OK, I have unboxed the Qwest Fusion and set the HTC Advantage down for a bit to check it out. The Qwest Fusion is basicly the HTC Libra which is basicly the CDMA version of the HTC Vox. You know, that cool "Smartphone" with the slide out keyboard. You can check out the gallery of pictures I took here too.

The Qwest Fusion can be purchased from Qwest subsidized at $199.99. The Fusion has a 400mhz Processor and plenty of memory too!

I fell head over heels for the Samsung Blackjack a while back and really go used to using a smartphone, but since then I have gotten onboard with the Treo 750 and continue to love it. The 1st thing that had to be done with the Qwest Fusion was to try to stop myself from tapping the screen. I was still tapping the screen by instinct at lunch time. FYI... Solitaire stinks without a touchscreen.

Several calls, a dozen emails, and lots of digging around. That was all yesterday brought on for the Fusion. I hammered on it good yesterday. When I got home, I set the phone on my desk and it let me know that it wanted some AC power about 8pm. So, it got a workout and I was able to run the battery down. Is that a good or bad thing? I say good. If I can play with a phone (more than just texting and making calls) all day and still have juice when I get home, I am happy. After a day like yesterday for it, I can imagine that average use will get me 2 days of battery life. Time will tell. I put the Fusion down in favor of the Mogul today though.

All along, I have always shunned the t9 input method, so looking at a standard candybar would not be ideal for me, but the slide out keyboard on the Qwest Fusion changes everything. I can have my cake (a smaller smartphone) and eat it too (without the limitations of T9) now. Yup, I can slide it out and text, reply to emails, and more now. I know their are teens out there that can t9 text 4 words to my 1, but still.

I didn't always have a great signal inside. I am fairly sure that this is no fault of the phone. This building has RF shielding to an extent. Outside of here, the CDMA Signals are acceptable and the call quality is great. For the couple folks I talked to yesterday inside, sorry about that. It wasn't until I talked with my wife that I realized it was a poor signal.

Speed. This thing is peppy! Enough said.  Still got a lot of messing around with it to go, but so far so good!

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