As noted above, you don't speak the language and both your foreign translation app and dictionary are in your now gone phone.
then keep the meter running until you get a new phone
That was funny. Thanks for that one.
If you're that totally helpless in a foreign country without your phone, you probably should go with a friend or local.
It's not the person who is helpless. It's being forced to rely on a single point of failure (the phone) that makes people helpless.
Also, there are literally millions solo travelers in the world. Telling someone they cannot travel unaccompanied makes no sense. The whole point of the map apps, the translation apps, the recommendation apps, etc... is to allow people to accomplish things without others.
Sorry, do you travel? At the end of the day, the phone isn't a single point of failure because the fail safe is just talking to people (I.e, the single point of failure is you, the traveler)
Your scenario is contrived. Imagine a mystical time before phones - maybe it was your pocket translation dictionary that fell down the grate? You're out of luck in much the same way - unless you just go back inside and talk to the restaurant and have them send a cab, or call the hotel, or find someone on the street to help you out.
Yes. 27 countries so far. And I traveled to the ends of the earth in a time before cell phones even existed.
Imagine a mystical time before phones - maybe it was your pocket translation dictionary that fell down the grate? You're out of luck in much the same way - unless you just go back inside and talk to the restaurant and have them send a cab, or call the hotel, or find someone on the street to help you out.
If my pocket translator fell down the grate, I'd still be able to hail a cab, point to a location on my paper map, and pay with cash. I've done it in Thailand, Japan, and Turkey. Probably other places I don't remember.
The point made repeatedly upstream is that the phone is a single point of failure, and eliminating the cash option in favor of a smartphone is a seriously bad idea.
As noted above, you don't speak the language and both your foreign translation app and dictionary are in your now gone phone.
then keep the meter running until you get a new phone
That was funny. Thanks for that one.
If you're that totally helpless in a foreign country without your phone, you probably should go with a friend or local.
It's not the person who is helpless. It's being forced to rely on a single point of failure (the phone) that makes people helpless.
Also, there are literally millions solo travelers in the world. Telling someone they cannot travel unaccompanied makes no sense. The whole point of the map apps, the translation apps, the recommendation apps, etc... is to allow people to accomplish things without others.