Do you take your cell phone in the park & where do you keep it?

[Bugz]

I have a cheap flip phone and i keep it in my pocket and if i did lose it not a biggy ,prepay a real cheapo!

 

[ScarletBegonias]

I recently started taking a lightweight drawstring back pack to the parks and it has been great. I usually load it with my phone, extra baggies for water rides or monsoon rains, case for glasses or sun glasses, protein bars, wet wipes and a small sunscreen. I cant stand walking around the parks with a wallet, phone and car key in my pockets. Plus I also, tend to lose money out of my pockets if if I am constantly reaching to get my phone. It also allows me to carry items for my kids when I dont trust they wont lose them.

Did you take this bag on rides with you?

 

[Dwarful]

I always wonder about this. What the heck are people doing on their phones where they need to stop and charge them in the middle of the day? It's 4:30 right now and I'm at 80% battery remaining. I rarely go to bed with less than 50%, and I'm on my phone WAY less when I'm at WDW than I am on a normal day.

They are living their lives through their phones. Seriously we just went to WDW with the band from 2/25 - 3/2 and I was run into more times by actual bodies than strollers or EVC's combined. Actually, I was only hit by people walking aimlessly without looking, never hit by a stroller or evc. Then people didn't even say excuse me. So many people were walking with their heads down, texting or playing a game on their phone. They were missing out on the magic of the parks. We were at a sit down dinner and a family of four all had their phones out and playing on them throughout the dinner.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

We were at a sit down dinner and a family of four all had their phones out and playing on them throughout the dinner.

That kills me more than anything, whether it's at WDW or the local Applebee's. Parents and kids playing games at the table, half the time the kid with HEADPHONES on.

 

[Dwarful]

CaptainAmerica, I agree 100%.

 

[HRHPrincessAriel]

That kills me more than anything, whether it's at WDW or the local Applebee's. Parents and kids playing games at the table, half the time the kid with HEADPHONES on.

No. Just no.

 

[Jahona]

That kills me more than anything, whether it's at WDW or the local Applebee's. Parents and kids playing games at the table, half the time the kid with HEADPHONES on.

I'm guilty of reading while waiting for food but when dinner is served everything goes away. The reliance of always being connected to our phones for entertainment is getting a bit ridiculous.

 

[Tinkerbella16]

I do bring my phone with me and keep it in my small purse that I wear the whole trip. I have to have my phone because my iphone takes better pictures than my actual camera, so I take the majority of my pictures with my phone. What bugs me the most is seeing so many families staring DOWN at a restaurant, instead of looking and talking to eachother. Sadly this is the world we live in today because of social media. Meals are a great way to wind down and reflect on the day at dinner or talk about the excitement that is ahead at breakfast. I cannot tell you how many times while walking through the parks, someone got ran into by someone on their phone just looking down.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Read through all the posts since I was on last..

I think what i'll probably do, is take some sort of small lightweight cross body back for my phone and leave it at that. Since we plan on doing the Memory maker, my cellphone should suffice for everything else! I will have to bring some ziplocs to keep it from getting wet.

I usually go to a gift shop before Splash Mountain and ask for a plastic bag and stick my entire purse/cinch bag in there. They're more than willing to give them to you, and none of your stuff gets wet.

For the pool, I leave it in a ziplock bag so that wet hands can't ruin my phone

 

[Sage of Time]

We interesting debate of do you take your phone with you to Phone vs Camera.

Anyways last time I took my phone with me into the parks and kept it in my front pocket. I never had an issue of loosing it on any of the rides. I have a Galaxy S5. the water resistance on the phone was a great feature when your walking around in the middle of a random Florida shower. I ditched my main camera in favor of the phone in order to save weight. Dark rides and night shots I miss the versatility of my DSLR as it performed better in low light. During daytime shots the GS5 handled great capturing fairly good exposed shots with good detail or so I thought. After I got home and processed the images I noticed a huge difference between my decade old Nikon D100 and my Galaxy S5. The S5 captured a much higher resolution but had issues with grain even at low ISO settings and in general had a bit less sharpness to the image. Granted the sharpness is probably due to better optics on the DSLR vs a phone.

