{"id":11,"date":"2010-07-05T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T03:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jalyhe.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/05\/geeky-travel"},"modified":"2020-11-02T04:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T04:24:54","slug":"geeky-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jaly.us\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Geeky Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Compared to our first trip to Spain and
\nbeyond<\/a> about 15 years ago, technology is very different now. Back then we
\nworry about where to find ATM and get money. Now we worry about cell phone,
\nInternet connection, and GPS. Of these, Internet is not required, so we\u2019ll just
\nuse it wherever we can find access. Cell phone and GPS, however, we would
\nrather not leave without.<\/font><\/p>\n

For most of the world one type of phone is good enough\u2014GSM.
\nBut in the US it\u2019s not the
\nonly game in town, and the GSM frequencies used in Spain
\nand Morocco is not those
\nused in the US.
\nFor this trip I bought an Iphone
\nlook-alike<\/a> on ebay, for about $60 including shipping. And a Garmin GPS.<\/font><\/p>\n

I9+++ Phone<\/h2>\n

The new phone turned out to be a geek\u2019s trap, in the sense
\nthat it has a long list of hardware features, and an even longer list of
\nsoftware glitches, some of them plaintively easy to fix, if only we had the
\nmeans to change the code.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some of the hardware features:<\/font><\/p>\n