{"id":571,"date":"2007-01-17T20:41:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T01:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2007-01-17T20:41:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T01:41:37","slug":"iphone-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Followup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been a while since I posted anything. Last time I talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a>, and how awesome it is. Well, now I&#8217;m going to do a (sadly) negative post about the same phone. It has to be done.<\/p>\n<p>So, the downsides of the iPhone. First of all, the keyboard. All the people (very few, but still some people) who used the iPhone said that the on-screen keyboard was tricky to use, and a bit unresponsive. I think Apple would have been better off putting a slide-out keyboard on it, because despite the fact that you cannot change the functions of hardware-based buttons, you can pretty much assume things that need a keyboard will be ok using that keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the screen. That thing&#8217;s going to get scratched.<\/p>\n<p>The back. It&#8217;s part white, part black, all wierd-looking.<\/p>\n<p>The camera: 2 megapixels. This isn&#8217;t horrible, but it&#8217;s not very good for a smartphone camera.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the price. $499 or $599 for the phone, but if you add on the voice and data plans you&#8217;ve spent over $1000 in the first year. While this is average for a smartphone, and this phone is (despite its faults above) much better than an average smartphone, it&#8217;s still extremely pricey.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I wasn&#8217;t planning on getting one anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been a while since I posted anything. Last time I talked about the iPhone, and how awesome it is. Well, now I&#8217;m going to do a (sadly) negative post about the same phone. It has to be done. So, the downsides of the iPhone. First of all, the keyboard. All the people (very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,29,48],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-computers","tag-iphone","tag-life-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}