{"id":148,"date":"2007-04-04T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T21:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2007-04-04T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T21:59:19","slug":"t-mobile-ameos-kill-tube-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Ameos kill tube tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep my PDA in my inside jacket pocket &#8211; so I can get to it quickly. For the same reason, I keep other things there that I need to grab in a hurry. <\/p>\n<p>Like London Underground Travelcards.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they don&#8217;t work so well after sitting next to to T-Mobile Ameo PDAs. Or, to be more precise, the ridiculously strong magnet that is in the base of the Ameo to hold the screen to the keyboard. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seehtc.com\/gallery360.html\" target=\"_blank\">this animation<\/a> if you are curious about how this works).<\/p>\n<p>I ended up having to ask the nice Underground staff to let me through manually at every station I went through for the rest of the day, because my ticket was trashed. <\/p>\n<p>Whoops.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly worryingly, I had my credit card in there, too. I&#8217;m guessing that is probably trashed now as well. (So far, all the shops I&#8217;ve used it in since have used the chip rather than the magnetic strip, so I don&#8217;t know for sure.)<\/p>\n<p>Lesson of the day &#8211; keep my PDA away from magnetic strips&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep my PDA in my inside jacket pocket &#8211; so I can get to it quickly. For the same reason, I keep other things there that I need to grab in a hurry. Like London Underground Travelcards. Apparently they don&#8217;t work so well after sitting next to to T-Mobile Ameo PDAs. Or, to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}