{"id":953,"date":"2012-06-15T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2014-02-05T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T02:27:33","slug":"techtrends-my-first-date-with-an-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/techtrends-my-first-date-with-an-android\/","title":{"rendered":"TechTrends:  My First Date With an Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/techtrends-my-first-date-with-an-android\/attachment\/verizonworkshop\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-954\" title=\"verizonworkshop\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/verizonworkshop.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m finally doing it &#8211; I&#8217;m going on a date with an Android phone, courtesy of Verizon wireless. \u00a0I was invited out to one of their free workshops to get the basics on all things Android. \u00a0Check out the video:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6bC4z7w2_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so the workshop itself was absolutely awesome, but here&#8217;s my initial opinion on Android. \u00a0For clarity, I was using a Motorola Droid Bionic throughout the class. \u00a0Most of my problems with Android phones stem from the user interface. \u00a0In my opinion, there&#8217;s just something clunky and inelegant about the UI. \u00a0Nothing seems as intuitive as it does on the iPhone. \u00a0We were on a 4G network, so downloads and web browsing were pretty fast. \u00a0I did like the fact that you can add widgets to the phone &#8211; that&#8217;s something that requires a jailbreak of the iPhone to do. \u00a0The camera was also a little better than my iPhone4 (8 megapixels vs. 5 megapixels, although the iPhone4S has 8 mp) and there was a zoom feature that was cool and was more robust than the iPhone. \u00a0The workshop even covered IRIS, which is the Android version of Siri.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t hate the Android completely, but it is highly unlikely that I&#8217;d make the switch from Apple. \u00a0However, I would definitely attend another Verizon workshop! \u00a0They have classes for different devices and different levels of expertise. \u00a0If you&#8217;re interested, you can get more information <a href=\"https:\/\/vzwworkshops.verizonwireless.com\/vzwworkshops\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; So I&#8217;m finally doing it &#8211; I&#8217;m going on a date with an Android phone, courtesy of Verizon wireless. \u00a0I was invited out to one of their free workshops to get the basics on all things Android. \u00a0Check out the video:<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/techtrends-my-first-date-with-an-android\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,224],"tags":[70,198,42,45,291,292,32,33,183,195,6,28,4,35,288,289,290],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-more-link","post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-life","category-techtrends","category-videos","tag-a-matter-of-life-and-tech","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-cell-phone","tag-classes","tag-droid-bionic","tag-gadgets","tag-high-tech","tag-motorola","tag-smartphone","tag-stephanie-humphrey","tag-tech-life-2","tag-technology","tag-tools","tag-verizon","tag-verizon-wireless","tag-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}