feet posted:I thought MTH announced a while back that they would keep making remotes. I don't own a cell phone let alone smart phone and don't want either. Guess I better start buying spare remotes.
I think after some initial feedback when this topic first surfaced, they stated that they would make "some more" remotes, way back when. Supposedly the "last run" was supposed to be large enough to support demand for quite a while, but we shall see how hard they become to buy in the near future, I guess.
If you have wireless internet at home, you can try a non-phone device like a tablet or iPod Touch. Those suffer from the same issue of being a screen, but don't require you to be shelling out for a smart phone bill each month after the purchase of the hardware (again, assuming you have high speed internet with wi-fi at home - I'm not sure if there may be some way to get the apps on these devices via hard wire if you don't use a wi-fi router - if there is, I don't know how). I think I bought my latest iPod touch (used for things other than controlling my trains) in May of this year for around $190 at a local big box store.
-Dave
