{"id":980,"date":"2009-10-06T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2009-10-06T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:35:10","slug":"android-coming-to-verizon-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/android-coming-to-verizon-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Android coming to Verizon soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-981\" title=\"google-verizon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/google-verizon.jpg\" alt=\"google-verizon\" width=\"291\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/google-verizon.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/google-verizon-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/>I should have a section on my blog called &#8220;Patrick&#8217;s search for a new phone.&#8221;\u00a0 Before it was the Blackberry Storm but that turned out to be the biggest bust (good thing I didn&#8217;t get it).\u00a0 Then the Palm Pre came along, but I have to wait for it to come to Verizon.\u00a0 Then there was the Tour, but it turns out I was still on contract.\u00a0 Also, the keyboard just didn&#8217;t feel right.\u00a0 Of course there is the upcoming Blackberry Storm 2 which I&#8217;m hesitant about.\u00a0 Lately I&#8217;ve been enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/voice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google voice<\/a> a lot more.\u00a0 A friend came into my office the other day and told me something that convinced me that I should go all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/voice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google voice<\/a>&#8230; free text messaging.<\/p>\n<p>So today, Verizon and Google announce that they will be launching some Android phones on Verizon.\u00a0 Finally!\u00a0 Why Android?\u00a0 Android phones allow you to use Google voice automatically.\u00a0 If I do decide to go this way, everyone might be getting a text or email from me telling you my new number.\u00a0 Yes, Google is taking over the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/10\/06\/verizon-plans-to-support-google-voice-will-launch-two-game-cha\/\" target=\"_blank\">Link to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have a section on my blog called &#8220;Patrick&#8217;s search for a new phone.&#8221;\u00a0 Before it was the Blackberry Storm but that turned out to be the biggest bust (good thing I didn&#8217;t get it).\u00a0 Then the Palm Pre came along, but I have to wait for it to come to Verizon.\u00a0 Then there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}