{"id":536,"date":"2006-05-30T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T10:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/76af5038fc68777f4d9a08f74d1e7c25"},"modified":"2006-05-30T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T10:04:01","slug":"mobile-device-convergence-is-not-nirvana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Mobile device convergence is not nirvana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As evidenced by a piece highlighted at <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/Slashdot\/slashdot?m=5710\">Slashdot<\/a>, many consumers are eschewing the all singing, all dancing mobile device in favour for something that does a simple job and does it well.   <\/p>\n<p>I can only concur with these findings.   <\/p>\n<p>I'm in the market for a mobile phone at the moment - my T68i, purchased almost as soon as they came out, is just beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Four years is a long time in technology, and particularly for mobile phones, but I haven't upgraded it because I don't need to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=6fn8dZ\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=6fn8dZ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=163\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As evidenced by a piece highlighted at <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/Slashdot\/slashdot?m=5710\">Slashdot<\/a>, many consumers are eschewing the all singing, all dancing mobile device in favour for something that does a simple job and does it well.   <\/p>\n<p>I can only concur with these findings.   <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the market for a mobile phone at the moment &#8211; my T68i, purchased almost as soon as they came out, is just beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Four years is a long time in technology, and particularly for mobile phones, but I haven&#8217;t upgraded it because I don&#8217;t need to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=6fn8dZ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=6fn8dZ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=163\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}