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Round Robin: AT&T Fuze / TouchFlo 3D First Impressions Posted in SPE Round Robin on 20 Dec 2008 19:24 by Kevin Michaluk | 
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[ This is an official Smartphone Round Robin post! Every day you reply to an official Round Robin blog post or forum thread on CrackBerry.com, you automatically gain an entry ballot for a chance to win a BlackBerry Bold, Spare Bold Battery, and Case Mate Second Skin! ] I'm excited boys and girls! NOT by the AT&T Fuze -- you're gonna have to watch the video above to see how I feel about the device and TouchFlo 3D so far -- but because the Smartphone Round Robin is almost over which means I'll have my BlackBerry Bold back next week! Though I am a LITTLE worried to get it back... after seeing everybody tap the heck out of its display thinking it was a touchscreen has me thinking it may not be quite the same Bold I originally shipped out. I've been saying my daily prayer to the CrackBerry Gods that it returns home safely. In the meantime, enjoy the Fuze initial impressions video! Be sure to post a comment for your chance to win your own BlackBerry Bold and more!! Bookmark/Search this post with:
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You can do one wicked review Kevin.
So glad I have a BB! My gorilla hands would definitely not work out well with that touchscreen!
You've got to be kidding.... it looks like a plastic phone. Perhaps the reviewer should have learned how to use it before the video making stage. I would not buy that phone based on the video. And people complain about the Storm!..You've got to be kidding!
Actually, I used the phone for three days before making this video. I still had THAT much trouble with the touchscreen and settings and everything.
Also, the point of this video is not to sell you on the device, but to show you one BlackBerry user's first impressions of a different device on a different platform. I think you may have missed the objective - you can learn what it's all about at www.smartphoneroundrobin.com
Hey... I think my note came off wrong and would like to say that I was not evaluating YOU as a reviewer, which I thought you did very well. By saying you should have used it more before the video I was trying to say that since the phone was giving you so much dificulty more time might have helped. I am sorry for the shortness of my comment Kevin. So many people have been complaining about the LAG per se of the Storm that I couldn't believe my eyes how the lag of the Fuse caused you to get frustrated. I appreciate your effort.... I give the phone a 3 and you a 10 :-)
LOL! At least I don't feel as stupid now! I had the exact same problems with PressHardStammer2D!
Good on ya for not throwing the FUZE tho, or poking your eye out.
And don't worry, I'm taking great care of your Bold. The keyboard will hardly be worn out at all :)
Told you to go to xda-developers would have had a much better time with the HTC Touch Pro.
Kevin,
You remind me of ObaMA. Crying to the people for change. The 'Mold will be the last crapberry stab in the market as it is getting rolled over by HTC and the iPhone. (do you even know why crapberry's have lasted? Tell you what, call your local congresswo/man and ask them - bet you'll be surprised to find out how unethical those devices are - if they even tell you (email me if you're too lazy).
WARNING:
So take you time reading this - you're going to hate me but if you ever want to grow - read to the end. I'll set you and crapberry fans straight. Now take it like a man...
It was funny watching our video of you using the Fuze (real name is p2600 using Raphael software - but most crapberry users wouldn't understand what that means as they have no clue how to cook ROMs, do a active synch .exe install or probably even install a .cab - "please provide everything so I don't have to do anything" and most seem to be Macheads (definition of Mac users are the ones that got beat up in school who turned out to be "alternative")
Watching you fumble around with the Fuze reminded me of a three finger monkey "acting" like it was difficult to use (bad acting - what D movie were you in). If that was your first time, you are excused (were you picked last in sports before you dropped out?)
There isn't one thing the 'Mold can do over the Fuze - name it and I’ll bring your challenge on (please email me if you think you got an Ace up your sleeve - I’d love to call your 3 of a kind with a royal flush - actually, I welcome it!)
Let me give you an idea of its power (not talking about its 528 MHz processor - once again, crapberry users are saying "duh, huh?")
