Tikiboy

My wife has a new Samsung Galaxy S5. I have an almost 2 year old Droid Razr Maxx. c:geo can have both of us right on top of the cache coordinates (according to the app), yet we can be standing 20-30 meters apart. Or even if we are standing still, we can be moving 10m here, 15m over there, 20m back to where we were a minute ago. Finally, on mine at least, it may have me on Maui instead of Molokai (50 miles away), or Bakersfield instead of the Sierra National Forest (100 miles away). At other times, one or both of ours are dead on within a meter.

Could you please explain what's meant by GC.com in parentheses? Last I knew, c:geo isn't a geocaching.com partner. Like I said, I'm a newbie. Perhaps geocache.com is unaffiliated with c:geo. So far we really like c:geo, but we haven't tried any others yet. What do you recommend as an Android App?

Here's another: Geocaching: Basic Beginner's Guide

We started geocaching a couple of months ago or so and still feel very much like newbies. I see there are at least a couple of books on geocaching. Do any of you recommend any of these? It's a Treasure Hunt! Geocaching & Letterboxing The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching, 3e (Idiot's Guides) new edition I feel like I resemble the title of the latter book!

Hello! Pretty new to geocaching. Currently we use our Android based smart phones with the c:geo App (geocaching.com). The only problem we have so far is that sometimes our phones' GPS aren't too accurate. So, I was thinking about buying a more accurate handheld GPS unit to help with coordinates. I realize we could spend $400 or more and get set up with a standalone GPS that we can use without our smart phones. Reading some of the previous threads on GPS units, I didn't see a whole lot on newer units. Anyway, just wondering if anyone else does what I am suggesting and what GPS would be accurate and AFFORDABLE. Not looking to spend $400 at this time. We aren't very "techy" either, so buying a higher end GPS that can be set up as a standalone unit would probably be beyond our technical capabilities (not to mention learning how to use it). Unless by now there are some units designed specifically just for geocaching and are preloaded with all the geocaching software/apps that is extremely user friendly (at least as user friendly as c:geo). Thanks!