts and the Blur dialer are different, the list goes on and on and on. It isn't even completely removable despite the appearance of a stock experience on Apex (although it comes close enough to make most of us purists happy! ) Even stupid little things, like Motorola not allowing 1% battery increments because of the way they wrote their library (completely contradictory to the AOSP library) just makes no sense at all and is obnoxious.

I'm not saying that Sense and Touchwiz aren't obnoxious as well. I think it's all obnoxious. To me, the solution would be to ship these phones with the skins pre-installed with the option of removing them if we don't like them. This would appease the manufacturers, because that way, people who like them would leave them on there. Also, your average phone owner who doesn't know the difference wouldn't know better and wouldn't remove it anyway, so they wouldn't care. That would satisfy the OEMs and the purists who want to be able to remove it and enjoy a stock Android experience and pure Google.





Just my two cents!

Couldn't agree more!