- the ability to install tons of after market programs that enables the user to change nearly every setting and preference within it (have you noticed the holy website of mobile phones are more geared to HTC style phones? Oh, what website is that you say, my bad, I should have known you wouldn't know what it is - XDA.
- twice as much RAM!
- 100 x better pixel and refresh screen rate
- You bashed the touchflo response - guess what, it's adjustable to each user - just install Diamond Tweak and you have a ton of user preference changes like by passing the start up screen and scroll wheel navigation and power saving options
- it actually has Blackberry connect built into it (isn't that the whole and sole reason to get a 'Mold or one of its redneck, bucktoothed cousins? yeeeeeeeeeeaaa, I’m going to need you to work on Saturday, yeaaaaaa
- how about to ability to stream live webcam's to the phone (I’ve got 4 ip based webcam's at my house and I can control, turn, zoom and config each of them - day or night) - talk about an incredible feature. It soooo nice to know that if anything moves in your house or office that you will get an SMS immediately notifying you and an email sent with photos - security at your service.
- the ability to take 16 gb (as soon as the industry releases 32gb, its ready to roll!) of videos, photos, You tube (that's one within itself), or downloaded movies and plug the Fuze into any TV and watch it regardless of the size of the TV (I’ve got a 65" Mitsubishi and a projector with a screen width of 12' (yes feet, not inches) and it works fine) = granted its only composite (for crapberry users that means RCA plugs, very good, you get a gold star) but ohhh, once again, tell me if the 'Mold can do that? NOPE
- touch response = when touching the screen thereby getting tiny vibrations letting you know you have made contact (the only other phone that comes with it standard is the sprint instinct) = it is a developer based software but that's what separates us from crapberry and especially iphone'y' users. We evolve, adapt, learn and create rather than just wait until crapiness or Mr. jobs decides what’s kewl and what’s not
- the ability to disable the touchflo (I read one of your fans stated that s/he went back in time to their old stuff because s/he missed the WM screen - moron, give it a go and LEARN or Google if you can change it - surprise, it can do that too (I actually disabled it as i prefer the WM today screen b/c i port in 6 emails and i want them on my today screen
- you can sling your TV to it (once again crapberry abusers, that means you can connect (via the 3G internet) to your home TV and/or dvr and watch whatever you have at home and/or recorded to your dvr (yea, wow is right!)
= want to watch that mork and mindey you recorded or one of your movie channels - in the words of Adam sandler, 'you can do it'
- how about a WM modified weather program that gives you weather alerts in as many cities as you can possibly think of (I heard your wasted comment about missing a city - do our homework and evolve - elecont.com
- the ability to change the PTT button and mod every hard key on it to do 4 things (single, double, triple and hold buttons) = with only 3 buttons that means how many quick links??? (jeopardy song)
- voice dialing except this time you don’t have to pre-record the names or programs - the ROM does it for you.
- voice speaking - the phone will read your email headers, SMS pages, calendar appointments and even more.
- the ability to know when its best to go fishing = an after market software that predicts the high/low tides across the world (oh, not a fisherman - landlubber!
- skyfire - the most intense web browser made (the Fuze already comes with IE and Opera) but this one allows you to tap into any website and all of its content even videos
- regedit - we can and do it - (I’m not even going to waste my time explaining that one to crapberry users - you wouldn't attempt it anyway)
- I read one of the crapberry users stating its a windows based device and wouldn't even try it - yea,,, hey buddy, when you get done having your latte 1/2 and 1/2 with your biscotti, WAKE UP and evolve. There is a reason Windows OWNS crapple even when crapple gives away their so called computers for educational purposes = it's better, plan and simple. Ask crapple why they 1. installed an Intel chip in it to run and 2. created a bi-operating system so you can run windows (GAY!) - I have zero care to get on a leopard
- G-sensor - tilt the phone and spin it - your screen is always horizontal (unless you change it). Oh and don't think for a minute Iphone created that program - thank Sony Ericson for that!
