Reading Festival App

[mylaroomoo]

Hi guys,

What did you think of the Reading Festival app?

[donjon]

what do u mean i am not getting your point

Edited October 10, 2011 by donjon

[mylaroomoo]

What do you think of the features, usability etc

[kevinboyle82]

No way I'll be bringing my smart phone to a festival. Got a £5 old Nokia on eBay a few years back. Battery lasts all weekend too

The information in the app is readily available elsewhere anyway.

[Mega Ross]

I downloaded it last year because it was free.

Quite aside from being useless (ie having a clashfinder) unless you bought a programme to unlock the features. If you bring a smartphone to a festival you're insane.

Sorry but you don't need to extra functionality of a smartphone at a music festival, if you spend the entire time on facebook or playing temple run why even bother going?, the battery dies quick, they're expensive, fragile, insurance excess is high and in the majority of cases the battery is not interchangable. The people I know who bring smartphones turn them off most of the time, completely defeating the point of having it on you.

Bring any old shitty phone and a couple of spare batteries, I found a motorola razr in the drawer, 2 spare batteries for a fiver off the market stall. On for the entire 5 days with no problems and indestructable.

Plus if i lose it I won't care in the slightest it won't be "shit I've got to sort this out now, oh, expensive insurance excess, no beer money" ruining my festival, it'll be "lol, I could have quite happily smashed it with a hammer, just go and get a new sim card when i get back or something, beer and bands!"

Edited March 17, 2012 by Mega Ross

[Avens]

^ This.

I haven't been to Reading since 2008, the years of the pre-smartphone. Can't wait to see all the kids with iPhones aloft in the crowd, Hipstamatic on, before some massive hairy drunk guy crashes along and the iPhone is lost forever in the pit...

I'm leaving my iPhone at home and taking a few disposable cameras. That way I won't have to use an app to create the effect of a disposable camera on the photos I take with my £400 insurance liability!

[Eager_Eyes]

I took an old blackberry last year, I downloaded the nme app on the train on the way to Reading, I set up the bands as appointments in my diary which kind of worked like a clash finder and was nice. I didn't get the official app as it wasn't supported for my old phone.

Have to say though that when I got there I was too busy seeing bands to actually look at the nme app once the whole wkend. In fact the only time I used the phone was I split with my mates to organise a time/place to meet up again via text. If I had something like a nice shiney new iPhone there is no way I'd take it with me to Reading.