The Motorola Droid is one of the best if not the best phones that Verizon has to offer. It performs unlike anything they have had to date, and the 2.1 upgrade with Flash 10.1 sometime in the future it promises to be an even better phone.
Applications can greatly enhance or frustrate the user, and with all the selections on the Android Market it is easy to lose sight of what is good. The Droid reminds me of my Mac in many ways, it installs and uninstalls applications very easily. Be aware that some applications leave folders on your phone that are not erased when they are uninstalled, and just like with your computer don’t install what you don’t need.
Here are some of the most reliable applications I use as a Web Developer.
- Astro File Manager by Metago: Gives the user great access to files on the phone that might otherwise be hard to find.
- WordPress by Automatic, Inc: You can add new, edit, and remove pages or posts with this app.
- Text Edit by Paul Mach: Great text editor with the ability to save in a variety of extensions.
- View Web Source by James O’Brien: Does just what it says, copy and paste the code into text edit if you want to edit.
- Advanced Task Killer Full by ReChild: Keeps your phone from being bogged down by apps running in the background.
- Evernote by Evernote Corp: Great app for getting organized on projects with your clients.
- AndFTP by LYESOFT: This little FTP client is amazing.
- PdaNet by June Fabrics Technology Inc.: Use your phone as a modem for your computer.
- Time Catcher by Intuit Labs: Brought to us buy QuickBooks and tracks your time on calls, working, and will export the data.
- Photoshop.com Mobile by Adobe Systems: Minified photo editor with some common functions.
These applications are not in any kind of order so don’t put in stock in the layout. They all work well and do what they say they do.
I have found the stock browser to work very well within the WordPress admin panel. There have been several times that I have launched complete WordPress websites right from my phone, setting up a database created on a localhost, permalinks, home page, privacy, activating plug ins, and upgrading WordPress.
If you use the Droid for Web Development, it will impress you.