- office mobile with the ability to edit word, PowerPoint and excel files. Yea, nice don't you think?
- GPS - tomtom has done a wonderful job of compacting all of that info in such a small file - hackers have even created voices that sound like celeb's or stereo-types (freaking hell-larry-isss)
- 3.2 MB camera vs. your 2 MWinnee camera - yea, you can't even upload photos that look good to your website as the minimum is 3 megs (and yes, it has video recorder, burst, sports mode, panoramic, magazine) with 2 x zoom as well as a voice recorder that you can email and open with quicktime or media player (or any other player with the correct plugins)
- camera flash - you see, you give it half prop's just b.c the 'Mold has it but what bad is you only see it one dimensional - I’ve created a quick key (hold on my Home Key) and use it as a flash light (50 lumes more than the 'Mold)- wow, what a concept! back to that evolving and learning thing.
- VPN (ok crapberry users, today's quiz, what does VPN mean?) yes, the ability to connect in to a Virtual Private Network
- the ability to use it as a modem out of the box. (yes, you too can teether) I can stream Skype video to my laptop from my phone while driving down I-95 and yes, you can even install Skype to the phone itself!
I could start nickel and dimming but you get the point if you even made it this far and didn't drop out like most flunkies. AND if you're still not convinced, wow, good for you. I bet your one of those people who has to call your 10 yr old in your office to help you reset your router. Yikes!
I will give you this - the phone does have a high learning curve (watching you use it shows perfectly) and most people can't deal with that - the Fuze is more than what most people will ever need (kind of like having a Terabyte drive) and more than most can simply do b/c they stopped learning.
So, lets see if you even keep this post and how many people try to refute the AWESOME POOOOOOWEERRRRRR (I did that in my movie voice)
Thanks for letting me set it straight and get it off my chest - that was FUN!
sDs
PS - Iphone'y' users - give it a break - you can even cut, copy and paste nor send an MMS photo or video to any other phone and all the iphones can do what others cant is use google earth --- oooooooo - b/c thats what i'll be doing with my mobile is playing on that everyday! At some point, stupidity kicked.
G1 users welcome - you already know you can't hang but you have an open platform - that's kudos! You may take over one day but i doubt it.
I use the AT&T Curve and use the AXIM x51v for my PDA because the curve cannot do things I need on the PDA. I've been waiting for a true convergent device. I think the Fuze is getting close to being that device. The upcoming HTC Touch Pro 2 is probably going to be that device for me but since it may not be offered on AT&T right away I will probably commit for the Fuze. I love my curve but I have to get on 3G, Wifi and simultaneous call/data. So it's going to be a Bold or the Fuze for now. I thought this was an awesome post at showing the potential of the Fuze. Thanks for the post. I was also very entertained by it....!
Seems to be a day late and dollar short as they say. So much more in todays market. As usual, a great review Kevin.
The touch screen is BRUTAL
There is a difference between user errors and a poor interface which leads to user errors :)
Hoping you get your Bold back soon and would love to have another.
Not a huge fan of this phone but to each their own. I would love winning a Bold though.
I have only had my Storm for three weeks, but from watching the Round Robin videos, it sounds as if I stumbled upon the best smart phone for me.
Kevin is awesome. good review
wanna win the bold!!!!!!!!!!!111
Sass that hoopy phone.
Sass that hoopy phone.
haha that was my favorite part of this video because that was in fact what i felt.. the first day the bold came out i had it in hand and to my surprise my sister's boyfriend also had it in hand.. so we compared what we've done and such and him using it out of the box and myself already with OS updates and theme updates etc made him a bit jealous, neways side note aside he had told me that the phone was only to hold him over till the fuze came out.. well 2 or 3 weeks later he came by with fuze in hand and as i was playing with it i felt the same exact thing you did.. accidently opening files and such i did not want to.. stylus i hate hate hate that thing..
most the phones in the round robin has had me thinking maybe it would be nice but this phone had me just laughing through out the video saying " yup that happened to me too "
Nice review as always. The Fuze still doesn't impress me that much, though. I'm still waiting on the Curve II, or possibly a free Bold!
back, back, back... why won't it work. I love it!
