They’ve done it again! Our peeps over at Boy Genius Report got their paws on on a spankin’ new Verizon MAXX Ve from Motorola. Equipped with an auto-focusing 2MP camera and MP3 playback, the MAXX looked like a promising phone until I scrolled down and saw this…
Nooooooo! The VCAST interface that plagues almost every Verizon phone! Well, it was nice knowing you MAXX. I, ah, hear my mother calling me for dinner. Gotta run!
Little known fact… Verizon has it in their contracts with Motorola that that menu has to be there and that it has to be uneditable
Woe, the verizon UI! I wouldn’t worry to much about it CG, my Chocolate can feature both an new and flashy flash UI in addition to the craptacular Verizon UI.
Now, as much as everyone bags on Verizon UI, I think given some of their plan pricing, I’d bite the bullet to not get raped on phone plans. Of course, I get a ridiculous amount of money off through my employer, in addition to the fact that I have a pretty reasonable plan (not 1 billion million minutes per month plus a billion million texts, etc), so maybe that contributes a lot to having a nice cheap plan.
It is surprising though that given how many complaints a lot of the more trendy phone users give Verizon about their UI, they’re trying to use the flash based ones featured in their newest phones (LG Chocolate is what I experience with, and own).
It sure does suck not being able to use BT OBEX, but there are ways to get around that. Oh well, I guess for some UI is more important than the bill they pay (or not pay if you’re a whiny little kid who lives at home still).
You do realize that this is Verizon, correct? Why are you surprised at the corporate UI and the crippled Bluetooth?
Do you scream at water when it’s wet?