ideal accessory for longer hikes

We love to hike in our spare time, on the weekends in the area and often on vacation in the Alps. Initially maps and hiking guides were our constant companion, for a few years but these were replaced by GPS devices. Until last year, we were with a Garmin Oregon 400 go. The disadvantage of Oregon is the poor readability of the display, the extortionate prices for the maps and the need of a PC / MAC if you want to transfer routes from or on `Oregon. Unfortunately there was for the iPhone until recently no reasonable App`s for hiking. Meanwhile this has improved, we now use ape @ map and komoot. Both App`s can see the maps offline store on the iPhone with which the iPhone can be used easily for walking even with poor network coverage or abroad. I would recommend komoot because you completely without a PC makes do here (thanks to the very nice web interface) and for almost 30 EUR the cards can (partially in better quality than Garmin!) Enable for all of Europe.

When walking with the iPhone there are two problems: the first is the battery life and the second is wet. Keep dry can the iPhone with various cases protect very well and for the battery life there are luckily this Mophie. I've let this Mophie already in February send directly from the USA, as it was available at the time not yet on Amazon. The Mophie consists of 2 parts and fits perfectly to the iPhone 5. After plugging there is no play or wobble, who has something asserts probably caught not the original but a cheap copy. The Mophie is fairly flat, so that the iPhone 5 still looks very elegant with the Mophie. Volume, on / off and the cameras are exempted and so easily available. With the Mophie doubles the battery capacity of the iPhone and therefore sufficient even for longer day trips. Warn the charge status of the Mophie 4 LED on the back and it can be switched off to / via slide switch. The thing about the switch has the advantage that you only need the Mophie switch when the iPhone battery is exhausted (you should have already brought half of the Tour behind him, otherwise it will almost !!).

For charging you can leave your iPhone in the Mophie, so you need so even the mini-USB cable. Since I use the Mophie only for hiking, it is quite often connected and disconnected with the iPhone. there have to date (4 months use) still showed no signs of wear. The Mophie still looks like on the first day, the contacts function smoothly and the battery power has not waned.

For the intended purpose of me: Hiking with the iPhone, it's just perfect and a very strong buy recommendation.