Hate too break it to ya Kevin but Rene told me he was keeping your Bold, lost in transit I heard...holidays and all right, lot's of stuff being shipped ;)
Anywho, I'm growing weary of commenting on Windows mobile lol, The Fuze and the Treo Pro is enough to make me wanna stab something with a stylus :P
The Fuze is a nice looking device, complimented by a nice UI that is TF3D, but that is where it stops, TF3D imo actually retards the device from it's full functionality, as it cause's lag in the fuze.
I have never been a fan of windows mobile, but I am windows mobile curious due to the customization factor, I think when streamlined it would be much improved, but the carriers bloatware and useless stuff already built into WinMob stops that.
Most of the lag comes from the sh--ty ATT add-on features and junk. To truly appreciate any HTC device you have to use a optimized - cooked ROM. One thing I like about WM over Symbian or BB OS is that people with programming knowledge can actually use a OS dump and optimize it to their liking and post and have people flash and use their devices at a better level than before.
i actually thought of gettin this phone.. but am i glad i chose da BOLD!!
looks to hard to use. BOLD is amazing still
another good review, the fuze just looks so clunky in hand..
I used to have a winmo device, so I can sympathize.
i actually like this handset
the fuze isnt that bad at all
uh heh - not I think I would have blown a fuse if I had to use that thing lol
all props to kevin for managing to get through the review wow. I don't think
I could have finished it ..
Hello Kevin. First of all, my name is Robin and I like to think of myself as more healthy not round..hahahaha just kidding. Now for my take on the whole situation. I had to laugh when I heard you go through the frustration of trying to navigate the HTC. The reason is because I dealt with the same thing!! The touch screen was not responsive when I wanted it to be, and too responsive when I didnt want it to be. I would wind up calling people by accident, and wind up on screens where I thought, how did I get there? I like to have some semblance of control!! I had gotten the HTC because I had the curve and was giving it to my daughter as a graduation present and wanted to try something new. Well, needless to say, I'm glad to be back with the curve! There were just too many issues that took away the love real fast. One of them being poor battery life, another was that the phone got too hot. On top of that, through in the frustration and you get a very annoying experience. Yes, the HTC had some nice points like having many programs written for it but what good is that if the basic usefulness of it is for naught? I am sooo glad to be back and I will NOT look back. I have an Itouch for MP3 and can enjoy the apple programs while sticking with Blackberry. What a life!!
You must have gotten a bad phone - m Fuze last for 2 days and never gets hot.....
Kevin,
You remind me of ObaMA. Crying to the people for change. The 'Mold will be the last crapberry stab in the market as it is getting rolled over by HTC and the iPhone. (do you even know why crapberry's have lasted? Tell you what, call your local congresswo/man and ask them - bet you'll be surprised to find out how unethical those devices are - if they even tell you (email me if you're too lazy).
WARNING:
So take you time reading this - you're going to hate me but if you ever want to grow - read to the end. I'll set you and crapberry fans straight. Now take it like a man...
It was funny watching our video of you using the Fuze (real name is p2600 using Raphael software - but most crapberry users wouldn't understand what that means as they have no clue how to cook ROMs, do a active synch .exe install or probably even install a .cab - "please provide everything so I don't have to do anything" and most seem to be Macheads (definition of Mac users are the ones that got beat up in school who turned out to be "alternative")
Watching you fumble around with the Fuze reminded me of a three finger monkey "acting" like it was difficult to use (bad acting - what D movie were you in). If that was your first time, you are excused (were you picked last in sports before you dropped out?)
