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The worrying difference for me here is that when I travel, I pull my phone out of my pocket 50 times a day but I only use my passport once or twice a week and c
by discordance 4y ago
The worrying difference for me here is that when I travel, I pull my phone out of my pocket 50 times a day but I only use my passport once or twice a week and can store it safely in between.
- nicbou 4y agoI strapped mine to a motorcycle and subjected it to sun, rain and dust for a few months. The GPS interface was baked into the screen, but it kept going. It even flew off the bike at speed once. I never had a phone fail from abuse. But I had much dumber failures: - Walk on a log to get a better picture of a lake, slip, and drop the phone in freezing water. Took multiple weeks to regain access to everything. - The humidity presses buttons in my pocket. Too many passcode attempts, iPhone factory resets itself while abroad. Lost a bunch of unsynced photos that time.
- discordance 4y agoThat's cool, although I was referring mostly to the risk of loss or theft, not reliability. Phones are a more generally sought after commodity compared to passports.
- eternityforest 4y agoYeah, but if you lose it you won't notice for a week and it has no GPS tracking, nor PIN lock, and it can be harder to replace. The phone number is scarier than the phone itself, since backup sim cards aren't a thing most people do, and replacement might be slow or impossible till you get back.