I know that this is a little off topic, and has probably been discussed here before, but we used the Iphone geocaching app for the first time today to find and log a cache. No other GPSr with us. We found and logged 3 caches at Water Ranch while doing some IR photography. It worked so well that I suspect that the vast majority of my geocaching will just be with the Iphone. If there is a Droid version that works as well as the Iphone one, it will be a winner.
As for the droid, I was an early adopter of the Iphone, and can't see myself using any other phone unless something truly earth-shattering comes out. I see nothing on the horizon that will be that phone yet, but if I hadn't already jumped into the Iphone world, the droid would be very interesting.
Jim Scotti wrote:
> I got my very first cell phone last Friday morning - a Droid from > Verizon. I haven't taken it out geocaching yet, but I did download two > apps from the Android Market which I intend to try out (OpenGPX and > GCDroid) when I can. The Droid has an app market that you can search > from its home page and there's also a website with lots of apps at >
www.androlib.com - I searched for "geocache" and got 17 hits. Not > sure which ones would work best, but lots of things to try even if > Groundspeak doesn't offer an app for the Android platform. Whichever > one you get, you probably want to get one that will load what it needs > (other than the GPS signal) before going out into the boonies in case > the network is not available.
> Being such a new machine, there are many things to learn about the > Droid and I found a forum at
www.droidforums.net that has been quite > helpful in figuring out the various features and capabilities and > limitations of the Droid.
>
> Jim.
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Jim & Jacquie Godfrey wrote:
>
>> We're Team Vegan from Surprise. We're seriously considering getting >> the new Droid phone from Verizon. Does anyone know if Groundspeak is >> going to be offering a geocaching app for it like they have for the >> iphone? I've looked around at some of the forums but haven't found >> anything about it.
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>> Thanks!
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>
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