There isn't one thing the 'Mold can do over the Fuze - name it and I’ll bring your challenge on (please email me if you think you got an Ace up your sleeve - I’d love to call your 3 of a kind with a royal flush - actually, I welcome it!)
Let me give you an idea of its power (not talking about its 528 MHz processor - once again, crapberry users are saying "duh, huh?")
- the ability to install tons of after market programs that enables the user to change nearly every setting and preference within it (have you noticed the holy website of mobile phones are more geared to HTC style phones? Oh, what website is that you say, my bad, I should have known you wouldn't know what it is - XDA.
- twice as much RAM!
- 100 x better pixel and refresh screen rate
- You bashed the touchflo response - guess what, it's adjustable to each user - just install Diamond Tweak and you have a ton of user preference changes like by passing the start up screen and scroll wheel navigation and power saving options
- it actually has Blackberry connect built into it (isn't that the whole and sole reason to get a 'Mold or one of its redneck, bucktoothed cousins? yeeeeeeeeeeaaa, I’m going to need you to work on Saturday, yeaaaaaa
- how about to ability to stream live webcam's to the phone (I’ve got 4 ip based webcam's at my house and I can control, turn, zoom and config each of them - day or night) - talk about an incredible feature. It soooo nice to know that if anything moves in your house or office that you will get an SMS immediately notifying you and an email sent with photos - security at your service.
- the ability to take 16 gb (as soon as the industry releases 32gb, its ready to roll!) of videos, photos, You tube (that's one within itself), or downloaded movies and plug the Fuze into any TV and watch it regardless of the size of the TV (I’ve got a 65" Mitsubishi and a projector with a screen width of 12' (yes feet, not inches) and it works fine) = granted its only composite (for crapberry users that means RCA plugs, very good, you get a gold star) but ohhh, once again, tell me if the 'Mold can do that? NOPE
- touch response = when touching the screen thereby getting tiny vibrations letting you know you have made contact (the only other phone that comes with it standard is the sprint instinct) = it is a developer based software but that's what separates us from crapberry and especially iphone'y' users. We evolve, adapt, learn and create rather than just wait until crapiness or Mr. jobs decides what’s kewl and what’s not
- the ability to disable the touchflo (I read one of your fans stated that s/he went back in time to their old stuff because s/he missed the WM screen - moron, give it a go and LEARN or Google if you can change it - surprise, it can do that too (I actually disabled it as i prefer the WM today screen b/c i port in 6 emails and i want them on my today screen
- you can sling your TV to it (once again crapberry abusers, that means you can connect (via the 3G internet) to your home TV and/or dvr and watch whatever you have at home and/or recorded to your dvr (yea, wow is right!)
= want to watch that mork and mindey you recorded or one of your movie channels - in the words of Adam sandler, 'you can do it'
- how about a WM modified weather program that gives you weather alerts in as many cities as you can possibly think of (I heard your wasted comment about missing a city - do our homework and evolve - elecont.com
- the ability to change the PTT button and mod every hard key on it to do 4 things (single, double, triple and hold buttons) = with only 3 buttons that means how many quick links??? (jeopardy song)
- voice dialing except this time you don’t have to pre-record the names or programs - the ROM does it for you.
- voice speaking - the phone will read your email headers, SMS pages, calendar appointments and even more.
- the ability to know when its best to go fishing = an after market software that predicts the high/low tides across the world (oh, not a fisherman - landlubber!
- skyfire - the most intense web browser made (the Fuze already comes with IE and Opera) but this one allows you to tap into any website and all of its content even videos
- regedit - we can and do it - (I’m not even going to waste my time explaining that one to crapberry users - you wouldn't attempt it anyway)
- I read one of the crapberry users stating its a windows based device and wouldn't even try it - yea,,, hey buddy, when you get done having your latte 1/2 and 1/2 with your biscotti, WAKE UP and evolve. There is a reason Windows OWNS crapple even when crapple gives away their so called computers for educational purposes = it's better, plan and simple. Ask crapple why they 1. installed an Intel chip in it to run and 2. created a bi-operating system so you can run windows (GAY!) - I have zero care to get on a leopard
- G-sensor - tilt the phone and spin it - your screen is always horizontal (unless you change it). Oh and don't think for a minute Iphone created that program - thank Sony Ericson for that!
