From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics

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Cell phone options and essential apps

Cell phone options and essential apps

From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics

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Cell phone options and essential apps

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Okay, let's talk about cell and data in a foreign country. Now there are smart ways to do this and there are very stupid ways to do this, and the stupidest way to do it is just to take your phone and think, well how much can it possibly cost? When you land in, in a new country, say England for instance, first thing you'll do is get a text from your provider in the United States that says, welcome to England. Your data will cost, and I'm not kidding, $20 a megabyte and that's insane. I mean you just can't use a phone when data's $20 a megabyte, but you need your phone when you're in another country especially as a photographer. You've got Google Maps, you've got social media, you can Skype back to your family for like $0.02 a minute. Data, you've got in general, the internet and it's a really critical thing to have your phone. Especially if you're used to it when you're in country. So, there are some smart ways to do this. See now, that's the dumb way, just using your phone. What I…

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