{"id":740864,"date":"2013-03-07T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=362772"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:10:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:10:56","slug":"learning-to-live-with-a-phablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740864","title":{"rendered":"Learning to live with a phablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-review-redux-362772\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/galaxy-note-hdtv-techblock.jpg?w=650&#038;h=500&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C500\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy Note II Review\" title=\"Samsung Galaxy Note HDTV\" \/><\/a><\/center>I was not shy when <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/02\/22\/samsung-galaxy-note-review-the-smartphone-that-samsunged-samsung\/\">I first reviewed<\/a> Samsung's (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS\">005930<\/a>) Galaxy Note \"phablet\" early last year. In a piece titled \"<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/02\/22\/samsung-galaxy-note-review-the-smartphone-that-samsunged-samsung\/\">The smartphone that 'Samsunged' Samsung<\/a>,\" I said the Note had taken things way too far and I called for the death of the smartphone-tablet hybrid category. It did not die. Later in 2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/24\/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-review\/\">I reviewed the Galaxy Note II<\/a> and even though it was a top performer, I still had no idea who would want to buy such a massive cell phone. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/26\/galaxy-note-ii-sales-2012-2\/\">Samsung sold 5 million of them in 60 days<\/a>. Apparently, it's time for me to get on board.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-review-redux-362772\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/kbD7-zwZXaI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was not shy when I first reviewed Samsung&#8217;s (005930) Galaxy Note &#8220;phablet&#8221; early last year. In a piece titled &#8220;The smartphone that &#8216;Samsunged&#8217; Samsung,&#8221; I said the Note had taken things way too far and I called for the death of the smartphone-tablet hybrid category. It did not die. Later in 2012, I reviewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36Jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}