Fuze rears its glossy head in some AT&T stores

Can't be long now, right? First we had dummies, but these are the real deal, ladies and gentlemen -- a little over five ounces of HSDPA, VGA, TouchFLO 3D, QWERTY, and likely a bunch more letters and numbers we're not recalling at the moment. Retail Fuzes are trickling into stores as we speak, though they're apparently going under lock and key; as far as we can tell, none will be sold until AT&T drops the green flag. In the meantime, Sprint, pimp that Touch Pro of yours as hard as you can, because we're afraid your exclusivity is about to end.

[Lowest Ranked @ Nov 10th 2008 5:30PM]

This phone is all sorts of sexy.

[Evangelion @ Nov 10th 2008 8:20PM]

Yes, sexy indeed. =]

[Frankenstein Black @ Nov 10th 2008 8:23PM]

Wait until you slide the keyboard open and get that blade unsheathing sound FX ;^)...

[Richard @ Nov 10th 2008 9:57PM]

I'll be getting mine tomorrow morning. Tried today but they wouldn't pull one out of the back room for me :(

[bboston7 @ Nov 11th 2008 3:24AM]

I wanna fuck it

[OneLove @ Nov 11th 2008 11:37AM]

AT&T is the devil!

[iTechWorld @ Nov 10th 2008 5:32PM]

YESS

[FLaSHBaCK @ Nov 10th 2008 5:32PM]

**GASP**
(*runs to att)

[Peter @ Nov 10th 2008 5:34PM]

Now if only Rogers would step in and get this phone; as long as the data plans are not the same prices as the iPhone.

[iEye @ Nov 10th 2008 6:06PM]

Over Ted's dead body.. and from hearing the way he ended up in the hospital it should be there for a new years release!

Yes Yes I know tastless, but this is the same man who stood between the release of the 1st Gen iPhone in Canada.. so that is what you get...

[Dopefish @ Nov 10th 2008 6:50PM]

Love your Commander Keen avatar! First computer game I ever player



aahhh memories....

[Valicore @ Nov 10th 2008 7:37PM]

iEye, Ted Rogers is the devil and I hate him. Nearly 90 percent profit increase and cutting commissions in half for workers just before Christmas. Bastard. And I'm not even Canadian.

[Peter @ Nov 10th 2008 7:54PM]

@Dopefish:
I owned all six plus Keen Dreams; nothing these days compares to the level of fun of the old DOS games. Keen 5 was my personal favourite.

[Dopefish @ Nov 12th 2008 12:54PM]

4 was always my favorite. I went ahead and bought them all off steam the other day, still find them amazing and incredibly nostaligic.


Still have the original floppy versions which in the "about us" section had a bit saying "coming soon, QUAKE...3d graphics in 256 colors, imagine that!"

[kjb434 @ Nov 10th 2008 5:36PM]

I like that HTC is putting there names on the phones more. Many users of HTC phones don't even know they are using one.

[diulei @ Nov 10th 2008 7:39PM]

Couldn't agree more. I've been wondering when they would stop the white-labeling business plan. I'm sure it helped in the short term to get there phones subsidized by carriers, but it's probably terrible for brand recognition which would have hurt down the line.

[Zinger314 @ Nov 10th 2008 5:38PM]

What would happen if the iPhone and Fuze had sex?

[KAIKAI @ Nov 10th 2008 5:39PM]

iFuze

[telepheedian @ Nov 10th 2008 5:54PM]

They would Fuze.

[Abuzar Baloach @ Nov 10th 2008 6:07PM]

Touch HD

[frank Da Tank @ Nov 10th 2008 6:17PM]

iReFuze?

[Mobius_1 @ Nov 10th 2008 6:17PM]

Steve Jobs would suddenly start to shudder, uncontrollable, violently, then start to collapse in on himself and turn into a black hole which eventually consumes this planet and beyond.

[cwj @ Nov 22nd 2008 11:10PM]

If they were both open and sensitive to each other's needs?

Phonegasm.

But open's not really what either does so....(shrug).

[FLaSHBaCK @ Nov 10th 2008 5:39PM]

Question: Is the Fuze going to be available with a 2 year upgrade WITHOUT a personal PDA/data plan? Because I really would like to not have to pay 30$ more a month for a data plan.

[adamantypants @ Nov 10th 2008 5:45PM]

From ATT's forums, I've heard no. From most other places, yes. I think it mostly depends on who your sales associate is. I've personally had a smartphone for 2 years without a PDA plan, just a basic text plan and unlimited media net.

And good luck to anyone trying to find one today. I've contacted maybe a dozen stores in the Las Vegas area since this morning without luck.

[theburn160 @ Nov 10th 2008 6:54PM]

just an fyi, if you ever upgrade to another pda that media net plan will automatically be kicked off and can't go back on

[adamantypants @ Nov 10th 2008 7:00PM]

Thanks, I didn't know that. But it kinda makes sense. It's hard to see anybody downgrading from a PDA/smartphone to a regular ol clamshell. I hope they don't catch my plan.

[Brian @ Nov 10th 2008 11:22PM]

yes you can buy it without a pda plan you just dont get that 20 dollar discount

[zen313 @ Nov 10th 2008 5:42PM]

Hmm... my local AT&T store sold me the only one they had on Saturday!. ;-)

[David @ Nov 10th 2008 5:44PM]

I'm gonna hold out till I see the LG incite(since the Omnia is pertty much dead for at&t) before I make a purchase. The Fuze is nice but I've had this form factor already. Odds are the incite will disapoint and I'd get the Fuze anyway.

