[Leica] iphone pics in Cuba

[Henning Wulff]

I did take a phone, and was able to use it (slightly). I bought a voice/data package from my provider here that allowed some usage. I never did get the data to work there, though. Voice worked sometimes, in some places. Tanya wanted to be able to make some calls back to check on things.

Henning


On 2015-03-02, at 8:29 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was not able to use my cell phone at all in Cuba.  I think you can get a
> card to use it, but it's expensive and I wanted to get away from cell
> phones anyway.  I just let mine go dead until I got back to Mexico.  I had
> enough problems finding places to charge my camera batteries.  I didn't
> want to allocate one to my phone.  I'm sure you could use it as a camera,
> though.  I saw lots of other people doing that.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> we are going to Cuba on Thursday, besides real cameras we are taking our
>> iphones. They likely won't be of much use as phones, but Tara asked re
>> their use as  (im)pure cameras. I suspect and stated without absolute
>> certainty, they will be fine as cameras, even though all emailing and
>> texting functions will likely be dead. Is this correct, and do you have
>> anything you would like to add to this?
>> 
>> 
>> adios muchachos,
>> 
>> many thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
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