{"id":22342,"date":"2004-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/another-new-mobile-phone\/"},"modified":"2004-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T06:00:00","slug":"another-new-mobile-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/another-new-mobile-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"A(nother) New Mobile Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new mobile phone is making it&#8217;s way into my life. I will be my sixth keitai.<\/p>\n<p>My first mobile phone was a DoCoMo flip-phone, circa 1996. It was actually Mariko&#8217;s old phone. It still looks good today, although the screen is a plain old lcd job. The next one I got was a Kenwood &#8220;Dolphin&#8221; from J-phone. That one was a very cool curvy design. It also was super-light. I liked it, although since I can&#8217;t read Kanji, I couldn&#8217;t enjoy all the obscure gadgetry. My next phone (now in the U.S.) was a big, heavy Nokia behemoth. It worked ok, and I could change the color of the faceplate to bright green. One day I dropped it and the battery popped off. The little hinges that held the battery on also snapped off, so I needed a new phone. I opted for a silver Panasonic Versio. This was great. It was as small and light as my J-phone, and you could change the backlight colors. The ringtones were also very melodic. Next, due to financial reasons, I switched to a prepay service from VirginMobile. I chose the Kyocera Slider, which is a great phone. It is tiny, has a nice color screen, good battery life, and downloadable ringtones. I really like this phone, but I decided to go back to a family-plan type service from T-Mobile. Although I saved money in the long run with the pay-as-you-go plan from VirginMobile, it bothered me that I was hurrying my conversations while using it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, on to T-Mobile. Mariko already switched, and uses the Samsung E105, which is very cool. I am getting the same model. It has a big color screen, lots of nice ringtones, downloadable wallpaper, and I will be able to have unlimited nights and weekend minutes, plus calls to Mariko and other T-Mobile phones will be free as well. As a bonus, going through Amazon to get the phone\/plan, I will be making $75 in rebates. The only lame part is that receiving text messages costs me $.05 per, so I won&#8217;t be doing that. But, I can call Mariko to bug her with nonsense anytime without having to pay $.25\/minute. Sorry Mariko!<\/p>\n<p>If you need my new mobile #, send me an email! If you are deemed worthy, you will receive the # shortly. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new mobile phone is making it&#8217;s way into my life. I will be my sixth keitai. My first mobile phone was a DoCoMo flip-phone, circa 1996. It was actually Mariko&#8217;s old phone. It still looks good today, although the screen is a plain old lcd job. The next one I got was a Kenwood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/another-new-mobile-phone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A(nother) New Mobile Phone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5Om","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}