- office mobile with the ability to edit word, PowerPoint and excel files. Yea, nice don't you think?
- GPS - tomtom has done a wonderful job of compacting all of that info in such a small file - hackers have even created voices that sound like celeb's or stereo-types (freaking hell-larry-isss)
- 3.2 MB camera vs. your 2 MWinnee camera - yea, you can't even upload photos that look good to your website as the minimum is 3 megs (and yes, it has video recorder, burst, sports mode, panoramic, magazine) with 2 x zoom as well as a voice recorder that you can email and open with quicktime or media player (or any other player with the correct plugins)
- camera flash - you see, you give it half prop's just b.c the 'Mold has it but what bad is you only see it one dimensional - I’ve created a quick key (hold on my Home Key) and use it as a flash light (50 lumes more than the 'Mold)- wow, what a concept! back to that evolving and learning thing.
- VPN (ok crapberry users, today's quiz, what does VPN mean?) yes, the ability to connect in to a Virtual Private Network
- the ability to use it as a modem out of the box. (yes, you too can teether) I can stream Skype video to my laptop from my phone while driving down I-95 and yes, you can even install Skype to the phone itself!
I could start nickel and dimming but you get the point if you even made it this far and didn't drop out like most flunkies. AND if you're still not convinced, wow, good for you. I bet your one of those people who has to call your 10 yr old in your office to help you reset your router. Yikes!
I will give you this - the phone does have a high learning curve (watching you use it shows perfectly) and most people can't deal with that - the Fuze is more than what most people will ever need (kind of like having a Terabyte drive) and more than most can simply do b/c they stopped learning.
So, lets see if you even keep this post and how many people try to refute the AWESOME POOOOOOWEERRRRRR (I did that in my movie voice)
Thanks for letting me set it straight and get it off my chest - that was FUN!
sDs
PS - Iphone'y' users - give it a break - you can even cut, copy and paste nor send an MMS photo or video to any other phone and all the iphones can do what others cant is use google earth --- oooooooo - b/c thats what i'll be doing with my mobile is playing on that everyday! At some point, stupidity kicked.
G1 users welcome - you already know you can't hang but you have an open platform - that's kudos! You may take over one day but i doubt it.
AHHH WM!:|
Touch Flo 3D looks nice
Not into it all.
If I say a daily prayer to the crackberry gods, will I win a bold? lol
Seems like a similar experience to Dieters.
Hilarious stuff. Glad to see the first impressions getting a little more light hearted.
good
haha
I had an HTC phone once.. they have memory dump issues (confirmed by htc) .. long story short, when all my stuff dissapeared from the phone, I traded it for a Pearl and have never looked back. Great review Kevin (as always)
Maybe you should have called THIS phone the "AH FRACK" phone.. ha ha ha
Just b/c you got a bad phone and didnt warranty it is your fault - every manufacture makes a lemon (crap, just look at the first release of the iPhone....
Kevin,
You remind me of ObaMA. Crying to the people for change. The 'Mold will be the last crapberry stab in the market as it is getting rolled over by HTC and the iPhone. (do you even know why crapberry's have lasted? Tell you what, call your local congresswo/man and ask them - bet you'll be surprised to find out how unethical those devices are - if they even tell you (email me if you're too lazy).
WARNING:
So take you time reading this - you're going to hate me but if you ever want to grow - read to the end. I'll set you and crapberry fans straight. Now take it like a man...
