Motorola Droid Apps – Tools & Utilities:

• Astro File Manager on allows you to manage the SD card through your phone
• Linda File Manager enables get an in-depth look at and manage files both on the device and the SD card
• TasKiller lets you close (kill) your running applications in one click, Switch between apps and have unlimited ignored apps in your
• Advanced Task Killer: Droid often leaves the applications running in the background even when you quit them. This can really slow up the systems and also reduce your battery life. Advanced Task Killer (Free download from the Android Market) kills all the background applications with one click and frees up your system.
• Flashlight

Motorola Droid Apps – Locale:

Allows you set your profile based on where you are, using the GPS.

• ConnectBot: ConnectBot is an open-source Secure Shell client.  It can manage simultaneous SSH sessions, create secure tunnels, and copy/paste between other applications. This client allows you to connect to Secure Shell servers that mostly run on UNIX-based servers.
• Remote RDP A Remote Desktop Protocol client can remotely control your PC. Features including: Copy/Paste text between local and remote, attaching you SD Card to remote computer, playing music.
• AndFTP [FTP/SFTP/FTPS client]
• Android-VNC-Viewer [VNC Viewer]
• Gmote [Media Remote for your computer]
• Wheres My Droid [Helps you locate a lost phone]
• SnapIt [OCR, Image to Text tool ]
• Torrent-Fu [Really nice uTorrent/Transmission remote client. Alternatively Transdroid has support for more torrent clients, but it is not as good]
• Barcode reader [Versatile tool for installing apps with QR codes and scanning CD's/movies for use in torrent-fu]
• AndroZip, the Motorola Droid app for zip file management (functionality: delete, copy, move, rename, prop.; Supports: ZIP, RAR, 7Z / 7Zip (max dict 6 MB), TAR/TGZ, BZ2, GZIP) You can open files, attach to gmail..
• Share Your Board [Interesting whiteboard capture utility. Does perspective correction and text enhancement]

Motorola Droid Apps – Social / Communication

• Google Voice: This application integrates nicely with the droid phone. However, it does not integrate that nicely with SMS.
• Meebo IM OR ebuddy [Alternate IM Apps]
• NewsRob: The first Android news reader that has offline capabilities and synchronizes with Google Reader.
• Twidroid: Motorola Droid Application that supports your Twitter account. You can even set an icon to display in the Notification bar to keep you apprised of tweets, replies, and/or direct messages.
• Handcent SMS: It is a Nice SMS App which can do speech-to-text. However the application is a bit slow

• Twidget Lite: This is a widget that gives you quick and easy access to your Twitter account, including showing the latest and greatest tweet on one of your home screens.
• Twitpic: Moto Droid app for posting pics on twitter

Motorola Droid Apps – Multimedia

• Last.fm: Droid application for streaming Music Client
• Meridian Player Evolve OR MixZing Music Player: Advanced Video/Music player; allows you to search lyrics, subtitle, gesture, ID3 edit, rating, extra info etc.
• Midomi: A cool android application that identifies the tune if you hold the phone close to a speaker or even sing or hum the melody.
• Simple Last.fm Scrobbler OR Scrobble Droid: This application tracks the music which you listen to & sends this information to Last.fm. Last.fm then uses this information to make recommendations you or even create a playlist for you.
• DoggCatcher OR Google Listen: The Moto Droid podcasts application
• TunesRemote [iTunes Remote]
• TV.com
• Photoshop.com: Photoshop application on the droid
• LapseDroid: The timelapse software application for the droid
• Ringdroid snips your songs so you can use just the part you want as ringtone OR notification
• Qik
• Pandora
• FxCamera [Camera app with neat filters]
• Video Player, application to watch videos on the Droid

Other Droid apps

• Dolphin Browser [Replacement Browser]
• Astrid [Awesome To-Do List]
• WeatherBug OR The Weather Channel
• FBReader [eBook Reader]
• VirtualSheep for Android
• Google Sky Map
• aDyno: Droid application that allow you to use the phone as a dynamometer and performance timer. Calculate spped, mile times, peak HP and acceleration, power curves, G-Meter and a lot more
• Shopsavvy OR CompareEverywhere : is the price comparison application on the Motorola droid
• SMS popup: Gets your home screen to tell you when you have a text message, email or a voice msg., other than at the very top in that little white box
• Percent Off: a price calculator for application for calculating sale price of items on sale.
• Tip Big: Simplest tip calculator droid application.
• Tip Rate is a rate based tip calculator. This tool suggests a tip amount based on answer to several qualities of service questions.
• Things to Remember application that stores information often used but not often remembered.
• RoadRules Study Guide a study guide application for people studying to become license drivers.
• Immigration Civics Study Guide a study guide Motorola droid application for people studying to become citizens of the United States. This guide covers the New Naturalization Test – Civics Exam.
• Unit Cost application calculates unit price of items bases on size. It can be used to calculate compare items of different size to determine the better deal.
• Size Chart – Christmas Edition application that stores different clothing sizes for the people on your gift list. This app stores shirt, shoe, suit, pants, coat, bra, and dress sizes.

Widgets / Homescreen

• OneWeekCalendar
• Anycut
• Screens
• Quick Settings
• tCalendar

Guitar

• TabDroid Pro
• Robotic Guitarist
• Tuner – gStrings

Games apps on Motorola Droid

• Robo Defense FREE
• Tadoku
• Space Physics Lite
• Nesoid Lite
• GameBoid Lite
• FRG Lite
• Angband [The roguelike]
• Super Mario

To buy the Droid & its accessories, click below:

Motorola Droid Accessories

Motorola Droid

A thanks to Tyler Bishop for framework of this post

Also another big factor which will influence the success of the Droid is the quality of the applications it provides. Motorola Droid Apps would have tough competition from iPhone apps which are undoubtedly excellent.

Motorola Droid Apps - will they be better that iPhone apps?

Lets see what the Moto Droid has in its platter to conquer iPhone apps in a range of categories like: Apps for Cooks, Apps for Keeping Current, Apps for the Great Outdoors, Apps for Music, Apps for Work, Apps for Students, Apps for Moms and Dads, Apps for Working Out, Apps for Going Out, Apps for Managing Money etc.

Comparing Motorola Droid apps with iPhone apps will give a clear idea of the versatility and functionality that there two phones have to offer. At this time all we can hope for it that the Moto Droid has got its market strategies right and are entering with a solid product.

More one Motorola Droids applications later…Let me get hold of the phone first!!

Here is what various websites have to say about Motorola Droid.

inquisitr: says that Official Droid Does website mentioned an Oct 30th start date

I couldn’t find it there.. Here is what the Droid Does Official Website looks like:

Droid Does Official Website

cnpanyu: talks about the count down on phones.verizonwireless.com/motorola/droid & droiddoes.

It is something that I am missing that I can’t see the countdown on the website. Or is the fancy stuff that keeps moving a count down in some other language!

What what ever it is, we can only assume a start date of 30th October. Motorola has created an amazing hype for this phone and everybody seems to be wondering when its gonna hit the market.