{"id":13648,"date":"2020-10-20T21:42:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13648"},"modified":"2020-10-20T21:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T20:42:31","slug":"daily_2106_-_new_phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/10\/20\/daily_2106_-_new_phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2106 &#8211; new phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2106_phone_smears.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nMy old phone &#8211; which I got many years of use from &#8211; is finally dying and I had to buy a new one. There are costs and benefits, as usual. A crisper screen, more storage space, fresher battery. But also the hassle of reinstalling and reconfiguring and relearning.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, even though all the components grow smaller, phones themselves grow larger. I couldn&#8217;t find an Android phone as small as my last one but still with decent battery life and not totally crappy reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Also interestingly, my new phone is super-shiny to the point of ridiculousness. It smudges as soon as I touch it. And it seems so slippery that it would probably be unwise to try and use it wearing gloves. All of which will be cured by a case &#8211; but it does make me wonder what the point is. The shiny surface doesn&#8217;t even look good for more than those first seconds after unpacking the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old phone &#8211; which I got many years of use from &#8211; is finally dying and I had to buy a new one. There are costs and benefits, as usual. A crisper screen, more storage space, fresher battery. But also the hassle of reinstalling and reconfiguring and relearning. Interestingly, even though all the components [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13649,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648\/revisions\/13649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}