It was funny watching our video of you using the Fuze (real name is p2600 using Raphael software - but most crapberry users wouldn't understand what that means as they have no clue how to cook ROMs, do a active synch .exe install or probably even install a .cab - "please provide everything so I don't have to do anything" and most seem to be Macheads (definition of Mac users are the ones that got beat up in school who turned out to be "alternative")
Watching you fumble around with the Fuze reminded me of a three finger monkey "acting" like it was difficult to use (bad acting - what D movie were you in). If that was your first time, you are excused (were you picked last in sports before you dropped out?)
There isn't one thing the 'Mold can do over the Fuze - name it and I’ll bring your challenge on (please email me if you think you got an Ace up your sleeve - I’d love to call your 3 of a kind with a royal flush - actually, I welcome it!)
Let me give you an idea of its power (not talking about its 528 MHz processor - once again, crapberry users are saying "duh, huh?")
- the ability to install tons of after market programs that enables the user to change nearly every setting and preference within it (have you noticed the holy website of mobile phones are more geared to HTC style phones? Oh, what website is that you say, my bad, I should have known you wouldn't know what it is - XDA.
- twice as much RAM!
- 100 x better pixel and refresh screen rate
- You bashed the touchflo response - guess what, it's adjustable to each user - just install Diamond Tweak and you have a ton of user preference changes like by passing the start up screen and scroll wheel navigation and power saving options
- it actually has Blackberry connect built into it (isn't that the whole and sole reason to get a 'Mold or one of its redneck, bucktoothed cousins? yeeeeeeeeeeaaa, I’m going to need you to work on Saturday, yeaaaaaa
- how about to ability to stream live webcam's to the phone (I’ve got 4 ip based webcam's at my house and I can control, turn, zoom and config each of them - day or night) - talk about an incredible feature. It soooo nice to know that if anything moves in your house or office that you will get an SMS immediately notifying you and an email sent with photos - security at your service.
- the ability to take 16 gb (as soon as the industry releases 32gb, its ready to roll!) of videos, photos, You tube (that's one within itself), or downloaded movies and plug the Fuze into any TV and watch it regardless of the size of the TV (I’ve got a 65" Mitsubishi and a projector with a screen width of 12' (yes feet, not inches) and it works fine) = granted its only composite (for crapberry users that means RCA plugs, very good, you get a gold star) but ohhh, once again, tell me if the 'Mold can do that? NOPE
- touch response = when touching the screen thereby getting tiny vibrations letting you know you have made contact (the only other phone that comes with it standard is the sprint instinct) = it is a developer based software but that's what separates us from crapberry and especially iphone'y' users. We evolve, adapt, learn and create rather than just wait until crapiness or Mr. jobs decides what’s kewl and what’s not
- the ability to disable the touchflo (I read one of your fans stated that s/he went back in time to their old stuff because s/he missed the WM screen - moron, give it a go and LEARN or Google if you can change it - surprise, it can do that too (I actually disabled it as i prefer the WM today screen b/c i port in 6 emails and i want them on my today screen
- you can sling your TV to it (once again crapberry abusers, that means you can connect (via the 3G internet) to your home TV and/or dvr and watch whatever you have at home and/or recorded to your dvr (yea, wow is right!)
= want to watch that mork and mindey you recorded or one of your movie channels - in the words of Adam sandler, 'you can do it'
- how about a WM modified weather program that gives you weather alerts in as many cities as you can possibly think of (I heard your wasted comment about missing a city - do our homework and evolve - elecont.com
- the ability to change the PTT button and mod every hard key on it to do 4 things (single, double, triple and hold buttons) = with only 3 buttons that means how many quick links??? (jeopardy song)
- voice dialing except this time you don’t have to pre-record the names or programs - the ROM does it for you.
- voice speaking - the phone will read your email headers, SMS pages, calendar appointments and even more.
- the ability to know when its best to go fishing = an after market software that predicts the high/low tides across the world (oh, not a fisherman - landlubber!
