Verizon drops off the map in may spots in Southwestern Minnesota. Sue, Cottonwood
-----Original Message----- From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:mou-...@lists.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis and Barbara Martin Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 9:46 PM To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [mou-net] Fw: [mou-net] phone + birding q I hope people respond publicly to this question. Anne asks questions that we all are also interested in. The only thing we know is that Verizon is the way to go for us because we can use the weather information just about everywhere in the state. If is is raining where we are at, we look at the radar to see if we can move a little ways and get out of the rain and continue birding. This 3G ability works nearly everywhere in the state on our Blackberry, which is 4-5 years old and not the one sold in the stores today. I suspect the newer ones would load the weather maps faster and possibly would be easier to use, although ours works fine and has saved us many days of wet birding. We also get MOUnet on our phone and thus keep up with email while we are out of town. This ability has gotten us 2 state birds and many county birds and year birds in the past 4 years. These were birds that we read about and we were not far away from where they were and we had not gotten a phone call about them. We have no apps on our phone otherwise although I also suspect that we are missing out on something that we could do for little money. We are considering upgrading to a newer Blackberry since we could do so for not much money. Our only complaint is that Verizon is, we think, a little expensive on a monthly basis when we include the email ability and since we have 2 phones in our house. Dennis and Barbara Martin Shorewood, MN dbmar...@skypoint.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
