Verizon Motorola Sholes not running MOTOBLUR?
By Nilay Patel 
posted October 6th 2009 4:51PM
posted October 6th 2009 4:51PM
We'd been hearing rumors that the Motorola Sholes on Verizon wouldn't be running MOTOBLUR because it's to be a "Google Experience" device, and while that seemed silly at first, it certainly looks like the device Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam was waving around this morning was running stock Android. How can we tell? For starters, Blur has a different 3G icon in the menu bar, and different icons for several apps -- Calendar leaps out to us here. What's more, that certainly appears to be the default Android search box lurking back there, something that's not part of the Blur homescreen. That's definitely odd, considering how big a bet Motorola seemed to be placing on Blur as its handset differentiator -- and doubly odd since the HTC Hero Eric Schmidt was holding at the same photo op was running Sense on top of Android. We'll have to see how this one shakes out when the Sholes is actually launched, but for now we'd say those rumors are looking awfully true.
[Image credit: Associated Press, under license; thanks to everyone who sent this in]
[Image credit: Associated Press, under license; thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Do the Uggs run Sense, or Google Experience UI? I heard the new ones are sportin cortex kangaroo skin!
Good, it's horrible when laptop manufacturers butcher Windows with their rubbish, I'm not talking spyware/adware here, but the things they put on to make it better.
Look telco's and hardware guys, your just no good at writing software.
Keep it stock.
maybe it's me, but it does look pretty thin for a slider phone
Verizon castrating manufacturer's features off their phones? This is news, how?