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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching App for the Droid

I am kinda sneaking in here to ask a question. I am a Verizon fan and would be using an iphone if it was supported by Verizon. Will someone help me with what I don't know and tell me if I have any viable options?





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From: Scott Wood <>
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Sent: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 7:31 pm
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching App for the Droid









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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