Trying out a new feature on my phone that will allow me to write more regular blog posts from my new WM smartphone.

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Anyone who knows me has seen over the past 3 weeks that I am completely obsessed with my new cell phone - the htc FUZE. I posted a long review about the phone here. And while this site is still about politics and the world around me that many times pisses me off, it ALSO is sometimes about things I find really cool.

The htc FUZE is an advanced Windows Mobile phone and that means you can program it however you want, tweak it endlessly, and do things to it that most other phones will never be able to do. Well today Google made it even better then it already was with the release of Google Maps Street Views for phones like mine. Basic Google Maps was already available and was fantastic with satellite views, maps for directions, and a variety of other info features.

Now they added the very cool street views you can get on your PC for your phone as well. You can see a video about it here.  The picture to the right is from my phone and of a house a few miles away from where I live. As you can see you can literally see the house, yard, road, cars, and more. Pretty amazing. And you can take it a step further with walking directions with similar pictures, addresses, and phone numbers. It is really incredible and I am continually amazed these days. Such fun!

I consider myself a super power user. Close to 4-6000 minutes a month in phone calls, thousands of emails and text messages, internet use, full use of web applications, etc. I literally always have the phone in hand, or very close by. I have had the phone for about 2 weeks and was a long long LONG time Blackberry user before getting the FUZE. I just felt it was time to upgrade to a WM phone.

Here is my review and thoughts after spending the past 2 weeks reading EVERY website, installing MANY applications, programs, plug ins, etc, and then taking some out if I did not like them. I have installed all the advanced config. tools and tweaked and tweaked for performance, etc etc etc…..etc.

1) The battery life is a joke for power users. So far the phone never ever makes it through the entire day without having to be charged up a little or again somewhere along the way. Now this is not that big of a deal because I can (more…)