In case you aren't familiar with the Interface, MotoBlur is Motorola's custom Android UI which helps to integrate your social networks with your contacts' information. It does, indeed, have some good features, such as adding the numbers of all my facebook friends to my address book on my phone. The problem that I see, and what thousands of other 'Blur users see, is that when a new version of Android is released, it is never released for our phones. You would expect that after 8 months of the device being on the market, the Motorola CLIQ would have at least upgraded to a slightly improved version of Android. This however, is not the case. The Motorola CLIQ is still stuck with Android 1.5. This brings me to my main point - why is Motorola integrating ANY version of MotoBlur on the Droid X? They're advertising the heck out of this phone, and everyone is anticipating it to be a leader in the pack of top-rated devices. Why would Motorola risk having such a great phone being stuck in the current, albeit new, version of Android, for the rest of it's existence. The Droid X is supposedly going to feature a 'revamped' version of MotoBlur - something that I find irrelevant regarding whether or not it will be updated more often than the current version - which has NEVER been updated. I just hope that eventually the MotoBlur programmers figure out a way to quickly update the UI in order to allow the newest version of Android to be used on the Droid X, and other Blur devices. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see how this all works out when Android Gingerbread is released.
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