I'm not exactly sure what qualifies as the Grace UI so it's hard to say. What I can say is the Settings menu does not look like what I saw when the phone was announced. It looks identical to what I have on my Note 5.
It seems like people are getting bent out of shape at anyone posting any criticism so I'll just say I'm not criticizing. It doesn't really change anything and I get why they do it. It bothers me more intellectually than anything else.
I'm attaching a picture of the new settings menu and then one from my Note 5. The Verizon display model's settings menu looked exactly like my Note 5 (except for the black theme I'm using).
Again, not a big deal. Just an observation.
The Grace UI is just a simpler looking user interface. (I don't know the reasoning for the name, but if I was forced to guess it might have been something like this:
Someone at Samsung: Grace is an old name, back in the time people were named Grace things were simpler, people were simpler (they didn't wear all kinds of skin products, hair products, etc). Since Grace gives the connotation of a plain/simple person, and are TouchWiz UI interface is more plain/simple than we should call it Grace.")
The phone I saw on launch day at Verizon was the second picture, not the first of the pictures you posted. I think someone was screwing with the settings on the one you saw. (Possibly someone who is a fan of the Note 5). If you have the opportunity to go back to that place and look again see if you can change the settings, or ask one of the staff if someone changed the settings to make it look like the Note 5 instead of the 7. If you mention that to them I have a feeling they'll have a desire to set it back to its default Note 7 settings.
While I can't speak for everyone on the board I don't think anyone intended to criticize you for your post (I for one didn't). My concern would be if they've changed things with an update to the Verizon phones since the launch date, but I find it hard to believe that Verizon would take it upon themselves to decide to force everyone to go a Note 5 UI as opposed to the Note 7 one that is getting so much positive publicity.
I posted about this last week. The Best Buy demos are gimped and the Verizon demos are actual retail units. Some features and options are missing from the BB demos.
I read you post last week. vmmatty isn't saying what you did - he/she is saying the opposite, and that's what is concerning. Given that vmmaty is saying he/she saw the Best Buy model looking like the Samsung advertised model suggests a couple of things: first; Best Buy updated their software, and its now more like the standard version (unlikely, but possible), second; someone screwed with the settings before you saw it at Best Buy (possibly one of their staff) and what you saw wasn't representative of all units at all of the Best Buys. (I do believe Best Buy would be more apt to lock down the features of their displays more than carrier stores would).
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