Fuze Versus Pure
It’s always hard to tell from photos the actual size of a product unless it’s in relation to something else, so let’s put the Pure next to our good friend the Fuze. What you see is that the footprints are pretty similar except there’s a lot more screen on the Pure (at the obvious expense of a dpad) and the Pure is a lot thinner. The width is nearly identical (53 mm for the Pure versus 51 mm for the Fuze on the spec sheets) so we’ll have to see how that translates in terms of typing without a physical keyboard.
And while we’re at it, here are the box contents: Pure with stylus, lithium ion battery, AC charger, mini-USB sync cable, spare stylus, 3.5 mm audio adapter and Quickstart and CD.
Again, from all indications you can pick this up on Sunday October 4th – yes before Super Tuesday. Every store seems to be saying that is the ‘official’ release date. Of course, the fact that AT&T won’t make it official (while other phones get official dates weeks in advance) goes to the heart of what they think about Windows phones.
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jasmithers I went by my local AT&T store a couple of hours ago (Saturday night West Coast time) and they had a Pure hooked up and ready for display. One store employee who seemed knowledgeable said that the Pure was the only WM6.5 phone he knew of that AT&T was going to make the 10/6 launch date with, and he concurred that they would start selling it tomorrow (Sunday the 4th). There was no pricing listed, and when I asked he said that “pricing isn’t announced until tomorrow.”
He mentioned the Tilt 2, but seemed to think it wouldn’t launch until a ways out, but had no idea on a set date.
I played with the Pure for a little while. It was my first experience w/ WM6.5, so the big icons were a nice surprise. The phone felt very responsive compared to my Fuze (with official HTC/AT&T update ROM from May). Opera was 9.5 build 17658; the zoom bar worked o.k., but not great. There is an AT&T tab in TF3D, but the TF3D settings let you turn tabs on or off and change their order, and there was a check mark by the AT&T tab, so I assume you can turn it off easily.
The Bad News: with Opera in landscape, when trying to enter a URL the virtual keyboard felt really cramped and was hard to use accurately, despite the standard haptic feedback turned on — landscape keyboard on my iPod Touch is MUCH better. Every WM phone I’ve had (Fuze is my fourth) has had a physical keyboard, and the keyboard on the Pure would be a deal-breaker for me, sorry to say…
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Light Yagami I would really like to see the Tilt 2 compared to the Pure… Other than the keyboard what other differences do they have??
The Pure’s price may be cheaper but it can’t be just because no keyboard.
DavidK Light- http://www.fuzemobility.com/the-titans-compared/
that’s the spec differences
Mike Thanks for the disappointing phone AT&T. Should have known you didn’t really want to release a phone that would truly compete with the iPhone. Verizon and HTC Imagio, here I come.
Light Yagami [b]Comment by DavidK
“Light- http://www.fuzemobility.com/the-titans-compared/
that’s the spec differences” [/b]
Reply by Light Yagami
Thank You for link DavidK..
The Pure has a smaller screen, no TV Out, a lower capacity battery and no Straight Talk Noise cancellation but a 5 mega pixel camera compared to the Tilt 2’s 3.2 mega pixel camera…
I don’t know I may side with the Pure on the price alone, the slide out keyboard is my only concern…. (Sooo Indecisive about this…)
[...] FuzeMobility.com has got more pics of the Pure. This time they put it up against a Fuze. According to them the Pure [...]
i still dont get the housing change. i liked the metal bezel. it was so sleek. you never see att change really from standard htc gsm designs. true they have their dirty way with the keyboard, but normally leave the tacky rounding and plasticying to heathen cdma carriers. i havent had any interest in this phone, though if i did this wouldnt sell me. i have to have a hardware keyboard. the only phone i would consider changing for is the tp2/tilt2. even still… leave my fuze behind?