Why a cellphone can’t replace a walkie-talkie during road trip

Whether outdoors hiking, biking or driving, lots of people will ask, "We all have a mobile phone now, why do we still need a walkie-talkie?” in fact, we do need a walkie-talkie and it can’t be replaced by the cellphone mostly because of the consideration of traveling safety. If you have been to any road trip before, you might understand that the driving speed on the road is very fast at most of the time so you can talk to your teammates which road to drive anytime, but if you call them through some social network apps, the time is passing and some of them might pass that crossing already. Besides, there will be a situation like a car team are extremely huge made up by tens of hundreds of cars, then calling or chatting through cellphone will be too troublesome.

the benefits of using a walkie talkie:

1.Convenience

So easy to use, no need to find the number or type anything which is a good point to traffic safety. More than that, it achieves the talking mode between one person and many other persons with each other.

2. Fast

The information dissemination to facilitate command and dispatch is so rapidly within the organization which will be beneficial for the team closely linked.

3. Economic

There is no intercom call charges or data charges by using walkie-talkie especially for those who do internal calls frequently so that they can reduce costs and save money. And most of the walkie-talkie can work for a long time so you don’t need to worry about the battery problems.

4. Free

You can talk without network support so no matter where you are even in the remote mountainous area, no need to worry about the signal issue and talk whenever wherever you want.

5. Secure

Compared with mobile phones, walkie-talkies do not rely on third-party equipment such as base stations so they can avoid damages caused by not communicating especially in the military where mobile phones can basically do nothing. So if there is any emergency situation, there is still a workable connect to the outside world. For example, if you’re in a remote high mountain where seldom people lives there and you got hurt and stuck in there. You probably can’t find any signal for your cellphone but if you have a walkie-talkie, I believe if someone accidentally received your signal they will give you a help.

OK, after talking so much, let me introduce you what brand you should purchase - the Baofeng UV 5r walkie-talkie which is very popular among the professional.