{"id":1234,"date":"2016-10-11T14:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2016-10-11T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T14:58:01","slug":"looks-like-the-note-7-is-done-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/10\/11\/looks-like-the-note-7-is-done-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks like the Note-7 is done for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a Samsung series note phone for a long time. I like the size and I rather like having a high quality stylus for non-text notes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sad to see that as of this morning, the Note-7 has been discontinued and the replacement phones recalled. Now I&#8217;ll be looking for an alternative . I&#8217;m guessing that the galaxy S7 edge and the new google pixel XL 128 GB may be reasonable possibilities.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I use my phone for many different things (and I really want to be able to side-load code that I write myself so an iOS device is a non-starter). At this point I suspect that I&#8217;m looking for the least loss of function rather than an equivalent replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Things I want in a phone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android, ideally 7.1 with relatively direct updates.<\/li>\n<li>Large screen. At least the size of the Note-7.<\/li>\n<li>USB-C support with on the go capability for external thumb drives and chip readers.<\/li>\n<li>Large internal storage or external micro-SD support. Prefer the chip cards as they let me grab and go with different subsets of things I might need. I&#8217;ve been living with the no chips Pixel-C tablet now though and it is workable.<\/li>\n<li>Finger print reader. I didn&#8217;t think this was all that important when I got my note 7 but now I find that it is so much faster than typing a pin every time that I consider it pretty important.<\/li>\n<li>High quality stylus (i.e. not one of the bubble tip finger surrogates that a re popular at checkout lines).<\/li>\n<li>Waterproof would be nice. I tend to use a decent case so this can be worked around with an otter box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far Verizon has been ok on the support front through this mess. Not perfect, but much better than I had expected them to be. At this point it looks as if the Google phone will be out on the 20th if I want to go that way. The S7 edge is an older phone that has been available for some time now. Neither has a stylus so that&#8217;s unfortunate. The Google phone has 128 GB of storage but no built in chip reader. If it supports an on the go reader then I may be ok with that.<\/p>\n<p>Going to try to get to the Verizon store sometime soon to see what they&#8217;re offering in detail and get this moving. It is a real pain to keep setting up my phone and then having to set it up again. It will be nice to get something that I can stick with for a good length of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a Samsung series note phone for a long time. I like the size and I rather like having a high quality stylus for non-text notes. I&#8217;m sad to see that as of this morning, the Note-7 has been discontinued and the replacement phones recalled. Now I&#8217;ll be looking for an alternative . I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/10\/11\/looks-like-the-note-7-is-done-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looks like the Note-7 is done for&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-jU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}