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01/25/2010 at 7:56 pm #1729469
This is probably kinda philosophical here. We have a cell phone. Just a plain old cell phone. We have it for emergencies, and finding a cache is not an emergency in our books. (though sometimes peer pressure gets to us! 😉 ) When we’re outside, the dinging phone is an annoyance. We’re trying to get away from all that for a few hours.
So, with all this instantaneous 3G and 4G and Bluetooth and all that stuff that lets you get online anywhere…..what’s the appeal? I get that those with phone notification can find out about FTFs. We don’t even have that.
What’s the appeal of being online when you’re outside? I’m not trying to pit one camp against another, I’m just curious about this phenomenon.
01/25/2010 at 8:04 pm #1921003because I don’t live in the same state as any of my favorite teams (yeah i said it… no packers or badgers lol), I don’t have to decide if i should stay home and watch the game or go caching… but it’s nice to be able to check the scores of the games occasionally.
i don’t really use it on the phone for anything else.01/25/2010 at 8:07 pm #1921004I’m not sure, but don’t you need all this 3G/4G stuff to do paperless caching?
01/25/2010 at 9:11 pm #1921005Nope. We cache without paper. All that’s needed is something like a PDA or the fancy Oregon GPSr that all the cool kids have. We’re not cool, so we use our nuvi like a PDA.
01/25/2010 at 9:51 pm #1921006Da wife wanted a new cell phone and wanted a smartphone with all the bells and whistles, so I upgraded as well. I found it so useless that I took it back and downgraded to my no-camera, no-nothing phone that just makes calls. Even though we have her phone along when we cache as a family, we have never used it for any field activity. So put me in the low-tech luddite group.
On the Left Side of the Road...01/25/2010 at 9:51 pm #1921007@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Nope. We cache without paper. All that’s needed is something like a PDA or the fancy Oregon GPSr that all the cool kids have. We’re not cool, so we use our nuvi like a PDA.
I think your cool. 🙂
01/25/2010 at 9:59 pm #1921008@Averith wrote:
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Nope. We cache without paper. All that’s needed is something like a PDA or the fancy Oregon GPSr that all the cool kids have. We’re not cool, so we use our nuvi like a PDA.
I think your cool. 🙂
Sounds like a bribe for a vote.
01/25/2010 at 10:08 pm #1921009@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
@Averith wrote:
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Nope. We cache without paper. All that’s needed is something like a PDA or the fancy Oregon GPSr that all the cool kids have. We’re not cool, so we use our nuvi like a PDA.
I think your cool. 🙂
Sounds like a bribe for a vote.
I am so offended!! I use brownies for that. 🙂
01/25/2010 at 10:31 pm #1921010Brownies are good. They’re chocolate, aren’t they? 😉
01/25/2010 at 10:37 pm #1921011@Averith wrote:
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
@Averith wrote:
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Nope. We cache without paper. All that’s needed is something like a PDA or the fancy Oregon GPSr that all the cool kids have. We’re not cool, so we use our nuvi like a PDA.
I think your cool. 🙂
Sounds like a bribe for a vote.
I am so offended!! I use brownies for that. 🙂
I love brownies, need a vote?
01/25/2010 at 10:45 pm #1921012Co cola cholate cake brownies too…….oooh I’m a thread stealer….bad Rob!! 🙂
01/26/2010 at 5:12 am #1921013Not all Brownies are chocolate. Some are white girls in brown uniforms.
(Sorry, that was really bad, but I couldn’t help myself. I was having a Will Ferrell moment.)
01/26/2010 at 5:30 am #1921014@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Nope. We cache without paper. All that’s needed is something like a PDA or the fancy Oregon GPSr that all the cool kids have. We’re not cool, so we use our nuvi like a PDA.
I bought an I-pod for paperless caching. Someday I might put songs on it too.
01/26/2010 at 1:16 pm #1921015I have an ipod with bird calls on it. I, too, might put songs on it one day!
01/26/2010 at 2:10 pm #1921016I have a “Crackberry” Tour. I don’t know how many G it has, if there is a “app” or map for it, or anything else the cell phone companies tell me is important. What I do know is other than being a phone, it has occasionally afforded me the opportunity to…
– Look up hints/attributes/logs to caches that are giving me fits at GZ
– Log my finds on the spot so I don’t have to do them in bulk later (or in the case of a FTF, out of courtesy)
– Find other nearby spontaneous caches I may not have loaded into my GPS because I hadn’t planned on them
– Search for a listing for a cache I had loaded into my GPS from a previous upload but didn’t have any info along at the time
– Take pictures and upload or email them in one step
– …and many other little things.Do you need it? Not at all. If you have it, it can be useful. I can honestly say though, if I didn’t have mine through work, I wouldn’t own one and would survive without it.
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