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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Sat here, realising that there aren’t going to be any election results tonight and drinking a pretty vile decaff, I finally cracked and pre-ordered one of these… It’s not just a tablet, it’s a netbook with a detachable screen, close to infinite battery life, isn’t tied into proprietry formats and actuall y plays flash videos.
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We’ve all been there. You need to make a phone call after your wild camp, possibly to sort out your lift or to let someone know you’re late and not to ring mountain rescue and it’s flat. You know you shouldn’t be using the battery to watch another episode of Dr Who on iPlayer before
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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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After I’d moaned about my phone not being waterproof in a previous post (might as well complain that it always bloody rains on my walking days for all the good it does), i bought this straight off ebay. Well, i had some cash in Paypal so it seemed the sensible thing to do – almost
What is it? SPOT is a personal beacon that transmits SOS messages, or “I’m safe” messages so you can notify friends and family that you’re safe at the end of a walk (especially relevant in remote areas without mobile signals). First Impressions. It’s very much like a little orange GPS without a screen. In the same way
We’ve had the old arguments of mobile phones and hills, but here’s a new one for you. Netbooks on the mountain? For those of you who’ve been sleeping in Millican’s cave for the last twelve months, a Netbook is basically a small laptop (7-10inch screen) with decent battery life and optimised for browsing ‘tinternet on
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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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