{"id":3650,"date":"2008-04-21T05:32:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T11:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2008-04-21T05:32:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T11:32:25","slug":"the-perfect-cellphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-perfect-cellphone\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect cellphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie and I were talking briefly last night about what would make the perfect cellphone for each of us.<\/p>\n<p>We considered one of the iClones but they don&#8217;t seem to work well with AT&#038;T. Hmmm. But here are some things I would love to see in my &#8220;perfect cellphone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cheaper phone bill (I have the lowest AT&#038;T plan and never use all my anytime minutes)<\/li>\n<li>Clear reception<\/li>\n<li>Dirt cheap txt messaging<\/li>\n<li>Wi-Fi<\/li>\n<li>USB support<\/li>\n<li>GPS with Google Maps<\/li>\n<li>Sync with my contact list and calendar (primarily Gmail and Google Calendar)<\/li>\n<li>Gmail (via Wi-Fi or dirt cheap Internet)<\/li>\n<li>Ability to add software when the need arises &#8211; either Linux based or Windows Mobile<\/li>\n<li>Something that fits easily in my pocket<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bonus Features (not a must):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 4 or 6MB camera<\/li>\n<li>Custom ringtones<\/li>\n<li>Mp3 player<\/li>\n<li>Voice recorder<\/li>\n<li>Super easy Bluetooth use &#8211; for headsets and transferring files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that hard. I just mainly want something that connects with the services and things I already use and adds GPS functionality with Google Maps. A side bonus would be software that would make paperless <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geocaching#Converting_and_filtering_data\">Geocaching<\/a> a breeze &#8211; but that&#8217;s not a must either. And even that would be super easy simply by allowing me to view PDFs on my phone. And that feature in and of itself would be amazing so I could easily carry documents I refer back to from time to time quickly and easily without carrying the paper with me.<\/p>\n<p>So who&#8217;s going to make (and sell me) my &#8220;perfect phone?&#8221; What would your perfect phone look like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie and I were talking briefly last night about what would make the perfect cellphone for each of us. We considered one of the iClones but they don&#8217;t seem to work well with AT&#038;T. Hmmm. But here are some things I would love to see in my &#8220;perfect cellphone.&#8221; A cheaper phone bill (I have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-perfect-cellphone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The perfect cellphone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-WS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}