The final of my 3 issues is storage – where will I keep all the pictures/video I record on the trip.
A quick search on-line shows that I would get about 3 hours of HD recording on my 16GB iPhone4. That’s not too bad at all but I’m sure that wont be enough and it also is only 3 hours if there are no photos, no music and little apps on the phone. My contract is up in December so there is a chance I could have the new iPhone5 (which is rumoured to coming out later this year) that will hopefully have some additional storage but I still doubt that it will have a micro SD slot to allow me to use multiple cards which I can just swap-out when full.
To help me prepare for this I have to use my current iPhone44 as the device I’m using. With no expandable memory I have to make do with just the 16GB of storage (minus all the other stuff stored on my phone).
The only thing I can do is try to download from my iPhone4 onto a laptop/computer at the end of every day. Now this is something which will cause me issues. Even if I do take a laptop I still need to charge the laptop. I used to have a little Acer Aspire One which had a 9 cell battery giving 6-8 hours off 1 battery, however I don’t have it anymore and it did run Linux which didn’t have an iTunes account on it. If I can get one of these, and install windows on it, then I might have a way of downloading from my iPhone4 on a nightly basis. The Acer Aspire One, although not the most hard-hitting power-wise of laptops has a small screen (less battery power required), a slow processor (less battery power required) and most importantly has a really small form factor so it wont take up much space or weigh much – This is a bonus if I need to carry it with me while on my bike.
As I want to take plenty of video and pictures I think it is really important to get a laptop for the trip. My sister had an AAO which she dropped and now I can get the HD recognised. I wonder if I can get it fixed for a reasonable fee? It would be a great thing to have for the trip, and with perhaps a couple of spare batteries I could make the entire trip. I know I wouldn’t be able to edit any video with the AAO but I could download it from the iPhone44 using iTunes no problems.
I do have a cigar lighter to 3 pin plug adapter so if I have a large enough lock box/saddle box then I’ll be able to charge the laptop/phone on the move!
The more I think about it, the more I need to get a bike sooner to not only practice riding but also get it set up to be my mobile blogging station!
….I wonder if they do external mobile phone signal boosters?
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