{"id":555,"date":"2009-11-11T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2009-12-28T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T14:48:22","slug":"iphone-vs-android-a-close-race-except-in-one-important-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"iPhone vs Android : a close race except in one important area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case I haven&#8217;t mentioned it in the last two posts, I think AT&amp;T&#8217;s cell phone service sucks. And now <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.consumerreports.org\/electronics\/2009\/11\/droid-motorola-verizon-smart-phone-review-iphone-apple-comparison-head-to-head-features-gps-navigation-touch-screen-interface.html\" target=\"_self\">an article on Consumer Reports confirms it<\/a>. When they compared the Andriod phone against the iPhone, the iPhone won in most everything&#8230; except in the all important phone network category. No surprise there. AT&amp;T&#8217;s busted-ass broke-down no good network is so bad, even <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.consumerreports.org\/electronics\/2009\/11\/droid-motorola-verizon-smart-phone-review-iphone-apple-comparison-head-to-head-features-gps-navigation-touch-screen-interface.html\" target=\"_self\">Consumer Reports laughs at it!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what damn good is any phone without a reliable network? It&#8217;s like saying a car has a great interior, a smokin&#8217; engine, carbon fiber detailing, top of the line sound and premium suspension system, buuuuut you can&#8217;t drive it on 90% of the roads out there.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, I&#8217;m loving the new Verizon ads. This one especially&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4JgrBtn8XdU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case I haven&#8217;t mentioned it in the last two posts, I think AT&amp;T&#8217;s cell phone service sucks. And now an article on Consumer Reports confirms it. When they compared the Andriod phone against the iPhone, the iPhone won in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-att","category-iphone","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-8X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}