{"id":76,"date":"2009-09-07T17:53:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dansmith.cc\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-09-07T17:53:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:53:51","slug":"new-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"New Phone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I drove up to\u00a0 LA to watch SDSU play at UCLA in football.\u00a0 The game was fun (hopefully I&#8217;ll write up a report later), but during the tailgate, the &#8220;#&#8221; key on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyericsson.com\/cws\/products\/mobilephones\/overview\/k850i?lc=en&amp;cc=us\">Sony Ericsson K750i<\/a> phone broke. Since the &#8220;#&#8221; key is used to help unlock the screen-lock, my phone is now very difficult to use!<\/p>\n<p>I had that phone for over 2 years.\u00a0 I always had a love\/hate relationship with it, as it had lots of great features, but it had lots of small bugs that made using it difficult.\u00a0 (That phone replaced my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyericsson.com\/cws\/products\/mobilephones\/overview\/w810i\">Sony Ericsson W810i<\/a>, which has been my favorite phone ever)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve eyed the <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/www.android.com\/\">Android phones<\/a> for awhile, and today I finally purchased one.\u00a0 I stopped by my local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/\">T-Mobile<\/a> store and purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/www\/product\/magic\/overview.html\">HTC Magic<\/a> phone.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still playing with it, but so far I like it.\u00a0 I was able to get a similar plan to my old plan, but for about $10 less per month.\u00a0 I have 30 days to change my mind, so I&#8217;ll keep you informed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As to why I didn&#8217;t get an iPhone?\u00a0 For a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I already have an iPod Touch.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t really need two iPhoneOS devices<\/li>\n<li>The total cost of the iPhone would cost too much<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d then get an Android device to play with<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I drove up to\u00a0 LA to watch SDSU play at UCLA in football.\u00a0 The game was fun (hopefully I&#8217;ll write up a report later), but during the tailgate, the &#8220;#&#8221; key on my Sony Ericsson K750i phone broke. Since the &#8220;#&#8221; key is used to help unlock the screen-lock, my phone is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[51,52],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-android","tag-phone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}