HTC FUZE Smartphone (AT&T)
| HTC FUZE Smartphone (AT&T) |
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 "overall awesome phone" | 2009-09-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2PYQ562XRBAR5 | |
| I'm not gonna list exact details of it's capabilities cuz they have numerous other reviews of that nature. But i will say this, the battery can be your friend or it will be like Ms. Karma and play your [...]. You need a charger and a mini generator at the ready at all times, for if you surf non-stop on the internet and love Twitter; either purchase a second battery or make sure you have a charger and you are near an outlet. I'm not saying get a better phone based on the battery *cuz all smartphones phones drain quickly when on the net*. Also it kept freezing every other 2 or 3 hours and I had to restart all the time, if anyone gets this please phone download its updates and trust me things would be a lot smoother *except battery*. | |
| "Feature-Rich, Tweakable Smartphone, With Some Multimedia Drawbacks" | 2009-09-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2A7THBRZ2OXWW | |
| Much of what the Fuze is capable of/not capable of has already been written in previous reviews, so I'll just pass along my observations after owning the Fuze for just over a month now:
Pros: Beautiful screen and resolution. Web pages and games look amazing. Slide-out keyboard is arguably the best in the smartphone market. A joy to use, especially if you can't stand to type with your fingers on a touchscreen. Combination touch screen, scroll wheel, directional pad, keyboard, and stylus covers every navigation base imaginable. TouchFlo is very cool once you get the hang of it. You can do everything with one thumb. Scroll wheel is great for enlarging Opera-browser web pages, and directional pad makes browsing menus simple if you don't want to use the touchscreen. Bluetooth support is fantastic. I'm using two stereo Bluetooth headsets (Sony and Motorola.) Call quality is excellent, phone interface is simple to use. Upgradable Micro SD slot. I have a 16gb card in the Fuze now, and it will handle up to 32gb. Mobile Windows Media Player integrates nicely with my laptop and PC, so I can create playlists and drag them to the Fuze. I'm also a subscriber to Napster, and the Fuze works perfectly with my "all you can eat" subscription. Hundreds of modifications, 3rd party programs, and tweaks are available for the Fuze, so you're never "stuck" with an out-of-the-box phone. You can upgrade and customize forever. Type "HTC Fuze" into a search engine, and you'll see what I mean. If you're a business traveler (like me) Windows Mobile integration with Microsoft Office is a must, and the slide-out keyboard makes it easy to work on documents in the airport, etc., without having to open my laptop. Cons: Video playback is atrocious. Even though the screen has a resolution of 480 x 640, it will really only play 320 x 240 video without any lag or stutter. Forget Amazon Unbox or any other video that doesn't need to be converted first. No 3.5mm headphone jack. Seriously, who at HTC decided this wasn't a crucial feature? You can plug in a wired headphone through a charger/headphone jack cord that is incredibly inconvenient. Luckily, there are some excellent Bluetooth stereo headsets available to offset this. Equalizer only works when a wired headset is plugged in. Perhaps this will be fixed for Bluetooth in a future Fuze update. Weak battery life. Less than a day's juice with full use, especially if you're using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. I had a Blackberry Curve before the Fuze, and it could go more than a day without a charge. A bit thick, especially with a protective case. Not as wide as an iPhone though, and still fits in my pocket. Camera could be better (it's 3.2 megapixels.) Video recording is simply OK as well. However, if you're serious about photography, your phone shouldn't be your primary device. Overall: I would suggest loading Kinoma Play software on the Fuze for streaming audio and other multimedia features. I use that more than anything else when it comes to Shoutcast and RSS podcasts right now. It fills in the multimedia cracks nicely. If video is a "must have" feature on your phone, then don't think twice about buying an iPhone. If a high-quality camera is a "must have" feature, then check out the latest Sony phones. For everything else though, especially the keyboard, I'd recommend the Fuze in a heartbeat, and with Windows Mobile 6.5 (and 7 too?) on the way, it should really maximize the Fuze's potential. I plan to keep this phone for a long time. | |
| "HTC Fuze - new ROM" | 2009-08-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1KW3H7JOS1RQX | |
| There is a new ROM available from HTC / ATT. I have noticed that it greatly improved the TouchFLO interface as well as improved the stability. | |
| "Good phone and computer" | 2009-07-13 |
| - Reviewed By fhuang38 | |
| Got this phone for 1 month and have the following to share: 1. WiFi is a lot faster than the 3G (HSDPA) network. However, it drains battery fast. A tip, set the WiFi setting to maximize battery usage helps. 2. Hotmail sync. I have 3 MS exchage accounts. I actively sync one and have the other two forward emails to my Hotmail account (setting up new rule in the outlook app). This way, I can use window live to log in and got the message delivered to my phone. 3. Remote desk top works good but the screen is too small to work with. 4. Internet sharing is great. Users can change the registry to allowing connection to ATT Media Net. I tried my laptop working with the phone as a modem. The surfing speed is fine. 5. Camera takes really good quality pictures. The vedio camera works great 6. Google map works great, only user has to get the latest fix from HTC so that it pinpoints user's position. Otherwise, it is way off. 7. FM radio works great. It only works with the adapter that comes with it. 8. It is highly recommended to have an SD expansion card to increase the storage. I will share more when I find out more about the phone. James Huang | |
