You may have noticed that the OS Explorer maps have recently had a face lift on the covers, but maybe not that they represent what’s possibly one of the most significant event since they printed the first OS maps? While digital maps have been around for years now, they can prove to be expensive to […]
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Ok, we’ve drawn you in, and we’ll admit that technically it isn’t ‘free’ – it depends what you’ve got hanging about the house and what mapping apps (if any) you’ve already bought. The idea came to us when we forgot our regular GPS for logging a route, and realised we annoyingly had to use our
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While you should always carry a map and compass (and know how to use them!) a GPS device is still a useful bit of kit in the mountains. Our smartphones and tablets have come on leaps and bounds in the last few years and can be as useful as a proper GPS (close, but not
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Thanks to those clever guys at Osprey, there’s now an app that allows you take a photo of yourself and it’ll tell you what Osprey pack models and sizing are suitable. Osprey PackSizer™, the world’s first digital pack fitting tool has added the 2014 ‘Highly Commended’ award for Innovation of the year from The Great
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I’m always up for a bargain, and while the outdoor geek is strong in this one, so is the upbringing that a bargain isn’t to be ignored. The Note Android N8000 is a Star mobile, or a tablet if you’ve got small hands, that comes in at only £120 or so all in. Essentially, it’s modeled on the Samsung
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While we’ve had our hands on this nifty little tablet for a few months, with first impressions here, we decided to give it some time before finally reviewing it. The Google Nexus 7 is the internet giant’s first attempt at a tablet, with the idea that you get a tablet with none of the bloat
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Motorola recently released the Motorola Defy Mini, which is essentially a budget version of the Defy outdoors phone. The Defy range are mobiles that are sold as ‘life proof’, that is they offer some resistance to water, dust and general rough and tumble. The original Defy served me well, but I replaced the battery with
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If you want a cheap and cheerful cover for your Kindle or mini tablet, then you can’t go wrong with the Lupo Waterproof Bag. It’s not really suitable for using the kindle touch as trying to turn the page gives strange results, but will protect the device whilst in your pack from water and minor
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These new Google Nexus 7” Android tablet, if you’ve been lucky enough to pre-order, have been arriving at their doors over the last few days. I hadn’t expected mine, so when it did arrive then it was a pleasant surprise. Although it does appear that many haven’t received them on time due to an error
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With the cheapest GPS with proper OS mapping still in the region of £200, plus a significant whack on top of that if you want significant mapping coverage, we ponder if there’s an alternative with the glut of cheap 7” (why the imperial i ask!) Android tablets and cheap mapping apps (see here). With Viewranger
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While we certainly raved about the Motorola Defy, and dipped it in various beverages after consuming a goodly amount ourselves, it’s far from perfect. It’s water resistsant and depends on the ports being covered by flimsy rubber covers, which is easily forgotten when you drop it in someone’s pint. Yet it’s the best available so
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You may or may not be interested to see us put the Motorola Defy through it’s paces below. In three months use, the phone’s been severely abused in use and has survived. Packed hastily into a windproof pocket and drenched in an hour’s torrential rain and survived. It’s even survived a few impromptu dunks as
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WIMM Labs recently announced a multifunctional, wearable android device. Will this take over from your GPS watch and mp3 player soon? Following on from our review of android running apps, one of the issues we found was carrying the phone with you. This would be a much more elegant solution. It’s also water resistant, so along
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These are all the other apps we looked at for part 2 and decided to put in their own little post, out of the way.. Run Free – a very basic logger with a large and runner-friendly interface that changes the display between distance, pace and time on touch, but would be better with more
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The second Installment of the Free Android Running Apps.. (first one is here) Cardiotrainer – On opening you can start a schedule for a ‘week’ but not beyond that. Ideal if you’re doing a steady few runs every week and building a base, and so far the best scheduler (you can state the activity you
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While there’s always the mapping and GPS apps, we took a look at what other outdoorsy apps that could be of use. Here’s a few we unearthed, and for once, stuck to the ‘5 things’ in the title. iGeology – Simple but effective geology map. It displays a basic overlay on an OS map that
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With the recent acquisition of both a smartphone that works and a net book running Android, a whole new world of apps on Android is available. This isn’t necessarily a good thing unless you can separate the wheat from the chaff. Essentially, I’m looking for something that does exctly what a GPS does by giving me my current location
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I decided to see if there was anything useful that I could put on my android phone that came close to replacing my year old, yet already ancient looking Garmin Forerunner 305. I get useful information on my run, audio warnings and then I can load the results onto my PC and save the tracks
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The Asus eee Pad Transformer is sleek, bronzed and impressive to look at. It arrived at the start of the warm weather at the start of June and the metal finish was welcomingly cool to the touch. It feels like quality. There are no USB ports on the tablet itself, but there’s a mini hdmi out, audio
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I’ve been, for lack of a better word, loyal to both Nokia and Vodafone over nearly ten years. Actually, lazy would probably be a more fitting adjective in this case. The problems that my last Nokia phones have given me from flaky hardware (rarely lasting 12 months into 24 month contracts) to dodgy softwarare that
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