{"id":469,"date":"2008-01-09T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T03:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:42:01","slug":"gear-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/469\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Gear Diary\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/geardiary.png\" alt=\"Gear Diary\" width=\"190\" height=\"234\"\/> <a href=\"http:\/\/the-gadgeteer.com\/\">The Gadgeteer<\/a> (<a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/the-gadgeteer.com\/mobile.html\">mobile<\/a>) was one of the first (since 1997) and is still my favorite hardware review site. Reviewers Julie Strietelmeier and Judie Hughes delivered entertaining, incredibly honest and thus very useful reviews of all sorts of small electronic devices especially PDAs, and later smartphones. I like to buy cool but outdated handheld tech on eBay and The Gadgeteer&#8217;s archives are my primary resource when researching purchases. Judie left The Gadgeteer a year ago to start her own site, <em>Gear Diary<\/em> (<a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geardiary.com\/\">geardiary.com<\/a>) which I just discovered has a mobile site built with Alex King&#8217;s WordPress plugin. Gear Diary&#8217;s style is similar to The Gadgeteer but seems to have a broader focus, covering home entertainment and personal robotics in addition to The Gadgeteer&#8217;s staple of smartphones, laptops and accessories.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geardiary.com\/\">Gear Diary<\/a>: (cHtml) Content: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/> Usability: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/index.php?id=98\">Tech News &#8211; Wap Review Mobile Site Directory <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gadgeteer (mobile) was one of the first (since 1997) and is still my favorite hardware review site. Reviewers Julie Strietelmeier and Judie Hughes delivered entertaining, incredibly honest and thus very useful reviews of all sorts of small electronic devices especially PDAs, and later smartphones. I like to buy cool but outdated handheld tech on eBay and The Gadgeteer&#8217;s archives are my primary resource when researching purchases. Judie left The Gadgeteer a year ago to start her own site, Gear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/469\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21892,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/21892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}