{"id":709,"date":"2007-01-09T19:15:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/709"},"modified":"2007-01-09T19:15:05","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:15:05","slug":"so-much-more-than-an-ipod-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/709","title":{"rendered":"So much more than an iPod Phone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/apple-iphone.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"195\" width=\"180\" alt=\"apple-iphone.gif\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:5px\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been yawning about the rumors of a phone that&#8217;s also an iPod \u2014 music is the least of the apps that I use on my phone, and I&#8217;m quite happy with my Treo 650. But a quad-mode phone that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\">runs OS X, including dashboard widgets and Safari, with GSM, EDGE, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth<\/a>? Now <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> a big deal! (And just as the future of Palm OS was looking a little shaky \u2014 looks like now I can continue with my life-long dream of never having to use any form of Windows. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially looking forward to playing with is the two-fingered &#8220;pinch&#8221; interface for resizing, something that&#8217;s possible because their touchscreen can handle multiple touches at once \u2014 I&#8217;ve wanted something like that since I saw Sun&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asktog.com\/starfire\/\">Starfire<\/a> concept video back in 1993&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/apple-iphone.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"195\" width=\"180\" alt=\"apple-iphone.gif\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:5px\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been yawning about the rumors of a phone that&#8217;s also an iPod \u2014 music is the least of the apps that I use on my phone, and I&#8217;m quite happy with my Treo 650. But a quad-mode phone that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\">runs OS X, including dashboard widgets and Safari, with GSM, EDGE, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth<\/a>? Now <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> a big deal! (And just as the future of Palm OS was looking a little shaky \u2014 looks like now I can continue with my life-long dream of never having to use any form of Windows. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially looking forward to playing with is the two-fingered &#8220;pinch&#8221; interface for resizing, something that&#8217;s possible because their touchscreen can handle multiple touches at once \u2014 I&#8217;ve wanted something like that since I saw Sun&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asktog.com\/starfire\/\">Starfire<\/a> concept video back in 1993&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}