[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] CHGN:
A bit too much hostility?

Well, as much as I do love my Touch Pro, it has plenty of room to improve. There's nothing really wrong with a few guys saying why they think HTC f***ed them up.

I mean, honestly, video quality is GARBAGE. Yes, there are work arounds and sh*t, and I still do get reasonably sized videos for the quality/length, but I prefer NOT having to convert in the first place like I was lead to believe when I was first going to buy it. Wasn't there supposed to be some sort of fix coming from HTC/Coreplayer? And, seeing the small size of storage (16GB card for me, and yeah, it's puny) I like to play over the network and it's soo slow. That, and the battery life is terrible when you first get it (eventually I did adjust into some habits so I rarely ever get home with less than 10% anymore), but this type of stuff shouldn't happen with 3G/Data oriented phones - especially considering I don't have any Data connections enabled for those 10% days (usually dead when I get home if I DO use Wifi for more than 20 minutes). Underclocking/changing Radio's really helped a lot, but again, I shouldn't need to do these types of tweaks. These two are really the only two big problems that HTC should be slapped for. Next time I'm going to be more careful when getting a HTC Phone (or phone at all really).

As far as Apps go, I have used an iTouch (jailbroken) and there are SOME apps I wish I could get (offline Bus Schedule app, probably more if I looked more), but for the most part, there's nothing I need my PHONE to do that it can't. If I want to play games, it's probably cheaper/funner to get a modded Nintendo DS/PSP for a way longer battery life too. I do wish there were more WOW apps for the Touch (like Diamond Hologram), but this is directed more at XDA/other developers than the actual phone. I mean, I agree that there are more than enough skins and stuff, it's time to get apps to be better integrated with one another (GPS, Contacts, Facebook, etc. being well connected and working complimentary to each other so I don't need to copy paste from facebook to Google Maps/TomTom to find a house or something along these lines). Yeah, it's a step up from what most apps do, but more people not to start heading in this direction when making apps for phones.

As for Apple, I highly doubt I'd ever buy an Apple Product itself (well, pay for it anyways), but there are some things from it that some other mobile OS developers should pay attention to. For one, they know what areas of the phone they should focus more on, like a Huge, Low res screen. You might not be able to play super sexy videos on it, but the low res let's it be less laggy when using apps and stuff. I'd rather have a 4'' 480x320 screen that runs smoothly than a 2'' 1080p screen that kills my battery life and runs like a snail. Higher specs aren't always better.

Maybe HTC'll fix the problems in the future, but there are some pretty minor problems that cause HUGE drawbacks for me (and I'm sure others) and straight up if they fix the battery (not going to happen on this model unless I buy another, larger battery) and especially the problems with media (movies and occasionally some lag with audio - I use coreplayer because kinoma(free) won't play 1/2 my tracks and refuses to simple skip them instead of muting and making me wait track length for next track so I'd be happy with other suggestions) I'd keep hold onto this phone for years to come because it does everything I need (I do usually have to reset it due to Coreplayer related problems which piss me off).