{"id":908,"date":"2016-08-04T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=908"},"modified":"2016-08-04T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T16:31:13","slug":"replacement-pixel-c-is-almost-ready-for-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/08\/04\/replacement-pixel-c-is-almost-ready-for-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement Pixel-C is almost ready for action&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The replacement for my original Pixel-C is now just about ready to use. Application are reloaded and updates applied.<\/p>\n<p>Kindle books are on it. There was some sort of hiccup when loading the books initially. A handful came up with a &#8216;!&#8217; on them and would not load or reload. I found that the only thing that helped was going to the &#8216;carousel&#8217; and tapping to load the affected books from there. Once I did that they seemed to work properly. As this is a WiFi only tablet, I need to have everything I&#8217;m likely to want pre-loaded before I leave home.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been quite happy with the Pixel-C aside from the screen failure that caused this replacement. I do miss the stylus support that my Samsung tablet has, but that doesn&#8217;t get used all that often so I can just grab the other tablet at need. The Pixel-C is light, fast and at 64 GB of storage is big enough to meet most of my needs.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope that the current lull in android tablet interest doesn&#8217;t kill off (or severely damage) the eco-system. I find these tablets with long battery life, decent processing power and nice screens to be a very good fit for my mobile needs.<\/p>\n<p>I am starting to look at surface tablets for the next hop on the tablet front. They seem to be the only bright spot (admittedly a windows bright spot) out there for a decent tablet with a stylus and all the trimmings. At the moment I&#8217;m not travelling about much and so the Pixel-C and Galaxy Pro 12 are it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The replacement for my original Pixel-C is now just about ready to use. Application are reloaded and updates applied. Kindle books are on it. There was some sort of hiccup when loading the books initially. A handful came up with a &#8216;!&#8217; on them and would not load or reload. I found that the only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/08\/04\/replacement-pixel-c-is-almost-ready-for-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replacement Pixel-C is almost ready for action&#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":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-blog","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-eE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}