Root my Cliq

November 19, 2009 Posted by mitch | technology | 0 Comments

I have to be honest... the Motorola Cliq... is fairly nice hardware, but whatever they've done to android... isn't flattering... Motoblur is a huge waste of resources and apparently requires so much modification to andrioid that it must take months to modify it. Which is why it still has Android 1.5 on it, instead of the much needed 1.6 release which has a lot of speed and other improvements. But what really chaps me, is the fact that Droid has 2.0 on it... which Verizon must have paid off someone so they could get the exclusive for a while... So, sorry Moto, but I'm going with a C.. maybe a D rating on your software choices for the phone... its horrible. Maybe its because I don't care about facebook? or any other social networking... but the fact I'm locked into a subpar sms app, can't remove facebook, and the email apps are also quite horrible... I've installed new apps for these.. but I still get pop ups and such for them as well... anyway... Android is an Open Platform... why must these people lock it down? We want android for the flexibility it offers, not for you to force us into your horrible software choices! Moto... I gave you another chance... and you failed... I will be looking forward to another phone within a year or so.