My Droid has passed from the shiny new toy stage into the workaday tool category, and it’s holding up pretty well. I found a couple of new tools that have made it considerably easier to live with:
- K9 mail, odd name, great replacement for the standard Android mail client. You can get more items on the page, better control over each mail item, and it’s a lot easier to clean out trash with the batch ops feature. Free from the marketplace.
- Dolphin Browser. While the standard Android browser is pretty good, Dolphin has two features that are addictive: it offers a tabbed interface, something I’ve loved since Firefox was first launched; it allows the pinch and spread zooming capabilities first seen on the iPod and iPhone 0 much easier (and cooler) than the +/- of the standard browser. It also offers custom gestures for opening new tabs, going back and forward, very helpful and a little like using Graffiti, for the old Treo/Palm users among you.
Not much more to report at this time, except that I no longer have iPhone envy. If Verizon introduced the iPhone tomorrow, I would pass, not enough advantage to consider switching.