Europe on a Shoestring

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Dark_un

about 42 minutes until the pathetic little excuse of a battery dies.

Really? Then your battery sucks. I use mine the whole day and have no problems. Recharge at night when I get back to my hotel and good to go for the next day.

[Selina]

Originally Posted by elly_mac

the only thing is, an iphone takes so much longer to type things up. i am one of those people who will only ever buy a touch phone once we are forced to. i have big fingers and find touch phones hard to "type" on

i used to be like you too - but when you're offered free wifi at the expense of a few hundred grams of weight of the ipod then you leant to type on one - they're not too bad once you get the hang of it

also most hostels offer free wifi and some cities even have it in major areas.

spent 3 months on the road with an ipod touch and never lost it - did keep in in my day pack (buried deep) or in the lockers/safes in the hostels or on me personally - probably should have been more cautious with it in hind sight but then again you don't want to spend the whole trip being paranoid.

[Dark_un]

Originally Posted by Mike

Really? Then your battery sucks. I use mine the whole day and have no problems. Recharge at night when I get back to my hotel and good to go for the next day.

Not my battery - I don't have an i-phone. I went camping up the mountains in the snow last August and one of my mates brought his i-phone. Freshly charged when we left, completely dead just 4 hours later. We used the GPS and the altimeter a bit on the way up. Shocking battery life. If the only travelling your i-phone does is from your home to your office, then I'm sure it's great but it's not for long term travelling in my opinion. I've spent 3 days on an ex-soviet train with barely a working heater, let alone a power socket - wouldn't be much good there.

My phone lasts for days without charging.