MobileViews Podcast 388: Hello 2022, Goodbye Blackberry, can your Apple Watch save your life?, Jon’s travel tech tips


iPhone 13 Pro photo by Jon Westfall
iPhone 13 Pro photo by Jon Westfall

Jon Westfall is back from his holiday travels. Thanks to Paul Lawler and Ryan Ozawa for co-hosting the past two podcasts (the last two of 2021)! In this first MobileViews Podcast of 2022, Jon and I discuss:

  1. Jon was continues to be very impressed by the iPhone 13 Pro’s low light photo capabilities (see example photo)
  2. BlackBerry will die on January 4th — for real this time
  3. Apple wants to remind us how easy it is to use their products to save your life. Not your typical Apple Ad. Makes you wonder: Does this make LTE AW just make sense?
  4. Jon made it for 10 days with just his iPhone and iPad Mini – no laptop / no iPad Pro.
  1. Apple Dual charger is great, just expensive, for travel.
  2. Oura ring records more sleep tracking data than AW, so ditch the AW on nights I don’t need an alarm. But when you need an alarm, AW is so much nicer than the iPhone blaring at you (A friend disagrees).
  3. VNC & VPS’s are a nice thing to have in the back pocket when you are visiting people and don’t want to drag out a laptop / bigger iPad. Manage most of the world through your iPhone. – Screens 4 for iOS
  4. Apple MagSafe charging pack came in handy a few times for top-offs, but way too small of a capacity.
    Almost convinced that I have the perfect travel bag – the eBags Pro Slim Weekender
  5. If you’re a Swiss Army knife kinda person, definitely get their TapForms. Reminder that this is about the closest you’ll come to MS Access on Mac/iPhone. Just wish it had some reporting functions or synchronization to an actual database backend. $50
  6. Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

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