by Ed » Sat Feb 23, 2019 10:37 am
I'm with Perry. Well, I was until last week, when I bought my first smartphone. I hate it for making and receiving calls, it is so much clumsier than my old clamshell. I am now trying to learn the non-phone features. Can't say it is going well, the behavior of the device does not seem to follow the instructions I have, no matter the source. Actually, it is downright humiliating, since I have moderate to advanced technical skills, and children and grannies who find arithmetic challenging wield these things like pros. When I am a little more familiar with it, I will install Avenza and Gaia, and try out the GPS-map functions walking around the neighborhood.
One reason I decided to come out of the Dark Ages and buy a smartphone was my 911 call from the Skyline Trail in December 2017, when another hiker collapsed. Without thinking, I used my clamshell phone. I suspect that if I had borrowed his smartphone, the location fix would have been quicker and more accurate.