[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Dramacydle:
I picked up a Fuze yesterday and after all the anticipation, I have to say I'm very disappointed. Having come from the Tilt and the 8525 before that, I was expecting major upgrades with speed, build quality, functionality, etc. but so far, I think my Tilt may trump the Fuze in nearly all categories. Some of what I'm listing have been known for quite a while, but if I'm going to gripe--I'm going to gripe.

1) Reception on the Fuze is noticeably weaker than on the Tilt. I already had issues getting reception in certain parts of my house because my roof shingles are made of stainless steel, but with the Fuze, it's even spottier in areas where I had moderate signal strength. Hopefully, this is because the radio is still immature and is fixed with an upgraded one.

2) Internet latency has been frustrating. Unless I've been in an area with at least a couple of bars while HSDPA speeds are attainable, loading a web page has consistently taken 30-60 seconds. Sometimes the pages would just time out and the loading icon would freeze--other times the entire browser would freeze, whether it be PIE, Opera Mobile, Opera Mini, or Skyfire. Also, sometimes, when I select links, the link I hit doesn't get highlighted/outlined and there's no indication that I actually tapped anything. I'm hoping this is also related to the radio and reception.

3) The GPS lag can get pretty bad. Getting a lock on the satellites hasn't been horrible, compared to my experience with the Tilt (when the Tilt's GPS worked, it worked really well. Other times, it would be downright frustrating to establish a connection). The Fuze seems to be able to get locks, with some assistance from QuickGPS, but it's still been off with updating my location in real-time.

4) The speaker is much louder than the Tilt's, but there's an incessant static buzz that it emits no matter how low/high I've turned the volume. I'm not sure if it's a hardware issue or not.

5) I'm running NATF's 1.2 ROM and it's much faster than the stock ROM, but the Fuze still seems slower than the Tilt, despite its extra 128MHz of processing power. Flipping through the TF3D tabs can get very choppy--possibly resolved with newer iterations with more optimizations.

6) Buttons being on the LCD portion instead of the keyboard portion. This may not affect everyone, but when I press the buttons on the left side, my fingers on the right side aren't always holding the screen in place and I keep finding myself gradually sliding out the keyboard unintentionally.

7) Camera lag. I'm not terribly surprised that it's slow and I'm somewhat used to it from the Tilt, but I was hoping there would be a massive improvement on the Fuze. Also wish there was an automatic flash.

8) Finish/material. This is purely subjective, but I liked the matte and rubber finish of the Tilt. It wasn't as prone to fingerprint smudges as on the Fuze and it made it easier to grip the phone.

9) Size. I know it's smaller and lighter on paper, but I really don't notice a big difference from the Tilt, holding each in one hand and comparing them side-by-side. I was hoping it'd be at least a few millimeters thinner, but that was wishful thinking. I guess there's always the Fuze successor...

10) MicroSD card slot being behind the battery cover. I suppose this is more secure, but I'd rather have easy access to the card.

11) Battery life. This could, and probably is, a combination of a lot of the issues I've been experiencing: poor reception, infantile radio, inability to easily lock on to satellites with GPS, and immaturely optimized software.

It's really unfortunate that they turned out this phone with such high potential and many of us have spent so much money and got locked into long contracts, only to be disappointed. I hope that all the issues are resolved quickly (thank you xda gurus), otherwise my Fuze will be heading back to the store shelf or to eBay and I'll be getting reacquainted with the Tilt. :(

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Update: As I suspected, a lot of my issues are reception related (internet and GPS performance). Partly from the relatively weaker reception of the Fuze compared to the Tilt and partly because my roof is made of steel. I also did some tweaking to my connection settings for my data service and it seems like that gave me a nice HSDPA boost from ~700kbps to ~1.2Mbps. My reception outside of my home and office have been better than on my Tilt, I'd have to say. Maybe I shouldn't live and work in fortress-like conditions. I've slowly been appreciating more of the caveats of the Fuze and I think I'm going to keep it.