breachless
Well-known member
There has to be a few people here by now that are rocking a smartphone with the Android OS. As you can probably tell from some of my other posts, in addition to fishing, I tend to be an obsessive tinkerer of all things electronic, and it seems like I learn something cool everytime I talk to another Android user. There are so many great apps out there and strange uses for these phones that you just never know how someone else might be using theirs.
I will start. I have the Motorola Droid 2. I LOVE this thing. The first thing I did when I got it was rooted it so I could run things like Ad Free, and so I could overclock it. After a few months, I now have my Droid 2 with the Liberty ROM installed, safely overclocked to 1.3 GHz with no loss of battery life, and it runs 10x better than my wifes Droid 2 that is still using the stock Moto ROM. If you have the Droid 2 or Droid X, I highly highly highly recommend looking into flashing the Liberty ROM. It's fantastic.
Another thing that you tinboaters would probably love if you don't already have it is the Navionics Lakes app for your region. I have the US North one, and it is actually very useful. I think it came out to like $14 US dollars, and I got more lakemaps than I will ever touch for about half the price of one of those books you buy with a few counties. To top it off, it also integrates with GPS so you can mark hotspots. It's a great app. I have only used it for icefishing so far, but I see this being pretty awesome for open water fishing as well.
Of course, I also LOVE my emulators. For the Droid 2 (and a handful of other Android phones with slide-out keyboards) there is something called the Game Gripper. It looks kind of cheap, but it actually works really well. Its just a piece of molded plastic with buttons that clamps on over your phones physical keyboard that gives you a d-pad and a bunch of buttons. With this, I have every Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, and even PS1 game I could ever want to play ready to go with actual controls. Very cool for wasting time.
So what are you guys using on Android? I am always curious to hear about apps that I haven't heard of but that I need...
I will start. I have the Motorola Droid 2. I LOVE this thing. The first thing I did when I got it was rooted it so I could run things like Ad Free, and so I could overclock it. After a few months, I now have my Droid 2 with the Liberty ROM installed, safely overclocked to 1.3 GHz with no loss of battery life, and it runs 10x better than my wifes Droid 2 that is still using the stock Moto ROM. If you have the Droid 2 or Droid X, I highly highly highly recommend looking into flashing the Liberty ROM. It's fantastic.
Another thing that you tinboaters would probably love if you don't already have it is the Navionics Lakes app for your region. I have the US North one, and it is actually very useful. I think it came out to like $14 US dollars, and I got more lakemaps than I will ever touch for about half the price of one of those books you buy with a few counties. To top it off, it also integrates with GPS so you can mark hotspots. It's a great app. I have only used it for icefishing so far, but I see this being pretty awesome for open water fishing as well.
Of course, I also LOVE my emulators. For the Droid 2 (and a handful of other Android phones with slide-out keyboards) there is something called the Game Gripper. It looks kind of cheap, but it actually works really well. Its just a piece of molded plastic with buttons that clamps on over your phones physical keyboard that gives you a d-pad and a bunch of buttons. With this, I have every Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, and even PS1 game I could ever want to play ready to go with actual controls. Very cool for wasting time.
So what are you guys using on Android? I am always curious to hear about apps that I haven't heard of but that I need...