Rob, Did you have a generator to keep those ipads, iphones charged up or
were you able to make do?
On 9/26/2011 5:38 PM, Rob Alexander wrote:
Okay, this isn't really about what phone to buy, and I could have done
the same thing on any smartphone or PDA, so if Steve will bear this
one indulgence, I'll answer Helen's question. (It is her rule, after
all.). :-)
Obviously the phone part wasn't working in the Amazon. We would be out
all day hiking or canoeing in the jungle and the phone was a useful
way to take notes of the species we saw, and of what they were doing.
I had ebooks about the place we were visiting, and it was nice to be
able to look up information about what we were seeing on the spot. I
also used the phone every night to read fiction before going to bed. A
phone is much lighter than a pile of books and the backlight was nice
for reading at night where there is no electricity.
The iPad really shone as a platform for reviewing the photographs I
took (http://wildearth.smugmug.com/ then go to the Americas section).
Again, this is nothing that another brand of tablet couldn't also do.
We'd all sit around after dinner and folks would squint over their
photos on the 2" screens on the backs of their cameras, and I would
drop mine into the iPad, where I could view them on a bright 10"
screen and even crop and edit them. We also loaded other people's
photos so they could see them at a decent size. People enjoyed passing
the iPad around while we talked and drank beer, seeing the photos we'd
taken of the things we had all seen that day. When we got back to
Iquitos (with Internet access), I was then able to upload a set of
photos to Facebook for my friends to see, even while we still had a
week in the Andes left on our trip.
I know it sounds odd to take high tech stuff to the wilderness, but it
can really be as useful there as in everyday life, just for different
reasons. I have colleagues who go out for much longer than I do, who
use solar chargers to keep their tech running for a couple of months
at a time.
Rob
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 26, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Helen Huntley <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What I really want to know is what Rob was doing traipsing around the
Amazon with his iPhone.
I have to admit that I enjoyed reading this passionate missive even
though I still have a dumb phone that I frequently forget to turn on.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Steve McKibben
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
A lot of great and useful info (and some that is less so on both
accounts) has been posted in this thread.
It originated because Shane needed to find out how to send the
articles that he always does (thank you Shane!) to GatorNews.
Shane's phone is now fixed, and everyone that has taken the time
to read the posts has an idea about the relative
strengths/weaknesses of the various phones/platforms, and who
among GatorTalk posters is loyal to which one.
Since it's not really a Gator related discussion, I'd like to
"Helen Rule" it. For those not familiar with that term, it simply
means that this dead horse need not be beaten anymore, at least
not on this list.
You could take it to Too Hot I suppose, although the discussion
hasn't been that incendiary, at least not yet.
Maybe we should start a "Too Boring for GatorTalk" list...
:)
Steve
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