@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:While it fits in your pocket, your phone does you no good for running trains when it's in your pocket.
It also does you no good for doing so while you're on it during a phone call. (Don't tell me that the answer's simple here and it's to just use the speakerphone. It's not that easy to multitask when trying to concentrate on two important things at the same time. Something's going to cross tracks, collide, or go out of control.)
Mike
Do you really need your fingers on the buttons like a nervous wreck the entire time?!? There were times back in the old remote days with DCS remote, I had the automatic shutdown set to 30 minutes. Guess what I didn't push any buttons in that stretch of time and my remote was turned off when I did want to use it. And yes, I know that is an adjustable setting and just like screen timeouts on phones, that is also adjustable.
I have dedicated devices for running my trains, you couldn't call those phones if you wanted to. However, I have taken speakerphone calls on my active phone and run the DCS app at the same time. So yes, you can take a call and run trains at the same time, I've done it, and it's not that hard. Modern smartphones can multitask. Most of the time, my phone isn't even in the same room when I run trains. I want to run trains, not talk on the phone.
