Droid. Does anybody have one?

[OakLeaf]

12 hours is kind of pushing it for the drives we take to see relatives

Office supply stores and electronics stores carry adapters so you can plug a USB charging cable into a cigarette lighter slot.

Oh, and on our ride yesterday in darkest Fairfield County, Ohio (and not the suburban end of the county), we rode by a SUV with signs on the doors saying "Motorola" "Mobile Phone Testing in Progress." Now, I resisted the temptation to shake him down for his Droid, so I don't know which phones they were testing, but it was interesting to see it being done by the manufacturer, not the service provider.


OT: I wonder if directional sense isn't more innate. I actually attribute my poor directional sense to childhood experience. When I don't know where I am, my first instinct is to panic like a five-year-old trying to protect her two-year-old sister , and that's definitely no help as an adult. Even when I don't panic, I'm not good at parsing out the "big picture" around me. In my favor, I'm really good at reading maps...

[GLC1968]

OT: I wonder if directional sense isn't more innate. I actually attribute my poor directional sense to childhood experience. When I don't know where I am, my first instinct is to panic like a five-year-old trying to protect her two-year-old sister , and that's definitely no help as an adult. Even when I don't panic, I'm not good at parsing out the "big picture" around me. In my favor, I'm really good at reading maps...

I'm the same way. Give me a gander at a map and I'm good to go using only my memory ... but without one? I can get lost in a paper bag. Seriously, I get confused getting off elevators in department stores (where I used to work!) if the displays were changed/moved. I rely on landmarks - innate sense of left/right/north/south does NOT exist for me and never has.

And more on topic - I dont have a Droid, but I'd like to encourage everyone go buy one. Get a Droid from MOT or go get the 3G iphone - both will make me and my company very happy. Thanks!

[Dogmama]

I'm the same way. Give me a gander at a map and I'm good to go using only my memory ... but without one? I can get lost in a paper bag. Seriously, I get confused getting off elevators in department stores (where I used to work!) if the displays were changed/moved. I rely on landmarks - innate sense of left/right/north/south does NOT exist for me and never has.

OMG - that's me!! I'll ALWAYS take the wrong turn off of an elevator. I have zero sense of direction.

I wish the Droid/Garmin/Whatever would work in malls, department stores, etc. Like - "go to Banana Republic, turn left..."