{"id":6763,"date":"2015-02-27T18:45:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:43:07","slug":"new-iphone-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6763","title":{"rendered":"New iPhone Accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently did a month-long survey that paid $200. Much to my annoyance, however, was that when I went to pickup my payment from the survey company in early February I was given a $200 VISA prepaid card with an expiration date of March 2015. WTF? But I decided that instead of trying to find something to quickly blow $200 on, I&#8217;d be smart, so I went to Amazon.com and used the card to buy a $200 gift card that I sent to myself. We buy stuff from Amazon here and there (and more often now that we have a Prime membership) so it made sense since it never expires.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday I finally got around to researching some iPhone accessories on Amazon so I could use my credit.  I hadn&#8217;t been in a hurry to pick anything out since battery life hasn&#8217;t been an issue with the phone but it&#8217;s nice to have some backup power and an extra cable just in case.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/16035272904\" title=\"RND Lightning Cable &amp; Anker Portable Battery by Nicole, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8633\/16035272904_eb038ae0eb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"RND Lightning Cable &amp; Anker Portable Battery\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The battery came with a mini usb cord and a carrying pouch.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/16470202040\" title=\"Anker Portable Battery by Nicole, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8587\/16470202040_3dd2d07148.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Anker Portable Battery\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The lightning cable is even thicker &#038; sturdier than the one that came with my phone. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/16040737544\" title=\"RND 6&#x27; Lightning Cable by Nicole, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8563\/16040737544_ce4a7fda93.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"RND 6&#x27; Lightning Cable\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Each cost me $15 (I got the blue battery since all the other colors were $20) which was cheaper than other options I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently did a month-long survey that paid $200. Much to my annoyance, however, was that when I went to pickup my payment from the survey company in early February I was given a $200 VISA prepaid card with an expiration date of March 2015. WTF? But I decided that instead of trying to find something to quickly blow $200 on, I&#8217;d be smart, so I went to Amazon.com and used the card to buy a $200 gift card that I sent to myself. We buy stuff from Amazon here and there (and more often now that we have a Prime membership) so it made sense since it never expires. Tuesday I finally got around to researching some iPhone accessories on Amazon so I could use my credit. I hadn&#8217;t been in a hurry to pick anything out since battery life hasn&#8217;t been an issue with the phone but it&#8217;s <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6763\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2,36,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-photos","category-product-reviews","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763"}],"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=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6768,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions\/6768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}