 "Slow Windows Serious Reception Problems" | 2009-06-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: AMMO4SNGQI42D | |
| I've had this phone for 6 months now and I'm still suffering with it. I just don't have funds to get something else. I've had serious problems with this phone which AT&T is unable to resolve. Please avoid this phone if at all possible. I originally bought this phone solely from the full keyboard feature which is GREAT. But, very quickly other problems overshadowed the useful keyboard. The touch screen has slowed more and more until now it barely registers a touch until the 3rd or 4th time. Then multiple touches will go through at one time leaving you terribly frustrated. It's like Windows Mobil is busy in the background or something and it can't see your commands. Reception is another big problem. I've never had a reception problem at home or at the office until I got this phone. Usually two bars is good, right? WIth this phone, you'll get dropped calls with two bars. E-mail was also a problem and required a patch to work. Unforutnately AT&T didn't know about the patch and I had to find it myself on the Microsoft website. GPS on ths phone is also a big problem. It has the worst reception of any GPS reciever I've seen. Using it in the car is almost impossible. Wireless networking is very bad. It won't automatically switch internet connections between your phone and your home network. First you'll need to disable the phone. Then you'll find that the reception is terrible. Good luck finding a phone. Avoid the HTC Fuze from AT&T. | |
 "iphone or Windows? Easy Answer" | 2009-06-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: AMMO4SNGQI42D | |
| Yes, I have both devices. The Windows phone is by far the best for high end business use. This phone is identical to a typical XP machine running Office. All the same documents can be edited and viewed and, of course, the whole thing centers on Outlook, the most common e-mail software globally. If you're running Windows at work, then trust me, you should also run it on your phone too. It makes the whole world a better place.
Likely the biggest advantage to a windows phone when compare with the i-devices is the expandable (removeable) memory card which allows the phone to double as a portable harddrive. (not available from iphones:( You can quickly play your mp3's on the windows device just by dragging and dropping them onto the phone, then easily asign one to an Outlook contact to get a 'Bad to the Bone' ringtone every time that bike lovin' boss calls you up. Speaking of a great phone, this will sync all your contacts to, or from, Outlook quickly so you can be ready to travel in just a few minutes out of the box. (usb cable included) Important! I must confess that I originally gave this device VERY poor reviews before upgrading the firmware at the HTC website. DO NOT buy this device and use it until you've loaded the latest firmware from HTC! Unfortunantely ATT would NOT help me with this task (which led to the iphone purchase) but it was not difficult to figure out and solved a great multitude of quirks. (This is very important and should not be overlooked.) The Windows device also acts as my modem when I'm traveling so that I can download e-mails to my laptop even while driving. This requires extra money to ATT every month:( Both the touchscreen and the slide out keyboard work great for sending e-mails on the device. The slide out HTC keyboard is WAY better than the touchscreen counter parts on the iphone (yes even better than the 3.0 version). Another big advantage over the i-phone is that you will not need to download itunes software. I'll admit that itunes is a great place to buy music and apps, but when I'm simply trying to put mp3's or business related files onto my phone for travel, I can't stand the program being required. Instead, the HTC makes this simple, when plugged in via usb, the phone looks like an external 'usb style' flash drive. All you do is drag and drop files over to the phone. This is great for transferring files to and from another man's machine who is not running iTunes. Another i-device problem, is that you cannot change out the battery. Anyone like me, traveling for 12 hours a day, will run clean out of battery power on ANY MOBLE Device no matter which one it is, and plugging it into the wall is not always an option (flights or meetings). For the iphone I'm simply out of luck, but for the Fuze I simply have an extra battery and pop it in as-needed. Application flexibility is another great advantage. With the iphone, I have trouble doing two things at once, like talking on the (speaker) phone and writting an e-mail both at once, but the Windows phone this is veryy simple, just like havin two apps open on your PC. Overall a great and very small device that I strongly recommend for anyone needing a business related PDA & phone in their hip pocket. | |
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