[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching App for the Droid

[Regan Smith]

DROID

there are about 10000 applications for it now compared to the 100000 for 
the iphone but give it time

ptpenny at aol.com wrote:
> 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?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Wood <scott at myblueheaven.com>
> To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
> 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 <http://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 
> <http://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/ 
> <http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/%7Ejscotti/> 
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