{"id":10475,"date":"2016-01-08T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2016-01-08T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T13:16:22","slug":"128366-shiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/01\/08\/128366-shiny\/","title":{"rendered":"128\/366: Shiny!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems appropriate to use a power-of-two day for a new digital device, so here’s a photo of my new phone:<\/p>\n

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My new phone on the wireless charger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Getting and setting this up took up much of yesterday. It’s a Droid Turbo, which is basically the Verizon-branded version of the 2015 equivalent of the Moto X I had previously. Yes, I know, Verizon is kind of unpleasant, but I do just enough travel that the better coverage they offer matters to me. And one of the regularly-cited grievances against them, that they don’t push out Android OS updates as often as other carriers, actually verges on a positive feature for me– I really hate it when I get a decent workflow established, and then a software update moves all the buttons around and eliminates or changes features I use all the time.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s new, it’s shiny, the wi-fi works (one of the reasons I needed a new phone is that the wi-fi crapped out on the old one ages ago, and updates that were big enough that the phone would only download them over wi-fi have been piling up. And I’ve been overrunning my data plan because everything went via that rather than using the home wi-fi network. I’ve had it for less than 24 hours, so I’ve still got a bunch of playing to do to discover new features, but right now, I need to get back to doing useful work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems appropriate to use a power-of-two day for a new digital device, so here’s a photo of my new phone: Getting and setting this up took up much of yesterday. It’s a Droid Turbo, which is basically the Verizon-branded version of the 2015 equivalent of the Moto X I had previously. Yes, I know,… Continue reading 128\/366: Shiny!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,2,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-personal","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}