[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ducklord:
@pazookie: Thanks for the heads-up, I'm going to try ThumbCal. It would be great though if there was a way to start it up without visiting the Start menu. Yeah, I know that I could use a shortcut program, but the only buttons in Touch Pro that can be mapped to launch programs, if I'm not mistaken, are the Send and End key - and I have both mapped to Task Manager and Connections, so as to be able to terminate tasks and end the data connection so that the costs don't build up. On the other hand, "touch" and "movement" launchers, that use the Touch Panel or the Accelerometer, always seem to crash on me and I have to restart them. Any ideas on an easy way to start more than two apps without searching for them in menues?

@kyoon19: Try posting something to Twitter, like I mentioned earlier, on both the iPhone and the Touch Pro. Or adding a task. Or changing a calendar appointment. I don't even mention browsing the web. I tried it head-by-head with the afformentioned friend, and iPhone beats (my) Touch Pro hands down.

@kyoon19: You mention a shortcut for notes when you open TPs keyboard. Well, not in new cooked ROMs and not in Touch Pro 2. You see, all the rage was in "give us TouchFlo 3D in landscape", and so, the quite useful shortcuts that appear on a vanilla TP have gone the way of the dodo. Does anyone know how to restore them, while keeping the NEW TouchFlo 3D?

Switching between LOADED and RUNNING apps on TP is slower than LOADING an app in iPhone. And TP costs twice as Apples kiddie phone in Greece. I find it unacceptable paying that much for (less than) half the functionality of another device. To put it realistically, I feel like an idiot that payed twice for a crippled, problematic and badly designed device.

You do realize that this is part of the big problem I mentioned earlier: please, visit Handango or any other WM "software collection" and tell me, how much original and useful software can you find for your "smartphone"? Most are apps that could be described as "different versions of what's already in most "normal" phones", ie: calendars, stopwatches, notepads. Where's the "smart" in my smartphone, for wich I paid double what I'd pay for a Nokia "simple" phone? Is there any software that really makes our PDA/smartphone shine, compared to other, "lesser" and "simple" devices?

Does it sync with Outlook? Even the normal Notes app, that's "cooked-in" even in the original ROMs (as it's a feature of WM) takes from 2 to 5 secs to load in my TP, and after that I have to select New Note, change the display, open the keyboard, wait for the screen to realign and then start (slowly) typing. Is there anywhere a note-taking app that I can use both from my PC and my Phone (some kind of syncing between them without the need for a data connection) that can also add tags or categorize the notes in groups? I know, I'm not asking for "a simple notes-taking app", but if I wanted "a simple notes-taking app" I'd buy "a simple phone-taking phone", and not a PDA/smartphone that cost more than twice.

Some people mentioned OneNote. No, OneNote sucks majorly as a notes-taking app in its WM incarnation. The interface is godawful and almost unusable and it doesn't sync both ways. If I wanted that kind of one-way "syncing", I'd still use my 7-years-old Nokia 6600.

Ah, yes, that's another problem. A GPS program consists of two parts: the program itself and the maps it uses. The best maps for Greece seem to come with a program called Destinator, and In Touch Pro its performance is sluggish. The screen takes eons to show updates and the voice mentions that "you should turn right" exactly two seconds before you start waving bye-bye to the road where you should turn. I've checked Destinator (and iGo) on about 6 different devices, and TP seems the only one to be so slow in its usage. I show somewhere (maybe here?) a post mentioning that older devices processors included instructions that made the apps run faster, but the new Qualcomm ones don't. Maybe that's the problem: Destinator (and a lot of other apps) are design for a "platform" (Windows Mobile, in general) that is supposed to work in a specific way. Many devices can be considered totally compatible with this "platform", but some work better than others. Where "others" has Touch Pro as its main representative.

Anyone care to offer his coding skills? Let's create some useful stuff people!

Yes, followed by a snapier camera and a faster GPS, but these two would do. Remember though that part of me being grumpy has to do with the fact that I didn't give a full wage for a device that would let me take notes and manage tasks. I'd be able to do this with ANY phone. It's insulting that we drop to the level of "at least, let's find a way to DO SOMETHING with this brick we're stuck with" instead of "it's worth its money and can do anything it promised it'd do".

Exactly. I tried it and it's good, but takes its time loading and changing "pages", and, as you mentioned, it needs a stylus. It would be great if, at least, after using it, there was a way to display the latest Active tasks/"Next actions" in some page of TouchFlo. Instead I have to jump from main interface to application, from using buttons and fingers to fiddling with the stylus. I know, it's not that much of a problem but... Well... It gets on my nerves..!

That's what I'm using. Would be better with a better interface and tags/categories support.

Nah, if I knew how it works, I'd stay with the Tytn. I found no real use for the accelerometer, VGA resolution ain't much in such a small screen (ie: I prefer reading ebooks in my PSPs lower-res screen than in Touch Pro) and the GPS is almost unusable - whereas Tytn with an external GPS worked almost perfectly. As for the speakers, do what Touch Pro 2 has as "a feature": use it screen-down ;-)

Eeeexactly. We pay for something that I consider broken and we wait for others to fix it for free. What if some day they put their hands up and scream "no more, screw you HTC" like they should from day one?

Well... No. The right analogy would be to say that some people drive a Ford with automatic gears. It gets you nicely where you want to go, and you don't have to manually shift gears. On the other hand, there's a used but nicely painted Yugo, with manual shifting. When you buy it, it sucks and you can't go anywhere without having to get out and push every 5 kilometers. BUT, there's this garage, called XDA, where there are some people that can "push" your engine and add some nice neon lighting. If you manage to get there, and follow their instructions, you'll feel smarter than the guy that uses the Ford with its automatic gear. Because, in the end, you will have a bit of its functionallity, you'll be able to go to most of the places he goes, and you'll do it with manly, manual shifting. And while you tweak, and test, and fiddle with your Yugo to make it work like it should and do almost what the Ford does, he'll be the one that actually drives his car.

Conclusion: If I wanted to fix cars {/phones}, I'd be a car mechanic {/work for HTC}. I want to DRIVE my car {/use my phone}.

Best regards

Ducklord

PS: Does this message take teh win for longest one in the history of XDA?