Latest spy shots show AT&T Fuze defaced with carrier's logo
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Oct 11th 2008 1:10PM
posted Oct 11th 2008 1:10PM
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posted Oct 11th 2008 1:10PM
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awesome! Can't wait to ditch my HTC Touch for something with a crisper screen, more memory/storage and a faster CPU. BRING IT ON!!
I might have forgotten who my carrier was, otherwise. Thanks AT&T. Now when I look at my phone I can be reminded and almost be driven to take a shit on the phone if it wasn't mine.
You're an idiot.
LAWL @ Bassir. No sir, you are the base one.
dude,att is not that bad.
goodness.
what the dude here is talking about is how theres no need for the at&t logo, its like having a direct tv logo on your tv. c'mon! sure its common but still, he has a valid point.
this is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass at&t!! i just wanted to say that.
ima get one of these bad boys from sprint store at full price and see if i can sneak it into verizons network, otherwise im off to sprint. i would do at&t but im not sure of their service in nyc, my building is build like a fort.
It's too bad it's Windows Mobile.
From your comment I have absolutely no idea which phone you would prefer. Please put us out of our misery.
Yeah, too bad it uses one of the most powerful mobile OS out there.
Agreed, afterall Windows Mobile doesn't have copy/paste, can't transfer files (or A2DP sound) through Bluetooth, can't copy songs freely, and doesn't support memory cards because they are afraid you will use it for evil. Oops, sorry, wrong OS!
Has nothing to do with the Apple iPhone or Android for that matter. However, Windows Mobile is bloated, and old. You can skin it all you want. You still have a porky, battery wasting OS underneath it. Apple's Mac OS X-ish mobile phone OS is too locked down and true they left out a lot of key features. Android on the other hand, is too new and not ready for prime time.
You want background processes for certain applications, but with WinMo, unless you actually kill the app, it doesn't go away. That and the start menu, on a phone? Old.
Palm's OS should have died a horrible death years ago. RIM has been having issues as of late.
Android needs some more cooking. Throw that on the AT&T "Fuze" and I think you'll have a great phone.
"Most Powerful Mobile OS's out there" - Yeah it is, that's why your battery lasts 20 minutes, jackass. The most power hungry OS out there.
Hey, Madmike, have you even tried using Windows Mobile 6.1?
I would have agreed with you slightly with windows mobile 6, but 6.1 on the other hand is faster, less bloated, and has less memory leaks than its predecessors. And my battery lasts all day. HTC Mogul by the way. Oh, and my phone can check emails while it's in sleep mode! Isn't that just amazing?
Oh, and as for the start menu, it's extremely useful for keeping constantly used apps organized, and has even been redesigned for Windows Mobile 6.1.
The fact that apps run in the background? Well for me, that's helpful for copying and pasting in between apps. However, if it really annoys you that much, you can easily switch one option in the settings and have it so that when you exit out of a program, it closes without being in the background.
From the sound of it, you won't be buying any phone in the next few years what with the lack of features and structure to fit your needs.
Seriously, man, do some research. Asshole.
Mike, im with what u said..
low rank for all your asses
I actually haven't used Windows Mobile 6.1. But I will try it out.
"It's too bad it's Windows Mobile."
"I actually haven't used Windows Mobile 6.1."
STFU
Ooh, a .1 release is such a big deal. You STFU. Like Microsoft would TOTALLY revamp an OS in a .1 release. Just look at Vista, no its not Windows XP with some eye candy and some extra added nag screens, its a completely different OS. Yeah....
Fanboys, really. Go to college, retards.
It's like comparing XP pre and post SP2. Night and day on speed, security, and overall bugginess. That .1 really can mean something.
yeah too bad its going to be a kickass phone and your iphone cant compare :/
Well that's not true. The iPhone is perfectly capable of many more things than every other phone out on the market. It just so happens that Apple wants you to believe that you don't need the things it's capable of doing. You just gotta believe, man!
(Really, the one thing it lacks more than anything else in terms of hardware is a real bluetooth chipset. This purposely crippled chipset that they call "bluetooth" is nothing more than a fancy way to do handsfree. The potential for the iPhone as a real "life complement" device shot below negative zero when they left that out. Don't worry though, you don't need it. Apple said so.)
I've had the HTC Touch for the past year and now carry the HTC Touch Diamond. I've always thought I had a better phone than the iPhone and that was before I got the Diamond. Now I'm more than certain I've got the better phone. Now that we're done talking about the equipment should we go on to discuss you overpriced wireless plan?
