GPS Status application on my Droid

This is a great application. With a topo map, you can track yourself anywhere. This application works even outback when you don't have cell service, which i noticed many GPS or map applications stopped working.

WiFi iPad with rooted Droid

On www.droid-life.com, you can follow video instructions to give yourself superuser/administrator access to your Droid.  It is also called root access.  After you do that, you can install Barnacle Tether app on your Droid to make your droid into a wireless hot spot.  Pretty cool.  I use it to make my iPad more mobile.  I could also use it with my MacBook.  There is a less scary app called PDANet that you can connect to your Droid from MacBook to go out on the internet using BlueTooth or the USB cable.  That solution didn't work for the iPad so I took the risk and rooted my Droid.  Basically you replace your factory defaults that are saved on the Droid with Android OS 2.1 with root access.  Then you restore your phone to this version of Android OS instead of your factory defaults.

Droid on Verizon Wireless

Just got a Droid (Motorola) from Verizon Wireless.  It is truly amazing.  I've had PalmOS devices for the past 5+ years and this is on an entirely different level.  You have a really powerful computer in the palm of your hand.  I'll note a few things that I REALLY like:

• Email - I hooked up to my corporate email account on Microsoft Exchange instantly and my emails came into the phone almost instantly.  It has a lot of options in composing, very user friendly and fast.
• Speed - you switch from one app to another very quickly.
• 3G and WiFi - internet access is phenomenal
• Messaging - chat format, haven't figured out how to add more smileys than just a smile but I'll get there
• Camera - amazing 5 megapixel, very clear
• Huge screen - half inch longer than my friend's iPhone
• Keyboard - I do like the on-screen keyboard but I have to type with one finger, my thumbs always get the wrong key, extra slide out keyboard works great
• Maps and GPS - standard it gives you street directions and tracks where you are with satellite imagery, I look forward to what it can do in the mountains with an app for UTM coordinates
• Browser - great on the big screen both orientations, it really looks good with Weightwatcher's mobile website, which I'm already using.  Wish I could figure out how to download flash because a lot of websites are flash driven.  Great resolution and zoom feature helps when website comes up really small.
• Calendar synchronizes with my exchange, which synchronizes with my Entourage, which synchronizes to MobileMe.  I just love it.
• Contacts - I like it.  I need to figure out how to put in a letter so it goes right to a contact and to sort it by last name instead of first.  I like how the contacts start integrating with other applications I download
• Touchscreen - very responsive, almost TOO responsive.  I've called a couple people while on contacts without intending to or typed letters while I'm just thinking of what to type next.  But I'll learn.
• Car Home app - voice commands to navigate, Google Navigate beta works great and turns your phone into a Garmin GPS Unit with turn by turn verbal commands.

I love new technology.  I'm still figuring out notifications.  New text messages and calendar appointments just came up on the screen with the Palm products.  I have to hunt for them when I hear my ringtone on the Droid.