Genoist

While it is a good browser, Opera Mobile still is not as fast as the wap site.

Scraping from the GC.com website is a big no no. If you want info on a new cache, why not just fire up wap.geocaching.com and check it out there. CacheMate is more a mobile PQ reader. Load up tons of descriptions and hit multiple caches instead of just cherry picking for new caches.

I've done this for years with the various PDA/Smartphones that I have carried. I look up (and sometimes log) caches from my phone, take pics of the search, and have even listed new caches from my phone. I recently began using Google Maps (along with a BT GPS receiver) to help find the best parking for some caches.

The biggest feature that would make the mobile site more useful would be the ability to filter out finds. Another thought just came to me today. What if premium members could preview their PQ's from the WAP interface?

On my BlackBerry, it is not a pleasant experience to visit the full gc.com site. It can be done, but it takes a long time, even on an EV-DO connection.

I think that this would be best for hiding. Seems to be a bit large and un-portable for searching.

I look forward to the release of the Smartphone version of CacheMate. I am going to be getting the Q9M in the near future, so this will come in very handy. Right now I use a Palm Zire for my CacheMate device, but I would love to have only 1 device to carry with me (since I carry my phone with me anyway).

Assuming you can save attachments from the email app, wouldn't it be enough to just have GPX processing on the phone? I'm talking about getting record OFF of the device after a day of caching.

Just because people SAY they've enjoyed it on a log, does not mean that they actually did. Everyone i know hates bush hides like that, but only 1 in 10 will say that on their log. Most just say thanks or something similar. It is actually not a bush hide at all.

I think the capability records via e-mail would be great, that would keep me from having to hook up to the computer to get my records off the smartphone. Also, while I don't know if this is possible, it would be sweet to have some sort of integration to the camera so that I could somehow associate certain pictures with certain caches.

My GC14V01 cache is designed to be a very difficult and frustrating search, but so far everyone who has found it has enjoyed it quite a bit. In my defense, this is not a micro, it is a decon container, and I could even use a larger container if I wanted to (and also wanted to make it more frustrating when people can't find an ammo container at the coordinates, lol.

I despise evergreen tree/bush caches, micro and full size alike. I have had an allergy to pine since I was young (nothing major, but I hate the smell, the sticky sap, and little red rash when I get poked too much by the needles). Evergreen caches pop up all to often in my opinion. Even if you have no allergy to pine, it is just no fun to dig around a poky sharp tree.

I really like using the WAP page to look up a cache if I already know the GCID, but it really sucks when you have no data at all to begin with. I personally think that a mobile "my account" page would be great. Maybe wap.geocaching.com/my or something like that. I would love to be able to filter out caches that I have already found. That would make it much easier to find new caches, or pick a cache that I would like to find during lunch break during work. I was also thinking that a 'high end' mobile site would be nice as well for those of us who use PDA phones, or regular phones with more advanced web browsers on them. The existing site is great for older phones that are mainly only capable of text-only browsing. I figure that a lot of geocachers are technology buffs, so I wouldn't be suprised if there are a lot of cachers out there with wireless enabled PDA's, PDA phones, or high end standard phones who would benefit from a higher end mobile site. But all-in-all, I would settle for, and be happy with, my first idea, of a mobile "my account" site, and the ability to filter out found caches from search results.

273 active caches within 15 miles for me. Back in the day when I started there were probably about 30-50 within that distance.

I'm hoping for this as well. I think it would come in very handy when I only need to grab one or two cache coordinates instead of hundreds like I normally do with my PQ's.

You can sort of do this using the companion website, www.vznavigator.com, but it seems to convert the coordinates into the nearest address to them. I haven't really looked into this much, but I'll have to give it a try again and see what happens.

Mobipocket reader is available for BlackBerries, and even supports memory cards. Just select the option to get an ebook with your pocket queries, and you're all set.

Some features I'd LOVE to see: 1) Filter out finds. 2) Search by waypoint (instead of only zip code or coordinates). 3) Maybe a high-end mobile site for those of us with PDA or high end phones. Not exactly related to the mobile site, but to phones: 4) Log via SMS/txt message. IE, register your mobile number on the site and compose a txt with the waypoint and your log to a special e-mail address.

This is my fair-weather cache mobile, my 2005 Vespa ET4. 70+ mpg, the perfect caching machine.

The Samsung i730 is a nice phone, but it is considered EOL (end of life). I had the Q on two different occasions, and I really liked it, but as far as Windows Mobile goes, I prefer the Pocket PC (now called Windows Mobile Professional) more than I like the smartphone (now called Windows Mobile Standard). Even though the Pocket PC's use a stylus, you can still use most of the functions of the device without ever having to get they stylus out. Anyway, I assume you're with Verizon Wireless (which I will shamelessly plug since I work for them), so make sure you take advantage of the 30 day return/exchange period with whichever device you get, and if you don't like it, get a different one. As far as the data plan, it is great to log caches, but sometimes it's nice (and a lot more convenient) to have the cache data that you need stored locally instead of depending on the GC.com mobile site (you'll see what I mean when you go to use it). You can use MobiPocket reader on the Q to look at your PQ's (just make sure you check the ebook option when you create the PQ). On the Pocket PC side, I'll agree with what everyone else was saying and strongly suggest dropping a few bucks to pick up a copy of Cache Mate. Good luck, and enjoy your paperless caching / mobile logging.

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On my 2004 Ford Ranger 4-Cylinder my MP$ is averaging 9.45. On my 2005 Vespa ET4 my MP$ is averaging 33.08. As you can guess, my Vespa has been almost my exclusing cache machine.

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I too would love to see this type of functionality. It would be great to log caches using sms (or e-mail for that matter).

The Motorola Q runs Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphones. I too have this device, and love it. Has anyone found any Geocaching software that will run on it yet? Right now my Q usage is mainly logging the caches from the mobile geocaching website (yuck).