{"id":129,"date":"2011-12-03T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T22:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/?p=129"},"modified":"2011-12-03T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T09:55:57","slug":"pre3xistence-day-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2011\/12\/pre3xistence-day-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre3xistence: Day 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the enthusiasm of last night, this morning&#8217;s cold hard daylight revealed a clean cutover would require some additional tools (like a micro-SIM tray). These will be acquired post-haste.<\/p>\n<p>In the meanwhile, I have been <del>playing<\/del> carrying out detailed testing of the Pre as a fat iPod Touch.<\/p>\n<p>Items of note from day zero:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the hardware design &amp; build quality are second only to Apple in terms of polish and fit &amp; finish<\/li>\n<li>initial setup is surprisingly similar to iOS 5 (or, given webOS predates iOS 5, should I say iOS &#8220;borrows&#8221; a lot from webOS in the setup department)<\/li>\n<li>the touchstone charger is pretty darned cool, in the &#8220;I&#8217;m living in the future!&#8221; kind of way. We&#8217;ll see how functional it is over the next few days<\/li>\n<li>there being no onscreen keyboard seems more annoying than it should be<\/li>\n<li>the gesture area is a very nice feature<\/li>\n<li>Firmware version 2.2.1 is buggy as anything and wants to crash every 3 hours. 2.2.3 seems much more stable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the enthusiasm of last night, this morning&#8217;s cold hard daylight revealed a clean cutover would require some additional tools (like a micro-SIM tray). These will be acquired post-haste. In the meanwhile, I have been playing carrying out detailed testing of the Pre as a fat iPod Touch. Items of note from day zero:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-webos","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RxuW-25","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}