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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>
> Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan
> ----------
> Jim Scotti
> Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ 85721 USA http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/
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