{"id":1101,"date":"2007-12-05T10:18:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/12\/05\/lazyweb-phone-for-europe-vacation\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T10:18:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:18:24","slug":"lazyweb-phone-for-europe-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/12\/05\/lazyweb-phone-for-europe-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazyweb: Phone for Europe (Vacation)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of this month, Kim and will be in Europe (Spain mostly, flying through London for a short lay-over) for a vacation. I wanted to get some sort of (cheap) cellphone to use while we&#8217;re there.<\/p>\n<p>I use Verizon in the States, so I can&#8217;t just swap out a SIM card &#8211; I missed out on a getting a free\/review, unlocked WindowsCE at IT Forum due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/11\/28\/microsoft-teched-it-forum-2007-wrap-up-and-other-videos\/\">the video series<\/a> (boo-hoo, for me, right? ;&gt;).<\/p>\n<p>So I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for where to get a phone. Is there something better than just buying one at the London airport or around London?<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/SIM\" rel=\"tag\">SIM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/travel\" rel=\"tag\">travel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/cellphones\" rel=\"tag\">cellphones<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendations for cellphone for use in the EU?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-analyst-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}