[iEye @ Nov 10th 2008 5:45PM]

This reminds me of a prank someone played on a person who did not scoop up after its dog...
But in this case you get to see the Shite before the unboxing!!!

:-D

[FLaSHBaCK @ Nov 10th 2008 5:58PM]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Ur funny.
get a life kid.

[pkort @ Nov 10th 2008 5:47PM]

FuzeMobility.com is doing a nice job covering it, and have some very nice original articles for you once you have your device.

[cavedude13 @ Nov 10th 2008 6:06PM]

I second that, they're doing a great job for the obsessive among us.

[Spartan2x @ Nov 10th 2008 5:59PM]

I just wish they would have kept the name Touch Pro....I am not really Digging the Name Fuze. But then again Sprint already called dibs on the original name, so I can see ATT not wanting people to get the 2 phones mixed up when some people can not understand the difference from a CDMA and a GSM phone.

[OneLove @ Nov 10th 2008 6:16PM]

You can call it whatever you want.

[frank Da Tank @ Nov 10th 2008 6:09PM]

Legitimate question here, not trying to be an idiot fanboy. lol.

Why is this phone a big deal compared to other touch smart phones? Seems to have all the same features but no Apps like G1 or iPhone?

[iEye @ Nov 10th 2008 6:19PM]

Because people are sheep consumers that cannot stop spending $$$ every month on shite they shink they need...

i have found that the iPhone is the gadget that i will be content with for years to come... Once you have found your car/phone.. you will not be tempted to buy anything else no matter if it is $0.50...

[cavedude13 @ Nov 10th 2008 6:20PM]

handango is showing over 7000 apps for windows mobile at the time of this writing. it is the iphone and g1 that is new to the app game

[neodorian @ Nov 10th 2008 6:20PM]

Sure there are apps. Windows Mobile has hundreds of apps. They just don't have an app store model. The marketplace model makes it a little easier but the flip side is that the phone maker has a lot more control over how you get your apps. It's simple to install an app on a WinMo phone anyway and the number of apps makes up for the decentralized downloading. I have yet to find a replacement for many of my apps on the G1 or iPhone so unfortunately I have not had the option of trying either of these new phones. Sprint has had this phone a little while and honestly I don't know why they don't push this over the Instinct or whatever. I guess they realize that unlike our techie audience, many people don't want any learning curve and while these WinMo phones are some of the most functional out there, they aren't idiot-proof like the iPhone or some of the recent feature phones.

[Surur @ Nov 10th 2008 6:23PM]

Its not actually a legitimate question.

Its an incredibly stupid question. Its like asking "Why is it a big deal that Barak Obama was elected president."

It just displays your total and absolute ignorance.

[frank Da Tank @ Nov 10th 2008 6:27PM]

I disagree, i think it shows your elitist small mind. Yes I am ignorant on this topic. But unlike your ignorance I seek to understand not dismiss.

Maybe say something constructive instead of your poor association to national issues and a fucking phone. moron.

[C @ Nov 10th 2008 6:32PM]

No apps??
There's a lot more apps out for windows mobile than there is for android and iphone...
and you don't have to jump through a bunch of ibullshit hoops to download them.

[Mr_Armageddon @ Nov 10th 2008 6:32PM]

VGA (640 x 480) Screen Resolution is a big plus, as is the ability to install any application YOU want to, not only those that Apple says you can install on a device that you purchased.

[cwj @ Nov 10th 2008 6:37PM]

vs iPhone - it's got a keyboard, mini-USB and our current smitten-ness with HTC

vs G1 - what has been reported (and I fully expect to agree) a better keyboard, Android doesn't play with Outlook, some popular files types (like pdf) yet.

vs both - WinMo's established thousands-deep software library. It may not be open, but development on that platform is goes back close to a decade now. No need for a "market", per se.

[frank da tank @ Nov 10th 2008 6:45PM]

@cwj: thanks! Awesome info! Had no idea so many apps where already in place. Thanks for the comparisons as well.

[Boku @ Nov 10th 2008 7:35PM]

@cwj:

vs iPhone: dont forget you can replace the battery, better camera (not much but 2mp to 3.2mp)
but iphone is thiner, and has a audio jack, cheaper

vs G1: G1 is a lot cheaper.. rofl..

[narutogrey @ Nov 11th 2008 2:48PM]

For those of you that say there are more Windows mobile apps than iPhone apps, do some research! That statement may have been true last month, but as it stands today, there are more iPhone apps than Windows mobile apps. That is pretty amazing considering that app development on the iPhone is less than a year old, whereas Windows had app development since the original windows CE before smartphones existed. P.S., you have to count the jailbroken apps too. Don't just count the official App store apps, or else you'll be tens of thousands of apps short.

[Sridhar3 @ Nov 10th 2008 6:19PM]

And Verizon gets the shaft once again. Why do they not have any good phones?

[Jon Nelson @ Nov 10th 2008 6:30PM]

Look at T-Mob. For the longest time the best they had were the Dash and Wing, and then picked up the G1 out of nowhere. Hold your horses, I'm sure VZW will catch something good eventually.

...and hopefully they won't decimate its innards with ridiculous restrictions.