Just How Smart is a Smart phone ?

This topic is to show just how times have changed with the advance of smart phones and there apps that can help you with just about anything.

So the following example has all be done on my smart phone. The images are my time line of events.

I hope you enjoy my post.

Description: My time starts sitting on Bidston Hill on a sunny afternoon.

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Description: I can check my location with google maps from above.

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Description: I can listen to my music or tune into local radio as I take in the views.

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Description: As I relax I can find out where a plane in the sky above if flying too. Is it somewhere nice and do I wish I was on it?

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Description: I can track my walk and review it later if I wish too.

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Description: Stopping to take a picture of the windmill on Bidston Hill. Again a feature of all modern phones.

Description: Finally using a photo editor to adjust some tones and create a photo frame. Which not so long ago would need a Pc and expensive software.

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I'm a Juice FM girl myself ;-) when mobile phones first came out I thought "I'm not getting one....I'll never need one" NOW?? I have my life in my phone, my diary management, my photos, my favourite songs, all my contacts, my Internet...5 minutes without it and the world is coming to an end :-)

A smart phone indeed. Nicely illustrated Mark.

Nice! Which smart phone do you have?

Galaxy Note 2

But any recent models of smart phone can do the above and more.
Its the additional Apps that make your phone really smart.

I could go on and on but just wanted to just highlight probably what the minimum a modern smart phone is capable of sitting on a seat on a hill in the middle of nowhere.

Is the note 2 a phone lol.

What app do you use for finding out about the planes in the sky?

I use flightradar24 but it may not be the best one.

I love my smart phone. When I was away the other week I was on a road somewhere close to the end of the airport runway. you could not see it due to a load of trees. I used google maps on my phone with gps on to see my position and line myself up with the end of the runway. I then opened flightradar24 app and noticed that there was a plane close by on its way. As soon as the app showed it flying around the southern tip of the island, there it appeared round the side of the mountain. I then got my camera out and got some awesome photos of it flying right over my head as it came in to land.

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Just How Smart is a Smart phone

Yeh flightradar24.

For a great Android mapping app try Maverick:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codesector.maverick.lite&hl=en

And another good app to have if you're out and about is the Geocaching one. I love how you can just quickly find a cache, log that you found it and even upload a picture, whereas before you'd have to do the research at home on the web, write down the clues, program the location into your GPS and then upload the information when you got home.