Gear Review Te Araroa

Review – Phone and Applications – Samsung S3 (review Feb 15)

Phone – Samsung S3 Mini

Rating: 10/10

Weight: 112 g

Good: Reliable, easy to use

Bad: Not waterproof but the case I used was

Comments: Good phone that did everything I needed. I put a 128 gb micro SD card in so I could back up all of my photos onto my phone and had all of my files and maps. The battery lasted well though I kept it on flight mode unless using the GPS. As a backup I took 2 spare batteries.

Applications

Panasonic Image Application. Allowed me to connect to my camera by WiFi to transfer images and control my camera from a distance.

NZ Tides. Invaluable for the North Island. Does not need connection to work.

ViewRanger. Purchased NZ Topo Maps for this and loaded the TA track to overlay the maps. It was fantastic to be able to zoom into quality maps for more detail than my printed maps. Also a more recent version of maps than the TA maps. This was my GPS for the walk and while a little slower to get a fix than a dedicated GPS in the bush was fast to get a fix in the open. I compared theaccuracy by running a GPS and this side by side before I left and it was accurate. This application also let me upload my location which others could view on the ViewRanger webpage but I did need connection for this function to work.

Photoczip. Compression software that from my files let me compress 99 pictures at a time, when picture open in Gallery or unlimited numbers directly from the Photoczip application. Simple and easy to use.

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