TractorByNet while on a deer stand!

[HCJtractor]

I just got a new I Phone and am really impressed! I am not a techno weenie but this I phone is awesome. It is so simple and intuitive to use, is incredibly fast and useful. I use it as an alarm clock, checking e-mails, pulling up instant weather on an hour by hour basis (including wind direction which is great for hunting plans) and a doppler map. I even have Google Earth with an aerial photo of my hunting lease with stands marked. But most of all, when I am bored on my stand, I can access TBN and read posts. Pretty cool! The TBN ap is really nice. I even use it at lunch rather than reading the newspaper or magazine. What an amazing tool.

 

[buck12]

I agree the iPhones are nice. I am on my second iPhone. My wife had a black berry and switched to an iPhone. I also browse TBN from the deer stand. Well from one stand. Reception is spotty at our hunting camp.

 

[JDgreen227]

I agree the iPhones are nice. I am on my second iPhone. My wife had a black berry and switched to an iPhone. I also browse TBN from the deer stand. Well from one stand. Reception is spotty at our hunting camp.

I have had a Blackberry Curve for 2 1/2 years now, wife just got the latest generation Iphone 4G, her new toy gets no better reception than my antique does, and she really envies the keyboard on my device. My major gripe about the touchscreen keyboard Droids and the Iphones are even if you have small hands it's hard to use the keys without making a mistake.

 

[YesDeere]

I have pretty meaty paws and haven't had any trouble out of mine. I think maybe it's just adjusting to it. I'm on my 3rd iPhone and won't be switching back.

And yes it is awesome for sitting in the stand. Just be battery conscious. I've screwed myself a couple times. Pretty funny to be geeking out and look up to see deer around you!

 

[Depmandog]

I use the iPhone 4, great improvement over the 3GS when viewing pictures on TBN. With my old phone, the app would crash about every third picture.

My only complaint now, you can't read the posters profile - so you have NO idea where people are located. I hardly ever use the computer for my TBN fix. Guess I am gonna have to get a tablet so I can relax in my easy chair or bed and cruise the forums.

I can see how easy it would be to get engrossed in a thread, and look up to see white tail heading over the hill!!

Dean

 

[Combustix]

That's why i use mine in the duck blind. If i miss a flight I can always get the next one and still keep up on the latest threads:laughing:

 

[Jesse11]

Love Apple == Love life

 

[impdaddy]

Just got an iphone 4s and read this thread. Just downloaded the TBN app.

It is an awesome phone.:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Egon]

Next step is to get a laptop with camera scynchronized with mechanisms controling the rifle. Sit at home in comfort and go hunting.:thumbsup:

 

[TCowner]

Sorry guys, but I guess it must be the angry middle aged man showing up here. I've moved to the cell phone stage in my life, kicking and screaming mind you. But the new technology that everyone seems to embrace I just don't get.

I'm 57 years old and my day starts early and is fairly non stop until around 6:00 pm. But to me, nothing is more enjoyable than the time after 6:00 pm, or the weekends, when I am away from the computer, cell phone, etc. I admit I am not a hunter any more but spend a lot of time in the woods in hot pursuit of firewood. I also admit I take my cell phone for emergency purposes only. Its just a time that I enjoy without the need to interact with the world. Its my time even if only for a few hours.

I accept its a different time and that I must accept these changes and for the most part I do. But is just seems as though we could survive a few hours in hour lives without the access to the internet, music downloads, movies and all of the other options that these new machines offer. I don't begrudge the posters on this topic if they enjoy these and use them. Who knows, maybe if I had one and after 100 hours of intense training in their use would have one with me at all times. But for now, I will just settle for the cell phone.

Of course, my grandfather if he were alive would think I was crazy for feeling I needed to have a cell phone as well. So it is a probably a case of the angry middle aged man not prepared to embrace the new technology. But for now I am going to hold out as long as I can.