Cycle touring: time to ditch the smart phone?

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Re: Cycle touring: time to ditch the smart phone?

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mattheus wrote: 4 Dec 2021, 6:23pm Also Android 9, but on a Moto G6.
Settings, battery, usage (since last charge).
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Re: Cycle touring: time to ditch the smart phone?

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The last few European tours we've done, having a smartphone has been quite useful:
  • I plan most of the routes ahead of time using RideWithGPS, but if for some reason we decide to vary that, I can use Locus on the phone to plot a new route, and then either cross-load it to the GPS or use Locus to provide the navigation. I think the last tour on which I used paper maps was about 15 years back.
  • When in a strange city, the the phone is useful for finding accomodation/restaurants/museums/galleries etc.
  • I also carry a small fold-up Bluetooth keyboard that packs down to about 6"x3"x0.5", and use that with the phone if I want to write something up or need to answer emails. My wife also uses the keyboard with her phone as she usually keeps a crazyguyonabike journal of our trips that she writes up each evening.
I also find myself using the phone as a camera much more frequently than the actual camera that I also carry. On our last tour in 2018, on looking back at the photos I find that except for photographing the races at the world championships in Innsbruck, where I needed the speed and zoom range of the dedicated camera, virtually all of the rest of the photos were taken with the phone.
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Re: Cycle touring: time to ditch the smart phone?

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Not using a smartphone on tour is harmless to others.

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Re: Cycle touring: time to ditch the smart phone?

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mattheus wrote: 4 Dec 2021, 5:22pm Goes to Settings/Apps ...
I've got 71 apps! How do I tell which ones are drinking my juice??
Hi Matt, are you a droid?
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Re: Cycle touring: time to ditch the smart phone?

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Tiggertoo wrote: 6 Dec 2021, 6:31pm
mattheus wrote: 4 Dec 2021, 5:22pm Goes to Settings/Apps ...
I've got 71 apps! How do I tell which ones are drinking my juice??
Hi Matt, are you a droid?
Difficult to say ...
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