{"id":3099,"date":"2011-08-31T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2011-08-30T20:47:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T03:47:10","slug":"my-latest-book-droid-x2-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"My Latest Book: <em>Droid X2 For Dummies<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/help\/phone\/cover.droidx2.png\" alt=\"Droid X2 For Dummies\" \/><br \/>\nPresenting my latest book, <em>Droid X2 For Dummies<\/em>. It&#8217;s an update to my popular <em>Droid X For Dummies<\/em>, which covers the new Droid X2 but also covers the Gingerbread operating system update to the original Droid X.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSorry about missing Monday&#8217;s blog post. Time-Warner, my cable provider, suffered a massive outage this past Sunday, and into parts of Monday. They still don&#8217;t know what caused it.<\/p>\n<p>The outage was weird: The cable modem was on and working, but the Time Warner DNS servers were down. Nothing was coming in or out. An article in today&#8217;s paper mentioned the outage and that T-W still has no clue what caused it.<\/p>\n<p>And that just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy paying them what I pay them each month.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the book.<\/p>\n<p>The Droid X2 is a heckuva improvement over the original Droid X. At first look, it&#8217;s the Droid X&#8217;s twin. The only thing missing is the Camera button, which I never use anyway. (The touchscreen shutter button seems to respond faster on the original Droid X.)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s lovely about the Droid X2 is its screen and its speed. It&#8217;s really peppy. So the gizmo is effectively a hardware update to the original machine, kind of like the IBM PC AT was an update to the original IBM PC and the IBM PC-XT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Random Quiz.<\/strong> Anyone out there old enough to remember the basic difference between the original IBM PC and the IBM PC-XT? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>My job now is to pour through the Droid X2 book and ensure that things are still relatively up-to-date. Various software updates and such render some of my information obsolete, which is the downside of writing about such leading edge technology.<\/p>\n<p>Any changes, updates, or errata can be found on my support page for the Droid X2, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/help\/phone\/droidx2-errata\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting my latest book, Droid X2 For Dummies. It&#8217;s an update to my popular Droid X For Dummies, which covers the new Droid X2 but also covers the Gingerbread operating system update to the original Droid X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}