{"id":6873,"date":"2012-11-07T10:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T09:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T09:06:08","slug":"now-phil-has-left-nokia-whats-it-really-like-to-use-an-android-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/now-phil-has-left-nokia-whats-it-really-like-to-use-an-android-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Phil has left Nokia, what&#8217;s it really like to use an Android smartphone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Schwarzmann:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I purchased a Google Nexus so I can switch to Straight Talk and give my posterior a break from AT&amp;T\u2019s onslaught. Is this what the general public want in a phone??? I could Hulk Hogan the cheap plastic in half with my bare hands. I\u2019ve had easier time putting on condoms than inserting the Nexus\u2019 flimsy back cover&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And now for the software \u2013 Did Google outsource the design of each individual Android screen to a Korean child animator working in silos? There\u2019s zero consistency in the UI. It\u2019s full of buried menus and Windows 95-style icons. The whole thing feels like a dirty apartment, or worse, Symbian. Google and Samsung seriously need to take a page out of Nokia, Microsoft, and Apple\u2019s design playbook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will having a working notifications center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterfunner.com\/2012\/11\/my-first-week-without-a-nokia\/\">make up for those issues<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Schwarzmann: I purchased a Google Nexus so I can switch to Straight Talk and give my posterior a break from AT&amp;T\u2019s onslaught. Is this what the general public want in a phone??? I could Hulk Hogan the cheap plastic in half with my bare hands. I\u2019ve had easier time putting on condoms than inserting the Nexus\u2019 flimsy back cover&#8230; And now for the software \u2013 Did Google outsource the design of each individual Android screen to a Korean child animator working in silos? There\u2019s zero consistency in the UI. It\u2019s full of buried menus and Windows 95-style icons. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25,4,2245],"tags":[2217,3876,158,3083],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-windows-phone","tag-android","tag-change","tag-nokia","tag-switch","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1MR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}