{"id":1295,"date":"2010-05-12T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2010-07-11T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T23:36:38","slug":"i-want-a-dumb-phone-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2010\/05\/12\/i-want-a-dumb-phone-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I want a dumb phone again."},"content":{"rendered":"

My smart phone doesn’t make me feel very smart.\u00a0 I don’t like the constant chirp alerting me to new email.\u00a0 I don’t like the inconvenience of a touch screen keypad when responding to in-call key prompts.\u00a0 I don’t text, ever, and I don’t like responding to emails requiring lengthy explanations on a 4″ QWERTY keyboard.\u00a0 I feel bad for allowing myself to become so mentally dependent on a device.<\/p>\n

I really want a phone that has good battery life, doesn’t require a slide and 10 taps to dial and makes noise only when it’s suppose to.\u00a0 Like when a call is coming in.\u00a0 The problem is I’m an IT Director.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m suppose to be “geeked out” with this hi-tech stuff.\u00a0 The owner and CFO of the company carry smart phones, an iPhone and a HTC Tilt 2 like mine.\u00a0 Wonderful.\u00a0 Now we can all struggle to communicate at once.<\/p>\n

Does anyone care if I update Facebook or Twitter announcing what restaurant I’m in?\u00a0 Is it critical I take pics of my kids with a poor resolution camera to upload immediately (I don’t do that anyway)?\u00a0\u00a0 And how has it gotten to the point where I feel obligated to pick up my phone and check an incoming email whenever I’m driving the car.\u00a0 Which is really cool since it’s illegal now.<\/p>\n

Truth is I want a phone to be something unique in the modern world of technology – a phone.\u00a0\u00a0 Because of corporate image and communication expectations I will carry this convoluted gadget around so all the high school kids will think I’m important because I’m a really connected guy.\u00a0 You know, hangin’ out, texin’ whanot…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My smart phone doesn’t make me feel very smart.\u00a0 I don’t like the constant chirp alerting me to new email.\u00a0 I don’t like the inconvenience of a touch screen keypad when responding to in-call key prompts.\u00a0 I don’t text, ever, and I don’t like responding to emails requiring lengthy explanations on a 4″ QWERTY keyboard.\u00a0 … Continue reading I want a dumb phone again.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}