{"id":6823,"date":"2014-11-02T06:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2014-11-02T06:53:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:53:24","slug":"hurrah-for-fat-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6823","title":{"rendered":"Hurrah for Fat Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fattest Android phone I owned was the Droid Bionic &#8212; a dismal failure of a device sales wise (and my <em>Droid Bionic For Dummies<\/em> didn&#8217;t fare too well, either), but a lovely phone for its battery life. I even purchased an extended battery that made the phone fatter and last all the doo-dah day. It was delightful.<\/p>\n<p>The trend these days is for thin, stylish phones. Blame Apple. Their new devices are all touted by how delicately thin they are. &#8220;The new iPad 20 &#8212; so thin it has only one side!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sacrifice that manufacturers are making in favor of thin is battery life. Batteries need to be fat to be good. Plus, with a fat phone, you can stuff more goodies inside.<\/p>\n<p>Hail to thee, fat phone!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/we-need-more-fat-phones-with-killer-battery-life-1651717860?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&#038;utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&#038;utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","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=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6824,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}