Here’s a thing we haven’t done for a long time, highlighting a new and extremely NICHE app aimed at a very small group of Android users. Our latest niche discovery is Munro Bagging, an app dedicated to listing and tracking the attempts of walkers and climbers to get to the top of all the munros (mountains and the more extreme hills) in Scotland.
It’s been downloaded between 100 and 500 times. It’s therefore pretty niche. Here it is:
Munro Bagging supports GPS location and Ordnance Survey maps for finding your way up some of the wilder peaks, too. Ideal for the outdoorsy, Scottish type.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
tafkawac
/ October 16, 2012This is a brilliant idea. Back in the day I used to do a bit of ‘Munro Bagging’ and this would have been marvellous.
Oh how I wish I still had knees and was 10 years younger!
Gary C
/ October 16, 2012Ha, I tried (and failed) to do my first one yesterday. Failed due to not giving myself enough daylight rather than a lack of leg power.
Alastair Wallace
/ January 6, 2013We climb hills. Bagging is macho language.