{"id":142,"date":"2007-12-03T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T15:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/2007\/12\/03\/an-in-car-gps-or-an-ebook-reader\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T15:29:36","slug":"an-in-car-gps-or-an-ebook-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"An in-car GPS or an eBook reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the answer to the question: When is a phone not a phone?<\/p>\n<p>Items like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dash.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dash<\/a>, an in car GPS based on the OpenMoko Project, and Amazon&#8217;s Kindle, the much maligned ebook reader, both use cellular phone technology in decidedly non-phone ways.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/kindle_dash_phone.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimately, in an open telecommunications world, we&#8217;ll use whatever means we can to connect to the network, finding the best combination of features and price to deliver services that could never have been considered in a world where a phone was just a phone.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the answer to the question: When is a phone not a phone? Items like the Dash, an in car GPS based on the OpenMoko Project, and Amazon&#8217;s Kindle, the much maligned ebook reader, both use cellular phone technology in decidedly non-phone ways. Ultimately, in an open telecommunications world, we&#8217;ll use whatever means we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orphan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}