Hello flight simmers!As a new owner of the Android Froyo powered Tablet I want to make as much of the device as possible. So far I managed to install Adobe Reader X to read the approach plates, but it lacks of index, bookmarks and annotations, so flight plan still have to be on paper. Do You use any other good PDF readers? I does not to have to be a freeware. I will gladly pay if the software will be good enough.It is a sad story, that there are almost no apps for Droid, only FSWidgets moving map which I want to give a try.How about Flight Computers? I have found plenty, the price varies from 1 to 18 bucks. Which would You recommend?Is there anything other serious simmer should install on Android tablet?Any help, clues or WWW links will be much appreciated

I'd be interested as well for my Android powered mobile.I've got a nice little BA one which shows me details of my bookings, allows on-line check-in etc. Possibly it also has an 'on-strike' function too ;-) Couldn't find one for LOT though - who I use in preference to BA whenever possible. I'm a Brit ;-)

Hello flight simmers!As a new owner of the Android Froyo powered Tablet I want to make as much of the device as possible. So far I managed to install Adobe Reader X to read the approach plates, but it lacks of index, bookmarks and annotations, so flight plan still have to be on paper. Do You use any other good PDF readers? I does not to have to be a freeware. I will gladly pay if the software will be good enough.It is a sad story, that there are almost no apps for Droid, only FSWidgets moving map which I want to give a try.How about Flight Computers? I have found plenty, the price varies from 1 to 18 bucks. Which would You recommend?Is there anything other serious simmer should install on Android tablet?Any help, clues or WWW links will be much appreciated

There's a couple of options for you regarding a PDF reader, aside from the Adobe 10.0.0 release, that is. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait for both because they will not be in the Market until Gingerbread (2.3) gets done with the firmware update for the showcase phones (EVO, Epic, DroidX). Your first option will be the Adobe update, which will include all of which you seek except for annotations. For that, in addition to an index, bookmarks, and a lot more, you'll want to keep your eyes open for "PDFull", which will be a payware offering from Adobe. You can read more about that in the official Android forums as the devs have discussed it quite a bit, but last commented that they are waiting for the firmware update before release. According to HTC, that should be fairly soon, perhaps early March.As for GMap, it is a great offering in what I believe is a relatively early stage of it's life. I've talked with the folks at FSWidgets and even wrote a fun little review of the product here. Android 2.3 will provide an even more powerful platform for future updates, and hopefully resolve the issues such as waypoint lines and the "snapback" feature. There's so much that can be implemented, and I fully expect FSWidgets will continue to update the add-on. It works great with X-Plane, FS9, and FSX, and I assume will fit nicely in X-Plane 10 and Flight as well. I've offered a host of suggestions, and I'm certain that the devs already have some great ideas to expand on GMap.There are some great manual and digital flight computers, both freeware and payware. One that I am particularly fond of is called Avilution E6B, which I think runs somewhere in the vicinity of a five dollar bill. It bills itself as the "most powerful flight computer in the Market", which may or may not be true. I haven't tried them all, but it's the best of the seven or eight that I have tried.Here's a few links you might be interested in.......http://androidforums.com/ This is the Android forums. A lot of devs post info about upcoming products in here, and it's run fairly well.http://www.androidapps.com/ Here's a list of apps for Android and iPhone. I don't know how often it is updated, but it has a good search tool.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/318752-gmap-for-android-and-iphone/page__pid__1912500#entry1912500 This is a fun little review I did of GMap. It might be worth a read if you're interested. I think one of the AVSIM reviewers is doing a review of iGMap as well.

First things first for me. I use my DroidX for a broadband connection to the Internet. Without it, I wouldn't be here writing this or surfing the Internet as I live in a major metropolitan US city outside of Washington DC and there's no cable access yet to my subdivision. Just satellite. I tried WiFi for my desktop system but it was absolutely horrible. Sometimes it worked great but mostly not. So I got this neat PDANET app for my Droid and now use it to tether a connection to the Internet. It works great but I cannot download large files like I use to with cable (I could but it would take many hours). It has been five months so far without cable but cable has finally been laid to my house. It still needs to be connected and turned on but I see it arriving in the near future. I also use my DroidX for golfing as I have a GolfLogix app which downloads course info and gives me info on how far I have to hit the white thing. I can also get a overhead view of each hole and look over a hill to see what obstructions are on the other side. It is also a scorecard which keeps all my statistics which I can upload to the Internet and compare to previous games. The only problem with this app is the fact you have to turn on WiFi and GPS to use it and the batteries are almost dead by the time you get to the 18th hole. The GPS sucks up battery power like all get out and that's sad as the GPS is one of the neat features of any Android operating phone. Personally, I see no usefulness using it with my FSX program. My hands are already full and there's already too much data I have to be watching on my computer screen to have a safe and uneventful flight. Best regards,Jim

First things first for me. I use my DroidX for a broadband connection to the Internet. Without it, I wouldn't be here writing this or surfing the Internet as I live in a major metropolitan US city outside of Washington DC and there's no cable access yet to my subdivision. Just satellite. I tried WiFi for my desktop system but it was absolutely horrible. Sometimes it worked great but mostly not. So I got this neat PDANET app for my Droid and now use it to tether a connection to the Internet. It works great but I cannot download large files like I use to with cable (I could but it would take many hours). It has been five months so far without cable but cable has finally been laid to my house. It still needs to be connected and turned on but I see it arriving in the near future. I also use my DroidX for golfing as I have a GolfLogix app which downloads course info and gives me info on how far I have to hit the white thing. I can also get a overhead view of each hole and look over a hill to see what obstructions are on the other side. It is also a scorecard which keeps all my statistics which I can upload to the Internet and compare to previous games. The only problem with this app is the fact you have to turn on WiFi and GPS to use it and the batteries are almost dead by the time you get to the 18th hole. The GPS sucks up battery power like all get out and that's sad as the GPS is one of the neat features of any Android operating phone. Personally, I see no usefulness using it with my FSX program. My hands are already full and there's already too much data I have to be watching on my computer screen to have a safe and uneventful flight. Best regards,Jim

If you want to improve your battery life, you might want to look into the Innocell 3500mAh. I got replacements for my Droid X, EVO, iPhone, and Epic, and I'd say my useful battery life under heavy operating conditions easily doubled. The biggest drainer I know of is the HTC EVO with 4G and GPS turned on while using a GPS navigation app and having multiple apps running in the background. For example, I will turn on the 4G, GPS, Nav app, Sirius/XM, and maybe run something like Vlingo for voice command and have a place search app running all at the same time. With my replacement battery I probably added about two hours of life running under those conditions.

Thanks Jeremy for a thorough response. Of course I already read the review. Good work.Keep the blue side up guys and hope there will be more and more for mobile devices.