{"id":3734,"date":"2013-10-16T15:50:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2013-10-16T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:50:55","slug":"phone-technology-getting-rather-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"Phone technology getting rather fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’m about to make an admission that might startle some members of my family and even a few friends.<\/p>\n

It concerns some telephone technology to which my wife and I were recently introduced. It’s that technology that enables one to receive and make phone calls while driving a motor vehicle, and without having to fumble with a telephone.<\/p>\n

My admission is that I’ve used it and have found that it’s easy and actually kind of fun.<\/p>\n

We purchased a hybrid car, a Toyota Prius, recently. It has a lot of bells and whistles. It’s a pretty high-tech car. One of the bells — or maybe it’s a whistle — is this program that enables one to connect a cell phone with the car. You call my cell phone and the car radio speaker starts bleating a sound that tells me a call is coming in. I press a button on the steering wheel and start talking to whomever is calling.<\/p>\n

I know this is old news to many of you. It’s new to my wife and me. <\/p>\n

I’ve made a couple of calls from<\/em> the car to people I’ve put on “speed dial” on the radio. I hit another button on the steering wheel, hit the speed dial button and it calls the number automatically.<\/p>\n

Yes, this too is old news to those who’ve known about this technology all along.<\/p>\n

But it is rather cool.<\/p>\n

So I’m able to use the phone in the car while not getting busted by Amarillo police officers for talking and driving at the same time.<\/p>\n

I’m really not afraid of technology. It’s all just something that requires some adjustment. I’m finding, though, that I am a fairly adaptable creature.<\/p>\n

Texting<\/em>, though, is an entirely different matter.<\/p>\n\n

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I’m about to make an admission that might startle some members of my family and even a few friends. It concerns some telephone technology to which my wife and I were recently introduced. It’s that technology that enables one to receive and make phone calls while driving a motor vehicle, and without having to fumble … Continue reading Phone technology getting rather fun<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[898],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}