{"id":107,"date":"2015-08-01T08:32:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T15:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2015-08-01T08:32:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T15:32:33","slug":"i-got-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"i&#8230;got&#8230;a smartphone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>after 11 years of using a pay as you go, take way too long to compose a simple text, no data dumb phone, on saturday, august 18th, and 10am, i finally called it quits and got a smartphone! metropcs has been having a promotion. anson&#8217;s old plan was $40\/month unlimited talk, text, and data. however, they&#8217;ve now changed it to $30\/month, and if you add a line, it is $25\/month each!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>we went to a metropcs store right when they opened. i&#8217;m glad since there was already a line of people. after talking a little to the representative, i settled on the samsung core prime. it&#8217;s a white phone (yikes!) and looks so sleeeek. i didn&#8217;t know that all your google contacts with their emails and numbers can just transfer over to your phone (i know, i&#8217;m a noob). i spent about an hour updating my contacts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>i didn&#8217;t buy a cover at the store since they always grossly overchage ($30???). i got a silver case on ebay that comes with a screen protector and stylist for less than $7. in the mean time, i just put the phone in a ziploc bag in order to protect it \ud83d\ude42 we will be going back to the store this morning in order to change the number to my old number (i didn&#8217;t know my account and pin number from my old phone&#8230;the account number was just my phone number and the pin was my usual security number). happy times!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>i think i&#8217;m one of the last peoples to finally switch to having a smartphone. what do i think? i like it that i can finally participate in line messages not just when i&#8217;m at phone, but at real time. i won&#8217;t miss people&#8217;s app messages that have important info on it. i&#8217;ll have a gps, music player, calculator, easy texting, unlimited calling&#8230;all on one device. yes, battery life is less than 2 days. getting another charger to put at work, but so far, 5 stars!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after 11 years of using a pay as you go, take way too long to compose a simple text, no data dumb phone, on saturday, august 18th, and 10am, i finally called it quits and got a smartphone! metropcs has been having a promotion. anson&#8217;s old plan was $40\/month unlimited talk, text, and data. however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avalon4ever.dragonskies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}