OEM skin/software

[XDA_RealLifeReview]

Are you comfortable in your own skin? Is your phone comfortable in its skin? Rate this thread to express how you deem the skin on the Moto Z. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it adds just the right amount of features, it's visually pleasing, and overall it's additive to the experience. If this is a Nexus phone (you didn't think we hand-wrote all of these prompts, did you?) then use this rating to indicate how the latest version of Android looks to you.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

 

[wilder_mason]

Great, close to stock. Still lacking in features compared to most other OEMs and updates are very few and far between. Still on a july security patch.

 

[harut2K]

Probably the dumbest part of the skin is that you can't set the homescreen to the middle. No, the damned thing has to be on the most LEFT panel. What are you? An iPhone? Half the reason I bought an android was to set the homescreen to the center.

 

[nukeclears]

Probably the dumbest part of the skin is that you can't set the homescreen to the middle. No, the damned thing has to be on the most LEFT panel. What are you? An iPhone? Half the reason I bought an android was to set the homescreen to the center.

It uses the Google Now Launcher, which as the name implies keeps Google Now easily accessible with a single swipe from the homescreen. You can always install Nova launcher or another customizable google now-esque launcher and have the home screens setup like you want (which nova does by default)