Before Loading Up the Surfboard, Check the Phone

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Rant - Before Loading Up the Surfboard, Check the Phone

The Internet has been good to surfers and other water-sports enthusiasts, who can check a webcam or online surf report before taking a futile trip to the beach.

Smartphones beat a desktop browser, however, because they put the Web in your hands when you have a few hours of free time, a long board on the roof rack and you want to check for waves. And, at least for surfers, the iPhone trumps other smartphones. Take the Surf Watch app ($10), for example. The software isn’t available anywhere on the wider Web, and sadly for BlackBerry and Android users, it’s not available on their mobile platforms.

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rant by duckdive
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saltychump
1 year ago

Surf Watch Review- I didn't go down and get my reserved iPhone 4 so I was feeling flush and bought the 10 dollar Surf Watch app.
The app is nicely done. It's very polished but basically all it does is track 3 buoys and lets you set up alarm triggers for all the buoy data coming in. I think the Stoke Report conditions graph is faster to get a read on current conditions.
Surf Watch's other limitation is that you can't set alarms for recent past data, like how windy was it last night out there?
Also you can only set up 1 alarm per buoy which means you can't target 2 surf spots with the same buoy data. Around here that's a limitation.
Overall it's nice and the UI is excellent but it could do a little more for 10 bucks.

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