{"id":160,"date":"2007-10-08T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2007\/10\/another-day-another-phone\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T22:08:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:38:32","slug":"another-day-another-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2007\/10\/another-day-another-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another phone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/uploaded_images\/k810i-722025.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/uploaded_images\/k810i-722023.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since I <a href=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2007\/07\/lost-phone\">lost my phone<\/a> in July, I&#8217;ve been putting off buying a new one because of a financial crunch (thanks to crappy employers <a href=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2007\/08\/rant\">under-paying me<\/a> and the bloody <a href=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2007\/07\/foul-air\">malaria<\/a>!) I kept using my 3-year old LG with it&#8217;s scratched body, non-functioning buttons and annoying interface!<\/p>\n<p>Well, that LG finally breathed its last. It just switched itself off quietly and refused to come on again one morning. Typical. I was not ready to buy a new phone as yet but I had to spend on one now.<\/p>\n<p>I had been lusting after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyericsson.com\/spg.jsp?cc=SG&amp;lc=en&amp;ver=4000&amp;template=pip1&amp;zone=pp&amp;pid=10804\">Sony Ericsson K810i<\/a>. Mostly for its looks, but also for the decent 3.2MP camera it packed. It was more expensive than I wanted to spend, but I went ahead and bought it anyway. And I&#8217;ve never been happier about my phone!<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take me long to install a few games, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operamini.com\/\">Opera Mini<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/mail\/index.html\">GMail app<\/a>. Not to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xk72.com\/midpssh\/\">SSH<\/a>! Bliss!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I lost my phone in July, I&#8217;ve been putting off buying a new one because of a financial crunch (thanks to crappy employers under-paying me and the bloody malaria!) I kept using my 3-year old LG with it&#8217;s scratched body, non-functioning buttons and annoying interface! Well, that LG finally breathed its last. It&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2007\/10\/another-day-another-phone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another day, another phone&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[55,67,4,9,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}