- skyfire - the most intense web browser made (the Fuze already comes with IE and Opera) but this one allows you to tap into any website and all of its content even videos
- regedit - we can and do it - (I’m not even going to waste my time explaining that one to crapberry users - you wouldn't attempt it anyway)
- I read one of the crapberry users stating its a windows based device and wouldn't even try it - yea,,, hey buddy, when you get done having your latte 1/2 and 1/2 with your biscotti, WAKE UP and evolve. There is a reason Windows OWNS crapple even when crapple gives away their so called computers for educational purposes = it's better, plan and simple. Ask crapple why they 1. installed an Intel chip in it to run and 2. created a bi-operating system so you can run windows (GAY!) - I have zero care to get on a leopard
- G-sensor - tilt the phone and spin it - your screen is always horizontal (unless you change it). Oh and don't think for a minute Iphone created that program - thank Sony Ericson for that!
- office mobile with the ability to edit word, PowerPoint and excel files. Yea, nice don't you think?
- GPS - tomtom has done a wonderful job of compacting all of that info in such a small file - hackers have even created voices that sound like celeb's or stereo-types (freaking hell-larry-isss)
- 3.2 MB camera vs. your 2 MWinnee camera - yea, you can't even upload photos that look good to your website as the minimum is 3 megs (and yes, it has video recorder, burst, sports mode, panoramic, magazine) with 2 x zoom as well as a voice recorder that you can email and open with quicktime or media player (or any other player with the correct plugins)
- camera flash - you see, you give it half prop's just b.c the 'Mold has it but what bad is you only see it one dimensional - I’ve created a quick key (hold on my Home Key) and use it as a flash light (50 lumes more than the 'Mold)- wow, what a concept! back to that evolving and learning thing.
- VPN (ok crapberry users, today's quiz, what does VPN mean?) yes, the ability to connect in to a Virtual Private Network
- the ability to use it as a modem out of the box. (yes, you too can teether) I can stream Skype video to my laptop from my phone while driving down I-95 and yes, you can even install Skype to the phone itself!
I could start nickel and dimming but you get the point if you even made it this far and didn't drop out like most flunkies. AND if you're still not convinced, wow, good for you. I bet your one of those people who has to call your 10 yr old in your office to help you reset your router. Yikes!
I will give you this - the phone does have a high learning curve (watching you use it shows perfectly) and most people can't deal with that - the Fuze is more than what most people will ever need (kind of like having a Terabyte drive) and more than most can simply do b/c they stopped learning.
So, lets see if you even keep this post and how many people try to refute the AWESOME POOOOOOWEERRRRRR (I did that in my movie voice)
Thanks for letting me set it straight and get it off my chest - that was FUN!
sDs
PS - Iphone'y' users - give it a break - you can even cut, copy and paste nor send an MMS photo or video to any other phone and all the iphones can do what others cant is use google earth --- oooooooo - b/c thats what i'll be doing with my mobile is playing on that everyday! At some point, stupidity kicked.
G1 users welcome - you already know you can't hang but you have an open platform - that's kudos! You may take over one day but i doubt it.
is it wrong if I love my Bold but want to play with an HTC Fuze?
Kevin, I've been a little worried about the beating your Bold screen is taking too. Maybe next time before you lend it out you should change the wallpaper and slap on a Pet Store sign, "Do not tap on glass!"
I thought I was going to like this phone but when I went to the AT&T store to try it, I was really disappointed. Instead I fell in love with the Bold, this was before I got my Storm. The keyboard on the Fuze is so wide and looks big but the keys are small and found it hard to type, Bold was 100 times easier to type for the first time. Sluggish phone and bad keyboard.
I want a bold!
And to think I at one point wanted to get a touch pro on Sprint!
Horrible Phone
definitely like one please. the bold not the fuze
Good review; I would not have had that much patience.
Funny Review....but more sad for HTC.
I have my first BB(8900) and i am really really impressed.