[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching App for the Droid

EMa geogypsy at gmail.com
Sat Nov 14 12:40:16 CST 2009


I am looking in to getting the droid. Does anyone have it? Is it any good
for the internet?

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Regan Smith <evilfish at cox.net> wrote:

> 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> <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 - 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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