{"id":255,"date":"2011-06-27T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/27\/bought-an-android-tablet\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:03:21","slug":"bought-an-android-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/27\/bought-an-android-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought an Android Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought an Acer Iconia A500 Tablet from Best Buy. I had a gift card from my birthday that brought the regular price down from $449 to $399. The Xoom was too much at $599 and the Samsung was $499 but had no USB ports. All run Googles Android 3, referred to as Honeycomb. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll post my findings as I compare this with my Apple iPad 2.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the Acer so I could learn the Andoid operating system. It\u2019s quite different from Apples iOS on the iPad. And clients are buying smartphones with Android, so I have to stay current.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought an Acer Iconia A500 Tablet from Best Buy. I had a gift card from my birthday that brought the regular price down from $449 to $399. The Xoom was too much at $599 and the Samsung was $499 but had no USB ports. All run Googles Android &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-going-paperless","category-slates-for-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-47","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}