Does anyone wish Android would revert to its 2.3, 3.0 4.x appearance or something just different to the Material UI?

[zikalify Editor]

Just been looking through some old screenshots from my Motorola Milestone, Android seemed a lot nicer then, now it just irritates me. Here's a screenshot of 2.3 on my Milestone and the phone's about info when I temporarily tried ICS on it (it was too slow lol). I don't think I'm a great fan of the animations now and Android used to look so futuristic.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

I find that look really quite dated and just reeks of “2000s web”. I love material, but I wish Metro had been better understood and implemented - I found that as a very usable design language.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

Oof, that screenshot takes me back! Unfortunately not in a good way though, I far prefer how things look these days.

[adrynalyne]

Holo was truly terrible. So bland.

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

Stock Android before 4.0 looked terrible in my opinion, it was like comparing Windows 95 to Windows 7.

I actually have a few random screenshots from older my older phones I'll share.

At the time I was a big fan of the Sense skin used on HTC devices, this is a screenshot from my HTC Desire on Android 2.2, taken in November 2010. Such a huge improvement compared to stock Android 2.2 I think:

 

My HTC Desire in July 2011, running Android 2.3 with the MIUI custom rom, this was a lot lighter than HTC Sense and really improved battery life a lot:

Trivia: This was before Xiaomi had ever released a phone and just distributed custom roms for various popular devices at the time.

This is where I think stock Android actually ended up looking better than HTC Sense / MIUI, my Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0 in May 2012:

[Michael Scrip]

This guy approves...

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