{"id":231,"date":"2010-01-31T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T23:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-01-31T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T23:31:48","slug":"android-in-da-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Android in da house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My SO picked up an Android-based mobile yesterday and I am soooo jealous.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the HTC Magic that was launched in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techworld.com.au\/article\/304851\/htc_releases_magic_android_local_market\">May last year<\/a>. I had used the phone previously in testing, but now I can really play around with it.<\/p>\n<p>Only after a few minutes with the Magic you learn how far ahead (in terms of usability, at least) the modern touch-centric mobile operating systems are compared with the older key-centric ones.<\/p>\n<p>The only disappointment so far is many of the service-based apps (mail, calendar, etc) are tied to Google and you need to sign up to use them (at least in the first instance). <\/p>\n<p>Our next step is to get the Android Market (app store) happening for access to all those applications. Now I really can&#8217;t wait until my contract ends in six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My SO picked up an Android-based mobile yesterday and I am soooo jealous. It&#8217;s the HTC Magic that was launched in May last year&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,21,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-hardware-peripherals","category-google","category-linux","category-mobile","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}