{"id":180,"date":"2009-04-26T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sofiak.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2009-04-26T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T16:15:59","slug":"gadget-agoney-what-smart-phone-to-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/gadget-agoney-what-smart-phone-to-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadget agoney: what smart phone to get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to make up my mind on what phone to get. This is my wish list (more or less in priority)<\/p>\n<p>1. GPS with Google Maps<br \/>\n2. QWERTY keyboard &#8211; I don&#8217;t particular want &#8216;get use&#8217; to screen keyboards.<br \/>\n3. Unlimited data plan and not too expensive plan.<br \/>\n4. Do my emails, Twitter, IMs from the phone<br \/>\n5. Good camera that does video too<br \/>\n6. I need be happy with it for the next 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want an iPhone. Even though it is a groundbreaking product but I am not interested in having one &#8211; mainly due to point 2 and that I am not an Apple fan. I had my eyes on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellphone-reviews.co.uk\/2009\/04\/vodafone-htc-magic-google-g2-review.html\">G2<\/a> however after finding out it does not have a QWERTY keyboard, back to square 1 again. Someone at <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.techcrunch.com\/2009\/04\/20\/geeknrolla-the-agenda-for-the-day\/\">GeeknRolla<\/a> mentioned that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dialaphone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2378\">Nokia&#8217;s N97<\/a> might be released soon and that looks like a sweet phone. Question is when it is due &#038; how much will the plan be?<\/p>\n<p>Point 3 rules out a Blackberry since they have rather expensive plans unless there is a good deal out there.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried the G1 and I liked it but in general I hold some reservation of the first generation of any product.<\/p>\n<p>While writing this, I am missing the reason why companies will not publish the release date of their products. Their reason is &#8230; &#8230;? It can&#8217;t be that customer should do an informed decision.<\/p>\n<p>And in the mean time until I make up my mind, I am missing not having a smart phone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to make up my mind on what phone to get. This is my wish list (more or less in priority) 1. GPS with Google Maps 2. QWERTY keyboard &#8211; I don&#8217;t particular want &#8216;get use&#8217; to screen keyboards. 3. Unlimited data plan and not too expensive plan. 4. Do my emails, Twitter, IMs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sofia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofiak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}