+SunshyneSeeker Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I've been looking at upgrading my cellphone to one that I can geocache with. What is everyone's experience with caching with one and what works well and what doesn't? Thanks Quote Link to comment
+OldBenC Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Have you considered what OS? There are geocaching applications for WM, Palm, iPhone, et cetera. I've been looking at upgrading my cellphone to one that I can geocache with. What is everyone's experience with caching with one and what works well and what doesn't? Thanks Quote Link to comment
+leatherman Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 What cell service do you have? Verizons GPS doesn't work with any apps other than VZNav. Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 I use the Verizon Storm. Full Screen with good interface. Blackstar does a nice job of pointing you to the cache and you can log from online. Also it interfaces with bcaching so you don't have to keep the PQ's on the phone. Just ask it to query bCaching. Quote Link to comment
+leatherman Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 I have heard the Storm is unlocked, but many at Crackberry.com say theirs doesn't work either. Quote Link to comment
+SunshyneSeeker Posted April 22, 2009 Author Share Posted April 22, 2009 My cell phone company is At&t. The only other company in the area are Alltel and im not really sure I want an iPhone. Quote Link to comment
NordicMan Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 If you're willing to wait a bit,, the brand spanking new Palm Pre is supposed to be out soon (from Sprint). It has built-in GPS and if all the rumors are even half way true it's gonna be an AWESOME smartphone! http://www.palm.com Quote Link to comment
+PFCJS Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 so there is no hope for us Verizon customers? Quote Link to comment
+Mredria Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 my g1 with geodroid works great. Quote Link to comment
+PFCJS Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 my g1 with geodroid works great. through Verizon? Quote Link to comment
+AZGeek Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 My cell phone company is At&t. The only other company in the area are Alltel and im not really sure I want an iPhone. Curve+BlackStar+PQs on the memory card. B* will import the caches, sort, you can log the cache right from the phone, and if you really need to, view it's location using googlemaps (can't use BBMaps on the new Curve). Quote Link to comment
guggie Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 so there is no hope for us Verizon customers? The Palm Pre is going to be an exclusive on Verizon. Looks great. Probably worth waiting for. Quote Link to comment
NordicMan Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 so there is no hope for us Verizon customers? The Palm Pre is going to be an exclusive on Verizon. Looks great. Probably worth waiting for. No the Palm Pre is going to be an exclusive for Sprint. Quote Link to comment
+PCIJOHN Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 My cell phone company is At&t. The only other company in the area are Alltel and im not really sure I want an iPhone. I am telling you from a lot of research and experience I am a PC manufacturer and really had a hard time considering the iPhone but once I made the choice with the geocaching app as well as everything else it does it is by far the best phone I have ever had and I have had them all. You will love the geocaching app I use it with a cheap venture HC and have a great time with it!! IMHO Quote Link to comment
Andronicus Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Windows mobile has lots of great GeoCaching Apps (3 or 4 good freeware apps+ some pay ones). Any Windows mobile device with GPS and a good size screen should work great. I have an HTC Touch Vogue (CDMA), it works great, but the GPSr in it was not super, so I bought an external Bluetooth GPSr for $70(Canadian); it was rather hard to get working, but now that it is, it wokrks great. Is AT&T CDMA or GSM? If it is CDMA, I think that all of them will be stuck with the Qualcomm GPSr wich is like mine, is not super. Lots of people claim that the BB GPSr is top noch, but I have not seen any specs on them, so can't vouch for that. Quote Link to comment
+Rebelglitch Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 so there is no hope for us Verizon customers? Yes there is hope! Verizon IS in the process of UNlocking WM phones. I have the Omnia i910 with Prerelease software. Works great with google map and GCz. First wave of unlocked GPS Phone for VZW should be out around May 11th 2009 and most HTC phones that VZW sell have been unlocked. Hope this helps. Happy caching! Note: the Omnia i910 is not the same as the Omnia i900 Quote Link to comment
+docross Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Anybody have experience with the Samsung Saga? I have Verizon, and the Saga is a world-phone, can use it on GSM network as well as Verizon's CDMA. It uses Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. Quote Link to comment
+KC2ZGU Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 so there is no hope for us Verizon customers? No. If you want to install custom software on your phone or do anything with it that doesn't involve your network operator billing you extra every second, then you picked the wrong network. Everybody should know this by now. Quote Link to comment
+PFCJS Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 so there is no hope for us Verizon customers? No. If you want to install custom software on your phone or do anything with it that doesn't involve your network operator billing you extra every second, then you picked the wrong network. Everybody should know this by now. Wow...didn't try to stoke up any hostility! Easy there big guy! I have Verizon because out of over 500 people in my contacts list probably 498 of them have Verizon and plus where I live it is the only phone company that has coverage all over the areas I travel. I have tried them all, and I mean all through my company and Verizon has a signal everywhere that the other companies drop out. Anyways, thanks for the info and I will wait on some of the unlocked phones! Quote Link to comment
+KC2ZGU Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 so there is no hope for us Verizon customers? No. If you want to install custom software on your phone or do anything with it that doesn't involve your network operator billing you extra every second, then you picked the wrong network. Everybody should know this by now. Wow...didn't try to stoke up any hostility! Easy there big guy! I have Verizon because out of over 500 people in my contacts list probably 498 of them have Verizon and plus where I live it is the only phone company that has coverage all over the areas I travel. I have tried them all, and I mean all through my company and Verizon has a signal everywhere that the other companies drop out. Anyways, thanks for the info and I will wait on some of the unlocked phones! OK, technically that should read "you bought a locked phone from the wrong network operator" (although custom GPS software is problematic on any locked phone now since everyone's selling their own navigation services). If you get an unlocked CDMA phone you could do whatever you want with it, but they are somewhat harder to find than unlocked GSM/UMTS handsets, an the cynic in me has to remind you that since you don't have a SIM card Verizon can hypothetically refuse to activate your new phone. There's also the possibility of replacing the crippled Verizon firmware; I've heard of people doing this to get full bluetooth OBEX support, so it could probably allow unrestricted GPS access (although you might be limited to BREW apps instead of J2ME for dumbphones) Verizon has such a horribly abusive history with how they set up their phones that whenever someone wants to use their phone for bluetooth/gps/music player/etc i have to ask whether being able to talk to 80 million people for free is really worth losing all that flexibility. Quote Link to comment
+geopotterkings Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 Geocache Navigator 2.07 works for the Storm now and is awesome. Quote Link to comment
+cacheninja Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 I use the ATT Fuze. You can install whatever you want to it and has some great free windows mobile apps for it from www.freewarepocketpc.net check it out if you're still looking at options. Quote Link to comment
+McGeoMom Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 so there is no hope for us Verizon customers? Yes there is hope! Verizon IS in the process of UNlocking WM phones. I have the Omnia i910 with Prerelease software. Works great with google map and GCz. First wave of unlocked GPS Phone for VZW should be out around May 11th 2009 and most HTC phones that VZW sell have been unlocked. Hope this helps. Happy caching! Note: the Omnia i910 is not the same as the Omnia i900 I have the Omnia i910. How do I use it to GeoCache? If I read your post correctly, you are using it? Quote Link to comment
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