Electronic Equipment on Field (ASA)

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by Paws7

I use an iPod Touch with the iScore app (great program for under $5). What I have found is while it is pretty easy to use, it does have it problems (glare) and in a fast moving game to be using it on the field is too consuming.

I'd like to know if any of you have seen this "Clicker" app for iPod/iPhone?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ump-c...349703143?mt=8

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Even if I had this app, I would not want to put it on a phone that has a base cost in the hundreds of dollars while I'm on the field.

[BretMan]

Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

Even if I had this app, I would not want to put it on a phone that has a base cost in the hundreds of dollars while I'm on the field.

Same with the fantastic countdown timer application that came standard on my iPod Touch. It's simple to use, has a nice loud buzzer and would be perfect for using in timed games- if I didn't have to expose my shiny new iPod to dirt, sweat or a possible stray pitch!

[Dakota]

Taking the rule and RS as written, the following are prohibited:

• cell phones
• head phones or ear phone
• other wireless communications devices (blue tooth and wifi are communications technologies, so devices with this technology are prohibited)
• other audio or video equipment

The only electronic device allowed is an electronic scorebook. It does not say that a communications devices with a scorebook app is legal. It is still a communications device, and hence illegal.

This means that smartphones (iPhone, Driod, Blackberry, etc.) are prohibited because they are communications devices, regardless of what apps are on the device.

I'm not sure you can buy electronic scorebooks that are not also communications devices, but that would seem to be all that is legal.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Taking the rule and RS as written, the following are prohibited:

• cell phones
• head phones or ear phone
• other wireless communications devices (blue tooth and wifi are communications technologies, so devices with this technology are prohibited)
• other audio or video equipment

The only electronic device allowed is an electronic scorebook. It does not say that a communications devices with a scorebook app is legal. It is still a communications device, and hence illegal.

This means that smartphones (iPhone, Driod, Blackberry, etc.) are prohibited because they are communications devices, regardless of what apps are on the device.

I'm not sure you can buy electronic scorebooks that are not also communications devices, but that would seem to be all that is legal.

You beat me to it. A phone or camera is still a phone or a camera. The fact that it has some non-approved attachment means it cannot be legal unless on the "Approved Electonic Equipment List" that you can try to find on the ASA web site.