
What features do you use on a smart phone....
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Posted 11 May 2011 - 06:27 PM
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Posted 11 May 2011 - 08:35 PM
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Posted 12 May 2011 - 08:22 AM
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Posted 16 May 2011 - 07:43 AM
Verizon is horrible where I'm at for reception so at first I thought about going with Sprint, according to an employee at the AT&T store that used to work for Sprint, Verizon and Sprint use the same towers so going with Sprint won't gain me much. Supposedly before the super bowl in Indy, AT&T will have the entire region from South Bend to Indy upgraded to 4G.
I was looking at the HTC Inspire as I have a real beef with Apple about how proprietary they are with all their 'stuff', also won't own a Dell anymore for pretty much the same reasons. I'd prolly spring for an Otter Box for it as well.
Edited by mlappin, 16 May 2011 - 07:45 AM.
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Posted 16 May 2011 - 09:43 AM
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Posted 24 May 2011 - 02:43 PM
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Posted 24 May 2012 - 08:57 PM

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 12:21 AM
Have a Motorola Atrix 4G now, absolutely love it, check commodity prices, weather, etc. while in the field. Can google phone numbers from the field as well if I need to contact somebody not in my contacts list. Also great for when the Autosteer is engaged when planting a 3/4 mile long field to try to get three stars on all levels of Angrybirds
I have the exact same set up Marty and I get 4G internet about every where I farm. I can surf the net while the tractor runs on autosteer.
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Posted 16 August 2012 - 05:54 PM
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 09:07 PM
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 12:35 PM
Last week we were in a hay field and were trying to find the owner of some bordering property. he had bought the field and had told us to cut it to keep clean.
We knew his last name and community, did an internet search, found a relative, got his number. No answer, looked the address up, found a neighbor, neighbor knew his mother, called mother and got his cell number. No answer, left voice mail and text.
He was on vacation in Cades Cove and did not have service.
All the time we were doing our detective work i remember thinking how cool it was that Dick Tracy had a watch/walkie-talkie.
I keep check on the weather, take pictures of cow/calf births for the record. I snap a picture when the bull is following a cow, know when she was bred.
Rather than text my wife where I am or doing, I snap a picture and text it. She can usually tell which hay field by the lay of the land.
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Posted 23 August 2012 - 09:22 PM
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Posted 13 November 2012 - 01:04 PM
Randy
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Posted 11 December 2012 - 07:13 PM
I dropped my brand new iphone under the (running) irrigator the other night. After hrs of searching by torchlight I gave up and resigned to the thought a horse may get a new iphone for xmas in his dinner, as I had to mow the next morning! Did one final search at daylight, and found it!! It was very wet, sat it in the sun for a few hrs while I mowed, and it made a full recoveryAnybody have a opinion on how durable the smart phones are?

I use it for almost everything, I love it! My favourites are the Messick's NH parts lookup my local parts interpreter loves when I walk in with all the part no's), NH weather app, internet to check the radar, a unit conversion app, spraying rate app, and the compass and calculator, oh, and only recently discovered the torch app which is real handy! Also use the camera heaps, and the notes for recording things that my head can't retain, and for recording rainfall and planting / haying records. Only thing missing is the HayTalk app

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Posted 22 December 2012 - 12:51 AM
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Posted 30 December 2012 - 10:47 AM
I have the Samsung Galaxy & getting ready to get the new Galaxy. It's been my best phone so far but the larger screen is what I like. I mainly use the weather radar, always using the internet & love Pandora radio. Don't know how I could survive without adding music to whatever I'm doing.
Randy
I had the HTC Inspire for a bit, beautiful big screen on it but as a phone it was horrible. Went with this Motorola for call quality and smaller size. I haven't busted the phone yet but have gone thru two Otter Boxes already. I'm afraid a bigger phone would just get snagged on something even more which is what keeps breaking the belt clips on the Otter Box.
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 07:18 PM
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 08:17 PM
As a High School Ag teacher and part time farm hand on the family farm, I use my smartphone for a number of things. Biggest help to me is a calendar app called Remember the Milk. I can set tasks with repeating due dates for years. When things are crazy and I've got too much to do, the phone remembers it's time to medicate the bee hives, order seasonal supplies, or send off this or that paperwork.
Evernote is my new little notebook. Photos of projects that I see, new toys I want, parts/model numbers off of equipment, websites, wishlists, or anything else I see and want to be able to find later on.
We use them in most of my Ag Classes. Kids now know more about them than I could ever want to know. If I tell them what I want to do, they can come up with "an app for that."
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 11:58 PM
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 09:27 AM
Anybody have a opinion on how durable the smart phones are? I'm rough on phones, even broke the screen on a flip phone while it was in my pocket. I've never owned a touch screen smart phone before but have used other peoples on occasion.
Verizon is horrible where I'm at for reception so at first I thought about going with Sprint, according to an employee at the AT&T store that used to work for Sprint, Verizon and Sprint use the same towers so going with Sprint won't gain me much. Supposedly before the super bowl in Indy, AT&T will have the entire region from South Bend to Indy upgraded to 4G.
I was looking at the HTC Inspire as I have a real beef with Apple about how proprietary they are with all their 'stuff', also won't own a Dell anymore for pretty much the same reasons. I'd prolly spring for an Otter Box for it as well.
Mike I have had Otter Box for about a year and wouldn't own a phone without it. Its a natural for mechanical/farming/construction work.
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