I think Tilt to Tilt 2 customers won’t have an issue.

I was on the fence for the Pure with the 5MP camera. But ended up with the Tilt 2 because of the keyboard and speakerphone, being a business user.

Office Communicator Mobile works great. Perfect screen size.

Some weird quirks, but I think it’s me getting used to WinMo 6.5.

When it’s ready. Not ready yet.

Oh wow, I can hardly wait

Firstly those extra pixels which you dismiss as not being worth it, well, nevermind, you did play with demos yourself but to me they feel great and just that improvement alone is worth the cash and the couple millimeters of relative slenderness are also a nice welcome (weight notwithstanding). Yes it’s thicker than the iphone but the Pure isn’t if you don’t care about hard keyboards.

I didn’t benchmark the thing but when I play xvid/divx video on TCPMP with no settings tweaks I’m getting very smooth playback of videos that would stutter intolerably on the Fuze. Something’s responsible for that and it could be hardware. The new Manila is better, Sense 2.5 if you flash a rom with it is excellent with some surprises on landscape.

The speaker is also substantially improved. Sounds almost like a real speaker. That’s nice. When my phone rang and then gave me a reminder notification I didn’t recognize that it was my phone because it sounded like a stereo not a tin can. Didn’t try speakerphoning but I imagine it’s a lot better with this one, based on the marketing at least.

The stock battery packs an extra 160mAh, though I guess you’d come out about even with the larger screen to feed which again is great.

The radio seems about the same, maybe a bit better as I still haven’t had one dropped call since I got it, but I don’t get reception in my elevator as with the Fuze but unlike the first Tilt which had a bar. This could be unrelated and a fluke but on speed tests I’m seeing 1500kbit/s which is about double what I typically got in Manhattan. But I don’t know why that would be related.

GPS seems to be a lot better. I get a lock from a cold start in ten to thirty seconds in NYC including on side streets or in a taxi. Also at least with BeeLineGPS the lag seems improved and it’s more aware of how fast I’m walking consistently without dropping down to zero a lot when in the city. Could be my imagination though, having been waiting for this phone for so long.

In case you care you got a larger keyboard.

Also they put a zoom slider thing a la Opera’s zoom slider right below the screen.

Downsides include a slightly different keymap and key alignment that will take a week to acclimate to. It’s noticeably heavier. It’s expensive. It’s really expensive if you don’t fire up a new two year contract which also sucks if you’re having second thoughts about AT&T, something which is especially understandable if you live in Manhattan at least. Another downside is you’ll need another holster, if you like extra batteries you’ll have to get new batteries, not sure where to go for either (yet).

No more DPad but the DPad sucked anyway.

But the first thing one ought to do when they get this phone is get hardspl on it and flash a custom rom. I’ll go into that in detail on a new site i’m gonna unveil shortly.

I just can’t justify retiring my Fuze for this device. Sure if it was free but spending $300+ for a larger screen is uneasy for me. If the Tilt2 had a faster processor or more memory or something new, I’d jump aboard.

The tilt2 is basically a Fuze in new housing.