Smartphone sanitizer - GIF

[Frank S]

Got to admit that I refer to it as my electronic leash. But I do find some uses for it. I'm mathematically challenged, so the various calculators come in handy. I've got a scientific, feeds and speeds, and ohm's law calculators, for example. That and everything else it does is quite a bit smaller than my TI-86. I can be anywhere, and access any of the books on it, though the screen is easier to read on the tablet. Camera in the phone is great for before and after shots of stuff to be repaired/completed repairs. Tablet camera is not as good, but it's ok. The so-called flash is about useless, but I don't have to carry a separate camera. Wish I'd had something like this when I was in the USAF. I spent ten years as a photographer for them. Would have been a great deal easier to carry than the 4x5 Graphex XL I sometimes needed, and still better even for the Nikon F kit. I'm using a cheap Motorola MOTO G7 Supra. I'm hard on phones, so it doesn't pay to buy the more expensive ones. Though a ruggedized phone would be nice. Ruggedized cases are fairly cheap, though I'm not sure they'd survive throwing across the shop.

Bill

Bill

my phone is nearly 3/4" thick but it doesn't have any extra protective cases to fit over it that I am aware of my old galaxy S4Active had a tiple layered case made of rubber I even had a 2layered hardened glass screen on it everyone called it my Godzilla phone I managed to keep it alive for about 5 years by keeping a couple spare digitizers on hand it got to where I could change a screen out on it in less than 5 minutes but it finally developed internal issues so I folded it and bought a windows 10 phone good phone but too delicate for my liking even though it had features I found handy when the networks killed off the 3g that phone died and I had to find a replacement the X8800 seemed to fit the bill. It's on an Android OS not much different than the old Galaxy but even with the quirks of Android at least it's not Apple sauce. I refuse to knowingly own anything even remotely associated with Apple