[AccessD] Verizon Droid 2 for the wife

 > I've started playing around with writing my own apps. That, to me is the ticket! ;)  Android has 
a great dev site, with great tutorials:

I do need more to keep me occupied!  ;)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 9/14/2010 3:19 PM, David McAfee wrote:
> They are great phones. I bought hte Droid (1) when it first came out.
>
> I bought my son the HTC Droid Eris for Xmas.
>
> We can play games against each other (such as the Raging Thunder) over
> the our home network or via the web.
>
> He can transfer files to me via bluetooth .
>
> I, like you, wanted to unlock my phone and do all the stuff that the
> Verizon doesnt want me to, but I've decided for now to leave it as is
> while it is under warranty.
>
> I've started playing around with writing my own apps. That, to me is
> the ticket! ;)
> Android has a great dev site, with great tutorials:
>
> http://developer.android.com/index.html
>
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> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:12 PM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>  wrote:
>> 1) I shall certainly try that first
>> 2) Well... if I get the app from the marketplace, how do I guarantee that it won't have a virus?
>> 3) Native Google maps and the like are updated and made better (we hope).  I would prefer to use
>> that than the phone specific version which may or may not ever be updated.
>>
>> This is all new to me, but kinda exciting.
>>
>> 4) Tethering.  Built in to the Droid OS by Google, removed from the phone by Verizon so that they
>> can sell it back to me for a not insignificant sum every month.  I think not!  I will not use it
>> often, but when I do I will not pay for it every month or call to turn it on / off etc.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com