THEY RUINED THE KEYBOARD! WTF! the Touch Pro has the numbers along the top. Why on EARTH would they reconfigure it that way?!?!
It's because they are freaking idiots, that's why.
Jesus man you are right! I just noticed the new keyboard layout which=CRAP! That sucks mega ballz man....well, I shall be importing one then!
Oh for fucks sake. The one phone I wanted to wish for after the Touch HD was taken away. And now AT&T screws up the keyboard. Many somebody's should be fired, why is it suits seem to think they can do anything better than the experts?
Bastards.
It's because they have no standards.
No seriously, they have no standards. If they could just agree on one way to do something simple such as keyboard layout, then they'd be getting somewhere.
Nah. I like number keys in a cluster. It is much easier to hold the "Fn" key with the left thumb and punch out numbers with the right when they are arranged that way.
If you look hard enough you can see there are still numbers on the top.
It's funny, because Jesse and everyone who has replied used significantly more symbols than numbers in their comments.
It might take a little getting used to, but it makes it easier to express your ?!?! outrage with the device.
Is it that big of a deal? I mean can't you have the numbers on the touch screen rather than pressing the physical keys to dial a number?
When I read the "That'd never sit well with the suits up on the 49th floor of AT&T's headquarters (we just made that up, by the way -- we have no idea how many floors AT&T's headquarters has)," I knew you wrote this article!
How much are you getting paid by Engadget, Chris? Whatever it is, you should be making twice as much.
They pay me in friendship and puppies.
I thought it was in friendship and dramatic prairie-dogs.
Well they started to, but he kept losing them. See his avatar.
The Fuze is the Touch Pro?? Why the hell did I think it was going to be the Diamond? I'm so getting this.... and then removing the carrier logo with that sugar trick...
everyone who has used the fuzes keyboard layout actually prefers it
it makes more sense. you use the symbols more in typing then you do numbers plus its much easier to type numbers when they are grouped like that instead of having to find them along the top
try it before you get all crazy about it
I wouldn't think that many people would really care about the AT&T logo. Pretty much every manufacture phone has it, except for the iPhone. Plus you can always scrape it off, its not like its engraved or embedded.
Jonathan
What did they do to TouchFLO3d?! It's beautiful on the unlocked version and then Sprint put ugly neon colors on it and now ATT put even worse light colors. I'm so pissed!
And then that's where XDA-Developers come in...
Uh yeah.. you can modify TF3D extremely easily these days. Im running the GSM TouchFlo3D on my Sprint Diamond. Its a relatively minor issue.
Ugh. Excessive carrier branding. That really kinda ruins the experience, don't you think?
They should have kept Touch Pro the original way it was designed, keep the same name, drop the AT&T logo on the back instead of obtrusively on the front, and remove the custom AT&T content. I can't believe HTC let AT&T run amok with the phone. I guess sometimes money matters more than consumers.
The logo is lame and will come right off. And as for the software I'm gonna put a custom cooked rom on the second I get one. I just don't think there was any justification for the keyboard shuffle.
The sad truth is that if you really want a touch pro without carrier's crap... you have to pay $900.
Or you can flash the whole rom if you dont really need waranty...
Even with a reconfigured keypad, it is still one of the most sleek and powerful phones to run Windows Mobile. I'll take one please.
They have defiled touchflo3d too as I can see... Oh well reflash with a custom rom from xda-devs as soon as I get it.
dont even need a new rom you can simply adjust TF3D it isnt hard
'Spy shots' of a phone that I'm already owning for 3 months?
Cons:
- Scrolling isn't always really smooth because WM6 lacks a good graphics engine (this compared to the iPhone)
- Virtual keyboard appears in landscape mode too, while you have the keyboard open and there is no setting to disable this (though this is a minor firmware issue)
- Only supports Wireless-G (poor support for B)
But on the whole it's a great phone with great organizing and media capabilities.
Why is it better than the iPhone?
- MicroSD slot
- QWERTY keyboard
- Front-VGA camera
- WM 6 (I like this feature because I can write software for it and also because I can play Guitar Hero 3)
- You don't have to marry a service-provider (at least in Europe)
Most americans have to wait months after you europeans and asians get your fancy-schmancy gizmos.
Weep for me, I'm Australian.
Its 250$ (+3 year contract) in Best Buy Canada on Telus.
Is this the HTC Raphael?