{"id":56,"date":"2007-06-30T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T15:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2007-06-30T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T15:02:01","slug":"should-i-get-an-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Should I get an iPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the day after the big iPhone launch, and I&#8217;m still debating about whether I should get one.  I thought that perhaps Apple would sell all of their available units the first night, but according to Apple&#8217;s convenient <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/iphone\/\">iPhone supply checker<\/a>, there are still units available at the Apple stores near me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/iphonebox.jpg\" \/>I&#8217;ve been carefully reading all I can about initial impressions of the iPhone, and so far, most of what I&#8217;ve read has been very positive.  <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/06\/iphone_first_impressions\">Daring Fireball&#8217;s review<\/a> calls the iPhone &#8220;95% amazing and 5% maddening.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinksecret.com\">Think Secret <\/a>has two very nice galleries of high resolution photos of the iPhone user interface and a disassembled iPhone.  And the experts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifixit.com\">ifixit.com<\/a>  have a <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.ifixit.com\/\">detailed dissection of the iPhone<\/a> that provides many interesting details.<\/p>\n<p>So will I buy one?  I&#8217;m very tempted, but I&#8217;m trying to hold off just a bit longer.  While I usually am an early adopter of new technology, I would like to avoid paying an early cancellation fee to Verizon for switching to AT&#038;T.  My hope is that the next version of the iPhone will be released around the time I reach the end of my current Verizon contract.  I just hope I can wait that long!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I can dream of winning an iPhone in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appletell.com\/apple\/comment\/appletell-giveaway-were-giving-away-an-iphone-already\/\">Appletell&#8217;s contest<\/a>.  Now that&#8217;s one way to drive traffic to a blog!  If you decide to enter, tell them drthompsen.com sent you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the day after the big iPhone launch, and I&#8217;m still debating about whether I should get one. I thought that perhaps Apple would sell all of their available units the first night, but according to Apple&#8217;s convenient iPhone supply checker, there are still units available at the Apple stores near me. I&#8217;ve been carefully &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=56\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Should I get an iPhone?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}