Over the years I have taken electronics into the field – mostly laptop and phone. As with most things in life there are advantages and disadvantages. Advantages include getting office work done during the more boring times on stand in order to have fewer emails and text messages requiring response upon returning from the field, as well as, being able to text a hunting partner after hearing a shot to see if they have "brown on the ground"? The major disadvantage is the distraction they produce from focusing one's attention on the task at hand – HUNTING! I once missed an opportunity to get an easy bow shot at an 8 pointer I had been watching approach me for half an hour when I had forgotten to silence my cell phone and got a call just as he walked within shooting range. Grrrrr. I almost smashed that phone into the tree trying to silence it but I was too late. And I have to remember to put the phone in airplane mode to completely stop receiving communications because of family, friends, or co-workers who know they can reach me and often ignore the fact that one reason I went hunting was to get away from them! Looking down at electronics takes focus way from what's going on around you and backlit screens show up too much during dimly lit hours. So my rule is to put away electronics between daylight and 10 am and between 3 pm and dark which are usually the most active deer times. And I say to myself "Now why was it that I got up at O-dark-thirty, drove for an hour to a hunting spot, walked for 15 minutes in the dark, and then climbed a tree into the starlight?" It wasn't to click and peck on a keyboard. I could do that back at the office.