{"id":336,"date":"2005-01-25T21:24:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T21:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2005-01-25T21:24:51","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T21:24:51","slug":"the-price-of-carelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"The price of carelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d always known mobile phones were expensive to buy sim-free (i.e: without a contract) as the contract subsidises the handset cost. This has been brought home to me recently by the fact that someone in Malaysia is now using my Nokia 6820- because I lost it. I got the SIM stopped, so at least my account is safe, but the phone that cost me about 40 quid will cost a lot more to replace. The best possibility so far seems to be a Sony-Erricson T610, as I want bluetooth, small size, and tri-band (that way if I go to the US I can lose it there!). I don&#8217;t want a camera, but it seems you just can&#8217;t not have one if you want the other features. The best offer I can find for that is about 80 quid (for a new one), which, trust me, is a bargain. Some of the latest phones will cost you ?300-400 to replace. For a bloody <em>phone<\/em>. Meanwhile if anyone has a T610 in decent nick they don&#8217;t want, get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d always known mobile phones were expensive to buy sim-free (i.e: without a contract) as the contract subsidises the handset cost. This has been brought home to me recently by the fact that someone in Malaysia is now using my Nokia 6820- because I lost it. I got the SIM stopped, so at least my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The price of carelessness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}