Droid "X" apps (boating)

[localboy]

I have relunctantly entered the "modern age" and purchased a Droid "X" smart phone running on the Verizon network. I'm wondering if anyone has any cool, useful or necessary marine/boating related apps they can recommend.

Thanks!

[Grumpy]

yup. here's a few.

You can get all the local Navionics charts for about $9.- and the buily-in GPS works fine.

If you also load Google earth you can get your position +/- 1 slip in a marina that doesn't even show on Navionics charts.

Local weather radar.

AIS data (Hard to read and navigate)

Droid Does.

Merv

[colobear]

You'll like it Mark. I would add the "weather bug elite" and "radar now". You can also save as favorites in the browser the same things you can put on your regular computer, i.e. weather and tides, ferry weather, C-Brats, etc. We got a Droid 2 before our recent extended trip and have found it to be a really good purchase.

[JamesTXSD]

I think you'll enjoy that phone, Mark. OK, it's really a small computer that just happens to have a phone in it. A few more apps to consider to the above: the Weather Channel, Compass (in case your GPS app dies ), iMap Weather, Pandora Radio (when you're at anchor), TideApp, Where (to tell you the nearest BBQ, Italian, fuel, etc, etc when you're at the dock), WhatZip (to tell you the zip code you're in when cruising), Voice Search (to pull up just about anything on Google), and Taskiller (to shut down programs you aren't currently using to give more memory to the ones you are). If you play a guitar while toasting the sunset in your cockpit, you might need gStrings (a guitar tuner). Of course, there are other apps that aren't so "critical."

Best wishes,
Jim B.

[localboy]

Thanks all. I'll take a look at a those, once I learn just WTH I'm doing. (I'm more of a kinesthetic learner, so I just started messing w/ it). Pretty amazing, I must admit. This thing has more power than my first 286 did. I just kept telling myself I didn't need one...and I'm still not 100% convinced I really do, but I took the dive anyway. I'm sure I'll learn to appreciate it's handiness, although I don't want to turn into one of those guys who never looks up from the damn thing.

[kenny chaos]

So can these things replace individual gps, chart plotters and all the electronic stuff?

Kenny the newb-

[rogerbum]

Mark,

If you do buy the Navionics program - get the one for BC Canada. It's charts cover everything from the OR coast (about Eureka) to the southern Alaska coast (all the way to Skagway).

[JamesTXSD]