smart phone apps

[Skip]

Wish I could bring up the scene from JAWS when Quint was giving Hooper holy sh*t for bringing a shark cage on the boat.


All these wild electronics / smart phones - unreal what they can do.

The Dunkin' Donut locater app - now that is worth it

[Spot77]

Originally Posted by Skip

Wish I could bring up the scene from JAWS when Quint was giving Hooper holy sh*t for bringing a shark cage on the boat.


All these wild electronics / smart phones - unreal what they can do.

The Dunkin' Donut locater app - now that is worth it

Funny....I was laid up for a couple of days and they were running the Jaws marathon on Spike tv. I know the scene well now,

I never used to be a fan of smartphones...I like simple stuff that works. The first few "smart" phones that my company issued me were complete duds and always had to be rebooted at the worst times. So far, this iphone has been great.

Marty let me know if you find any really kick ass apps for it. I forgot to mention that there's a nice tide app available.

[5th Tuition]

Phone is due in Tomorrow (Tuesday). I know Don has a weather app that showed us the rain on radar this summer while we fished. We could tell that most of the rain was north of us and traveling east to west; we didn't have to stop fishing.
5th

[Breakaway]

Marty,

You're going to love having a smartphone. I resisted for years thinking all I needed was a basic phone. I was wrong, I use mine all the time. Mine is an Android, but I'm sure Apple has the same apps. I have tide and current apps that are cool, but being able to go online and check the weather radar for storms and seeing realtime buoy data is what I like most.

Oh yeah, almost forgot about the TF app....

[5th Tuition]

Originally Posted by Breakaway

Marty,

You're going to love having a smartphone. I resisted for years thinking all I needed was a basic phone. I was wrong, I use mine all the time. Mine is an Android, but I'm sure Apple has the same apps. I have tide and current apps that are cool, but being able to go online and check the weather radar for storms and seeing realtime buoy data is what I like most.

Oh yeah, almost forgot about the TF app....

I have to see what's preloaded. I want a nice gps and weather app. Also the "flashlight" app". Being able to check tide, current, and buoy data would be sweet also. I went to a "best buy" websight and I see there are lots of free apps and some that cost a couple bucks. I'll be learning the phone this winter so it will be a help to me on the water this spring.
5th (Marty)
p.s. can't wait to get my music on it as well

[PhilK999]

Hi Marty, I bought my iphone mostly to use for the ipod feature. No more looking for a radio station that fades in and out and it is all music I like.

It has an excellent camera and video features that work easliy and better quality than the old digital camera i had on board.

BoatUS has an app that will send your GPS coordiantes to them and request a tow if you need it.

ABC 2 weather app has a in motion weather radar that is easy to update. Weather.com's sometimes will not update if you are trying to watch an apporaching storm

There are fishing log app that cost, but there is a built in audio recorder so you can make good records of catches or there is a note pad

You can check baseball and football scores easly through free apps

You can post to here from the water your fishing report, free app

Pandora Radio is a neat music thing. You tell it what you want to hear and it will select songs and send them to you, You thumbs up or thumbs down the song and it narrows in on what you like. Problem with this app, is it uses up a lot of data download. Is better used on land where you can download via wifi

There are GPS porgrams that cost, I have not used any of them yet. but are available. I beleive you purchase the app and then the map for the area you fish.

Smart Buoy app lets you look at all of the smart buoys up and down the bay with real time data, free app, there is a float plan app free so you can email a freind or family where you are planning on fishing that day and when you plan on returning.

There is also a bay guide for identifying species that was free.

If you want it there is an app. I got mine back in March and love it.

[Blakesdad]

What a timely post.. I bought my wife a Iphone 4 for Xmas and she hates the ****ing thing.. She wants her android back and NOW.. SO I'm kinda stuck with the IPHONE. I'm mostly and android type also, but since I now own the Apple, was wondering if I should dick around with it for awhile.

Wife seems frustrated by it.. How hard can it be/ different than Android ??

[garlien]

I guess I a not as cool as you "Steve Jobs" lovers....I have a Blackberry and love it...

Anyway, there are a couple of websites I keep in my favorites all the time....

1> The weather channel radar is very good on a mobile device (it has a zoom feature and its free) and has helped me avoid storms, and more often than not, move around storms...

2> I use the MD DNR tidefinder a lot cause it is modified for mobile devices, easy to use, and less of a pain than to look on the HDS - 8.

3> Like Shawn I keep a number of the NOAA (NDBC/FSKM2) weather buoys loaded...Use these more than almost anything on the phone except the camera...

4> It takes a little bit of playing around and you will need to bookmark your favorite areas but the tide/current predictor from U of SC is great...It is at tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide

Will try to post some others when I get a chance...

[5th Tuition]

Trying the iPhone now. Hope this posts. Marty