Virtually all current cell phones have GPS capabilities. If you are in a wilderness area with no cellular coverage, you would need a satellite phone which is expensive and the cost to make/receive phone calls. There is no additional cost to use the GPS function of the phone.
While you don't want to use internet, virtually all cell phone companies require smart/data capable phones to have a mandatory data plan.
Almost all current cell phones also have cameras.
Hi All ![]()
I'm looking at buying my first cell phone to use for a camera /GPS/emergency calls while wilderness hiking since I know next to nothing about cellphones I figured I better ask
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for the camera I'd like at least a 10X zoom and features and picture quality comparable to a $100 point and click, are phone cameras that good yet?
for GPS I just need to be able to enter a waypoint and have an arrow pointing at it and the distance, it would be nice to be able to store waypoints, I don't need maps.
Does GPS cost anything to use? can I use GPS without a provider?, with a prepaid provider? (I'm leaning towards 711, due to their prepaid minutes being good for a year.)
I'm not even vaguely interested in internet browsing from my phone although it would be nice if I could access my wifi at home.
I'd like to get away as inexpensively as possible, I can get an amazing GPS camera and a cheap phone for about $350, so a basic camera in a gps phone wouldn't be worth more than $300 CAD is that doable or should I be shopping for camera phones?
Thanx
PS any links to good basic info for new cell phone users would be much apprieciated![]()

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