{"id":317,"date":"2005-08-26T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T14:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2005-08-26T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T14:11:06","slug":"one_device_to_rule_them_all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/one_device_to_rule_them_all\/","title":{"rendered":"one device to rule them all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,68641,00.html?tw=rss.TOP\">profiles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampd.com\/indexFlash.html\">Amp&#8217;d Mobile<\/a>, a new  service launching this fall that will offer subscribers a wide array of &#8220;mobile entertainment&#8221; options on a specialized handheld device. Amp&#8217;d has marshalled a vast amount of venture capital to bring the cellphone to its full potential as a catch-all media device &#8211; video console, gaming handset, ebook reader, web browser, and, if your brain hasn&#8217;t been totally fricasseed by that point, still a good old-fashioned telephone.<br \/>\nAmp&#8217;d targets consumers in their mid-20s to mid-30s &#8211; the bracket that is the most gadget-crazed, the most entertainment-hungry, as well as the most mobile, or so the reasoning goes. At the very least, Amp&#8217;d might serve as a catalyst for Verizon, Sprint and the other big mobile service providers to move into this sweet spot of media convergence. It certainly seems that things are going that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired profiles Amp&#8217;d Mobile, a new service launching this fall that will offer subscribers a wide array of &#8220;mobile entertainment&#8221; options on a specialized handheld device. Amp&#8217;d has marshalled a vast amount of venture capital to bring the cellphone to its full potential as a catch-all media device &#8211; video console, gaming handset, ebook reader, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1849],"tags":[2693],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ideal-device","tag-mobile-wireless-ampd-cellphone-handheld-verizon-sprint-device-gadget-technology-mobileweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}