Some background - back in the day, vinyl DJs planned for their gigs, and depending on their crowd would take between 100 and 500 pieces of vinyl with them - essentially 1-5 record bags or crates. But having read comments and seen a video about the new Stanton SCS.4DJ, where having access to "only" 20,000 tracks is described as a limitation and a problem, I felt it was time to offer a long needed perspective on just what 20K tracks equates in old money, and just how the limitation might be more with the mindset of DJs and less with the technology. Thus, so far our costs for cell service are lower.The digital age brings with it so many benefits, one of which is being able to ditch the back-breaking record bags and carry a vast collection on just a USB key. We’ve got the phones set to acquire most data over WiFi (books, podcasts, maps, news). However, because the lodge and the cabins have WiFi, we had access to both data and text / voice calling during our stay. We stayed at a cabin at Shawnee and had no cell signal. A large dead zone is Shawnee State Forest and Shawnee State Park. However there are still dead spots in Ohio where neither network has coverage. Having access to two networks has been handy and we’ve gotten access to more LTE (fast) networks than we had with Sprint alone. I’ve had the service since January and Deb’s had it for several weeks. It may change providers several times during the course of the day. If WiFi is not available, the phone will look for the fastest and strongest Sprint or T-Mobile signal. If the phone is connected to WiFi, it will use that for data and phone calls (both voice and text). Google has cut a deal with Sprint and T-Mobile to use both networks.
The cost is $20 / month for unlimited voice / text plus a rate of $10 / GB (rounded to the nearest MB) for cellular data plus tax. We signed up for Project Fi (replacing our previous Sprint service). Project Fi is Google’s entry into the market as a wireless provider. The Nexus 5x as well as it’s big brother the Nexus 6P phone support Google’s Project Fi.
Project Fiĭeb and I recently replaced our aging Android phones with Nexus 5X phones.
There is a free version (with advertising) and a paid version (which I purchased) that costs $2.38.
The MyTrails app is published by FrogSparks and is available from the Google Play Store. MyTrails: 4.1 mile hike on Maat Shawnee State Forest MyTrails: Details of Shawnee Hike MyTrails: Elevation graph for Shawnee Hike My Trails: Recording Preferences – one of the several options screens MyTracks displayed calories burned, MyTrails doesn’t.Can export to Google Maps, but not as easily.MyTracks audibly announced distance and speed every mile, MyTrails doesn’t do this.The capability of storing off-line maps for use in areas with no cell signal.Can screen capture images, or export GPX files.Summary pages of details and statistics from hike.Can be set to omit ‘pauses’ from map – stopping to take photos, etc.Variety of free map sources including Microsoft and Google maps (including terrain and satellite maps), OSM (open source) maps, and my favorite: USGS 7.5′ Topo Maps.I tried a variety of GPS apps from the Android store and settled on an app called MyTrails. However, I’d gotten used to using my phone for hiking and the GPS chip in my latest phone was more accurate and got satellite lock a lot faster than the older Magellen unit. We could always go back to using the handheld Magellen.