{"id":1268,"date":"2006-10-05T22:01:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T03:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2006-10-05T22:01:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T03:01:45","slug":"cell-phone-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Cell phone redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday night I stopped deluding myself and put my SIM card back into my old cell phone. I&#8217;m done with the bullshit I&#8217;ve been dealing with ever since we &#8220;upgraded&#8221; our phones. We never had any problems with T-Mobile&#8217;s service until then. Suddenly we were getting dropped calls and poor signal quality to the point where it sounded like the other person had been dropped down a well. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty pissed off about the whole thing, but I know there&#8217;s no point in calling T-Mobile because we&#8217;ve had the phones for two months now. When I switched back to my old phone, the reception improved instantly, so it&#8217;s probably not even their network that&#8217;s to blame anyway. What a waste of money, though! <\/p>\n<p>Both phones are made by Samsung, so I don&#8217;t know what the deal is. Maybe when they pack all these other &#8220;features&#8221; into the newer models, like a camera (which I never used by the way), they sacrifice other things, like actually being able to hold a conversation without having to keep calling back because the call disconnects and then endlessly repeating yourself because the signal goes in and out. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll teach me to upgrade, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday night I stopped deluding myself and put my SIM card back into my old cell phone. I&#8217;m done with the bullshit I&#8217;ve been dealing with ever since we &#8220;upgraded&#8221; our phones. We never had any problems with T-Mobile&#8217;s service until then. Suddenly we were getting dropped calls and poor signal quality to the point where it sounded like the other person had been dropped down a well. I&#8217;m pretty pissed off about the whole thing, but I know there&#8217;s no point in calling T-Mobile because we&#8217;ve had the phones for two months now. When I switched back to my old phone, the reception improved instantly, so it&#8217;s probably not even their network that&#8217;s to blame anyway. What a waste of money, though! Both phones are made by Samsung, so I don&#8217;t know what the deal is. Maybe when they pack all these other &#8220;features&#8221; into the newer models, like <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1268\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}