cardsun Posted June 12, 2010 Posted June 12, 2010 Hello all, My 10 year old and I just got started and hooked into this hobby immediately! I downloaded a trial geocaching program onto my Blackberry which expires today. My question is, do I pay the twenty bucks to continue using the program on the phone or do I invest in a handheld GPS? The most I could spend is $100 and I wouldn't want to have to pay for maps and updates and such all the time. Please advise! We can't wait to go on our next adventure! Thanks! Quote
NordicMan Posted June 12, 2010 Posted June 12, 2010 How well did you like the Blackberry program? If it served all your Geocaching needs, then send them the $20 Quote
+Coldgears Posted June 14, 2010 Posted June 14, 2010 I don't own blackberries, but surely there must be a free app? Quote
+WI Snow Clan Posted June 14, 2010 Posted June 14, 2010 I have mixed feelings about the geo navigator for the BB. I purchased it but I find that the GPS in the BB is ok at best. I usually get about 9 feet accuracy and when your looking for a micro 9 feet could mean a long time looking or a "not find' I use Geo Navigator for the logging portion of the find and my nuvi 660 for the navigation. Quote
cstocker61 Posted June 23, 2010 Posted June 23, 2010 i found a free app called Blackstar. It will let you access and download caches from this site. I'm very new to all this so it was some work understanding how it all interfaced. Blackstar has compass, altimiter, waypoint saving and commenting. Quote
+Hozack Posted July 10, 2010 Posted July 10, 2010 My husband and I use his Blackberry Curve 8310 for our geocaching and usually it's pretty good. We have the premium membership...my only problem is that I can't get it recognize both our devices (both the same type of blackberry) so I can't get it on to my own blackberry curve 8310. Any tips? Quote
+geopenguin Posted July 11, 2010 Posted July 11, 2010 Cacheberry is what you need. It's $10. It does everything my oregon does but differently. FYI, blackerry apps are locked to the individual phone's pin number. So, to use any BB app on 2 phones, you'd need to buy it twice. Quote
+jeffbouldin Posted July 11, 2010 Posted July 11, 2010 I have a BB and use both Blackstar Navigation and Cacheberry. BS is free and Cacheberry is $10. I also own a Delorme PN-30. The BB GPSr is fine in an open area but you get in the woods or around tall buildings and you loose sat lock alot. The PN-30 (and any other hand held GPSR with a high sensitivity chip) retains the signal much better and is more accurate. As for the apps. Blackstar is free, and as such it has a very utilitarian interface. It does work great. One of the nicest things it will do is take a lock and pull a search page on the closest GC.com caches. You still have to go into those cache pages individually and download the gpx file to get it on your phone. It also integrates with a service called bcaching.com. Cacheberry is $10 and has a nicer interface. I use BS to access the info but Cacheberry to utilize the info. My opinion (and we all know what that is worth!) is that if you have the money to get a decent used GPSr (should be able to for under $100) you would be happier. If that is too much then get all opf those ap[ps and choose the one you like best and save for a GPSr. Quote
dougp01 Posted July 23, 2010 Posted July 23, 2010 I have a Blackberry 9000 and have used CacheSense (formerly CacheBerry) for some time now. I like it just fine. I use it to supplement my Garmin handheld. I especially use it when I have a need for a few cache-n-dache and the Garmin is still at home. Any limitations in the way of accuracy are a result of the GPS chipset included in the Blackberry, this is the same chipset used by all other smart phones. My phone often reports to the nearest +/- 6 feet when I have a clear sky and no metallic reflecting surfaces nearby. Even with my Garmin, I have the BB in hand as well. While I am in a cell service area, I can double check to see if there are any logs associated with the cache, get the steps to a multi- or puzzle-cache. I can log my finds and now CacheSense has a way of taking photos along the way and associating them with the GC number. I use the phone camera for reference so I can later correlate to my higher quality digital camera. As a result of this I am completely paperless in my caching efforts. Customer service is great and I also joined the CacheSense beta tester's group. Some of my requests and suggestions actually find their way into the final application. All this for a single lifetime fee. Quote
+Team_Searchgeo Posted July 23, 2010 Posted July 23, 2010 this guy is selling all he has for a 100$ click here Quote
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