{"id":200,"date":"2004-08-08T21:14:14","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2004-08-08T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T03:14:14","slug":"new-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"New Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian has remained true to his word and is letting me get a new phone this year.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had tons of fun using his old Nokia 3650 (he got a Nokia 3660 and gave me his 3650 as a hand-me-down).<\/p>\n<p>Albeit clunky, my Nokia 3650 is loaded with features.\u00c2\u00a0 Brian has installed old school NES games and I have a neat video recorder that can record as long as my memory card can hold (instead of the default video recorder that only records for a minute or so).\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got it set up to check and send email (a feature that I don&#8217;t really use frequently) and also to send pictures to my various mobile blogs that I&#8217;ve created and neglected.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had some fun times with my trusty Nokia.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s time to say goodbye..<\/p>\n<p>Not quite yet actually because we have to wait for my new phone to come &#8211; but it is coming!\u00c2\u00a0 Brian and I have decided on the Samsung D415.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though it&#8217;s got fewer features than my Nokia 3650, I&#8217;m pretty excited about trying it out.\u00c2\u00a0 For one, it&#8217;s way smaller and way cooler looking.\u00c2\u00a0 So I get a sleek phone, instead of one that looks like a freakin&#8217; tv remote control, for a change.<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung D415 retails for like $350 without signing up for service but with Brian&#8217;s employee discount, he can get it for about $100.\u00c2\u00a0 Not bad.\u00c2\u00a0 He says next year he gets upgraded to a 100% discount, so he can get any phone carried by T-Mobile for free.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will like having the D415.\u00c2\u00a0 If not, I can always go back to my Nokia 3650.\u00c2\u00a0 Brian says that he&#8217;s willing to take my D415, if I don&#8217;t like it and then I would get to pick the free phone next year.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s his way of making up for all the years that he&#8217;s given me his hand-me-down phones.\u00c2\u00a0 I told him that even if I end up going back to my Nokia 3650, I would let him have his turn at picking out a phone next year.\u00c2\u00a0 Although, I may regret saying that later if a T-Mobile decides to carry a really cool phone.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian has remained true to his word and is letting me get a new phone this year.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had tons of fun using his old Nokia 3650 (he got a Nokia 3660 and gave me his 3650 as a hand-me-down). Albeit clunky, my Nokia 3650 is loaded with features.\u00c2\u00a0 Brian has installed old school NES [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}