{"id":9426,"date":"2010-06-01T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T05:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2018-07-14T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T08:16:14","slug":"bye-bye-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/01\/bye-bye-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Well, it\u2019s been a love-hate relationship with the iPhone 3G I\u2019ve been using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/10\/china-apples\/\">for 14 months now<\/a>. The OS interface is gorgeous, and there continues to be a huge store of apps available for it.<\/p>\n<p>But the phone hasn\u2019t been without huge issues too. E.g. paying for utilities which I feel ought to be baseline and built into the phone especially considering that there are phones which already offer that. Like a better SMS facility, or the ability to view Office documents, and document storage.<\/p>\n<p>More seriously though is that since November last year, the phone has experienced SIM card problems which render it completely unusable unless I reboot the phone &#8211; but the freakin\u2019 phone doesn\u2019t even ring out an alarm when it happens to begin with so how would I know.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been keeping an eye on Android phones, and decided this morning to go for a crazily attractive promotion that Singtel was having: basically, the Samsung Galaxy S phone which has won <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s-review-478.php\">rave reviews<\/a>. The phone is suppose to retail at close to a thousand moola: but after completing the online order, it cost me just\u2026 $48.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah \u2013 I was really surprised too! How did that happen?! Well\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The voice\/data plan I opted for will cost <em>less<\/em> than my current equivalent plan with M1 \u2013 wow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Singtel is giving me $150 worth of discounts as a welcome package.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The package also comes with a pair of concert tickets for this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_junior\">South Korean boy band<\/a>\u2026 and people are selling those tickets online now for between $400 to $500.<\/p>\n<p>So, if I were to sell those tickets, I\u2019ll actually be coming out of this arrangement with a new phone <strong><em>and<\/em><\/strong> $400 richer LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Only thing is that I won\u2019t be selling those tickets. Call me crazy; but I\u2019ll be giving them away to my students.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s been a love-hate relationship with the iPhone 3G I\u2019ve been using for 14 months now. The OS interface is gorgeous, and there continues to be a huge store of apps available for it. But the phone hasn\u2019t been<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/01\/bye-bye-iphone\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Bye Bye iPhone<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[551],"class_list":["post-9426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-toys-technology","tag-smartphone","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}