The first thing that I look at when buying a mobile is how useful it’ll be on the hill. That makes being water resistant a given and that usually means that the actual phone spec being well below par. Well for once, it seems that not only can I have waterproof but also top specs to […]
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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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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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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’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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1 – the obvious one. If, and ONLY IF, you are in an emergency situation you can phone mountain rescue. An emergency does not include running out of jelly babies, or that the cafe on Snowdon’s closed. Phone if someone’s in danger. Often, people ring up and they’d either be ok walking off on their own
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