[pct-l] Introductions and IPhone question

[RJ Lewis]

I personally have a Blackberry (8330 Curve) and absolutely love it. 
Iphone, Blackberry, they all work great with somewhat better reception 
than a standard cell phone in sketchy areas. Too, you can often send a 
text message in places where you cannot reach someone by voice, so this 
can be another option to send out messages.
  I live in North Dakota, where cell service is still non existent or 
very sketchy in many places. My husband works in areas where this is 
also true, so we often could only text back and forth this summer while 
he was on the road during the week, but we managed to keep in touch, 
even in areas considered NPZ's (no phone zones).
  Carry an extra data card and perhaps an extra battery you can recharge 
in town for these lil buggers- they aren't nice to your batteries, and 
your recharging equipment in your bounce bucket/box. Service varies 
according to your carrier- none are going to have service at every place 
along the route- this is high mountain country and quite remote in most 
places.
  I haven't found the keyboard on mine difficult to use at all with a 
bit of practice. It sure beats trying to use an Ipod!! I myself would 
get quite annoyed trying to use an Ipod to journal.

Just my 2 cents.
Soul Sista



Laura Fox wrote:
> Hi!  I used an iPhone to journal on my 2008 thru-hike, and I thought it was
> great.  I am not a huge journaler though, so I did not write very long
> entries.  It is relatively easy to type on an iPhone with your thumbs, and
> it gets easier over time, but if I wanted to write long entries I think it
> would have gotten annoying.  I wrote a short entry almost every night using
> the notepad function, and then when I had service, usually in town, I would
> email them to my postholer journal (it has an email posting function).  My
> journal is at postholer.com/flora.aux if you want to see how I did -- the
> vast majority of the during-hike entries were iPhone typed ... I think it
> made my writing a little stunted, but I wasn't trying for anything too
> poetic anyway, just a record of my hike.  I don't remember much about AT&T
> coverage though because I didn't use my phone for talking while out on the
> trail, and usually just attempted to email-post my entries when in town.
> Once in awhile though I would turn on my phone to journal while in my
> sleeping bag out on the trail somewhere and notice I had service.
>
> Laura/Truant
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:00:07 -0500
> From: "Erik Turnberg" <erik.turnberg at gmail.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] Introductions and IPhone question
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> A big hello to everyone one the list.  I'm Granite and my partner is
> Terrapin Flyer.  We met on the AT while thru hiking in 07 and we're
> planning a PCT hike this spring.  Right now we're living in
> Northampton, MA (so if there are any PCT alum in the area that would
> be willing to talk trail we'd love to meet you sometime).
>
> Anyways, on to the question.  We both like journalling.  I used a
> moleskin on the AT and eventually got sick of transcribing it onto
> trailjournals, so my trail journal sort of died after VA.  Terrapin
> used a pocket mail, which is great but a little large and bulky.
>
> We're probably going to bring the pocket mail for both of us on this
> hike, but we recently got a chance to play with a friend's iphone and
> were thinking that it might make a great, more functional replacement
> for the pocketmail.  Does anyone have any experience with using the
> iphone out on the trail for journaling?  Also, does anyone know how
> ATT's coverage is in the trail towns along the way and whether there
> are any wifi spots in any of the towns?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Granite
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