{"id":4746,"date":"2011-09-29T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2011-09-29T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:09:14","slug":"confession-i%e2%80%99m-a-tech-blog-writer-without-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/uncategorized\/confession-i%e2%80%99m-a-tech-blog-writer-without-a-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession: I\u2019m A Tech Blog Writer Without A Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As hard as it is to admit that I don\u2019t have a smartphone, it\u2019s even harder to not actually have one. That\u2019s why I\u2019m rectifying my luddite situation as soon as possible. But where to start? I have unlimited options. I\u2019m not tied down to any carrier. I don\u2019t have any particular loyalties to operating systems or hardware companies. I can afford the best one, but which smartphone <em>is<\/em> the best? I suppose the only true way to go about this is to list my needs and wants and rely on human feedback to help me decide.<\/p>\n<p>My needs\/wants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good coverage in New York City.<\/li>\n<li>A robust app store.<\/li>\n<li>Hardware that feels sturdy and well-constructed, but not necessarily the fastest processor or most pixels. I\u2019m not all about the specs if the end results are comparable from a user standpoint.<\/li>\n<li>Software that can either evolve and update with me or is advanced enough to not be completely outdated in two years<\/li>\n<li>A decent camera (two-way video chat would be a perk).<\/li>\n<li>I could possibly be swayed by specific perks that only certain phones have (iCloud or hooking my Sprint phone up to a keyboard peripheral and using it as a laptop, for instance).<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not getting a Blackberry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So with that short list, I throw my decision to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do <em>you<\/em> think I should get and why? Let me know in the comments section.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hard as it is to admit that I don\u2019t have a smartphone, it\u2019s even harder to not actually have one. That\u2019s why I\u2019m rectifying my luddite situation as soon as possible. But where to start? I have unlimited options. I\u2019m not tied down to any carrier. I don\u2019t have any particular loyalties to operating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[860,81,91,108,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}