What great photos! What wonderful adventures you get to have. I'm glad you included a gator from Lake Alice. Helen On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Rob Alexander <[email protected]> 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]> 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]>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 >> >> >> ** >> >> -- >> GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >> 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >> 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >> 2008 National Football Champions | >> Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel >> (1996), >> Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us >> > > > > -- > Helen Huntley > (727) 823-3801 > www.helenhuntley.com > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > -- Helen Huntley (727) 823-3801 www.helenhuntley.com -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