At the end of the day I loved the versatility of my phone and being able to ditch the weight of the bulky DSLR, but missed the advanced camera features and settings with my DSLR.

For my trip back this year for camera usage I'm debating of going the phone route again or taking my newer D610. I'll always carry my phone. Stuck in a 60 min line makes the phone come in handy at times. I also carry a 12,000 mAh battery backup, in my bag, with iPhone and USB cables to charge my phone or other peoples phones around me if they need it.



As a photographer this makes me die somewhat inside.

Thanks for making me feel bad about my photography.

 

[bebert]

Did you take this bag on rides with you?

Yes it fits easily in the netting on any of the "coaster" rides and I just put it on my lap or the floor of other rides.

 

[Otterhead]

So many people were walking with their heads down, texting or playing a game on their phone. They were missing out on the magic of the parks.

I've been to WDW several times in the last few years with various friends and relatives, and of those, it's only two people: the nephew (age 15) who never stops texting 24/7, and a friend who's absolutely constantly staring at his phone. The nephew, well, he's young, and puts the phone away if we ask. The friend... we don't travel with anymore, really.

 

[SyracuseDisneyFan]

When I went last May, I actually placed my phone in a locker at Animal Kingdom when we went on the Kali River Rapids.

 

[Jahona]

Thanks for making me feel bad about my photography.

It's not you it's me. It's the environment I work in and the type of images and photographs that I see on a daily basis. It lends me to a bias on the usage of "professional". Your images, taken on your phone, may be amazing. From my viewpoint no phone can deliver professional images.

 

[MissingDisney]

I recently started taking a lightweight drawstring back pack to the parks and it has been great. I usually load it with my phone, extra baggies for water rides or monsoon rains, case for glasses or sun glasses, protein bars, wet wipes and a small sunscreen. I cant stand walking around the parks with a wallet, phone and car key in my pockets. Plus I also, tend to lose money out of my pockets if if I am constantly reaching to get my phone. It also allows me to carry items for my kids when I dont trust they wont lose them.

We do the same thing. I carry a small hipster and DH carries the string pack with the extras. With kids, there's just some stuff you have to have!

 

[MissingDisney]

Thanks for making me feel bad about my photography.

No one can make you feel a certain way unless you let them.

 

[dreamfinder]

I usually go to a gift shop before Splash Mountain and ask for a plastic bag and stick my entire purse/cinch bag in there. They're more than willing to give them to you, and none of your stuff gets wet.

For the pool, I leave it in a ziplock bag so that wet hands can't ruin my phone

Be careful. I have had the colors on the Disney plastic bags run before when they have gotten wet. Not sure why, they are normally fine, but it can happen.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Be careful. I have had the colors on the Disney plastic bags run before when they have gotten wet. Not sure why, they are normally fine, but it can happen.

They give out clear bags a lot now. But I've never had it damage a bag.

 

[BJones82]

It's not you it's me. It's the environment I work in and the type of images and photographs that I see on a daily basis. It lends me to a bias on the usage of "professional". Your images, taken on your phone, may be amazing. From my viewpoint no phone can deliver professional images.

It's all about processing...

http://thattree.net/shop/proddetail.php?prod=TT_BOOK

That entire book is taken with an iPhone, as I stated earlier an entire episode of Modern family is done with mobile devices. Movies are different I agree, and DSLRs can produce amazing pictures as well, just 99% of the people wont notice the differences you will lol

 

[JohnD]

I take my cell phone with me. I have the belt clip kind. At WDW, I prefer the type that are a leather holder. I currently have an Otterbox case and it uses the phone clip -- it clips to the belt but also have to clip your phone to it. I'm always fiddling with it for it clip in. One miss and the phone falls to the floor. I'll need to get a leather holder clip before my next trip.

I also wear a light backback and when I go on rollercoasters, I remove the phone from the belt clip and zip it inside a pocket in the backback. The backback goes underneath my legs when I ride coasters.