{"id":662,"date":"2010-01-24T20:29:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T02:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=662"},"modified":"2010-01-24T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T02:29:16","slug":"new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"New toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just upgraded my cellphone. I&#8217;ve been using a Blackberry Pearl for a couple of years, and although it was nice enough, I was getting frustrated with it. I&#8217;ve now got a Motorola Droid, and I&#8217;m liking it a lot better. I&#8217;ve already decided that it&#8217;s got its own set of annoyances, but they&#8217;re different, and there are two things that the Droid does that I find to be <em>much<\/em> better for the way I do things.<\/p>\n<p>First, you have to deliberately put the Blackberry Pearl into &#8220;ignore the buttons&#8221; mode; the Droid does that automatically and must be unlocked to operate. I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I&#8217;ve inadvertently dialed someone because my reading glasses or a pen pressed against the Blackberry keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the Droid does GMail and the web <em>so<\/em> much better than the Blackberry Pearl that it&#8217;s an entirely different experience.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also got a host of features that the Pearl doesn&#8217;t. Marion is quite taken by the map capabilities, especially the GPS information that enhances it. In any case, I&#8217;m having a grand old time learning what it can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just upgraded my cellphone. I&#8217;ve been using a Blackberry Pearl for a couple of years, and although it was nice enough, I was getting frustrated with it. I&#8217;ve now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-all-about-me","category-technology","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}