Golf GPS Apps For Android

OK, so you have a fancy touchscreen Smartphone with the Android operating system (perhaps a Verizon Droid or even a brand new Nexus One from Google), and you want to spice it up with a compatible golf GPS. Maybe you're already familiar with GolfShot, GolfLogix, and some of the other popular golf GPS apps available for the iPhone and BlackBerry Smartphones, and now you're wondering what the choices are for Android. The number of apps in the Android market may be kind of puny compared to the huge number of apps available for the iPhone. But there are Android golf GPS apps available. The following list of five top-notch products is a start.

GolfCard was selected by both CNN and Time magazine as the best iPhone golf app for father's day (2009). Now it's available for Android phones; both Sprint and Verizon have recently featured GolfCard in their new phone ads. It looks promising, and should probably be more popular than it already is. This inexpensive rangefinder has a database of 28,000 courses, a scorecard for multiple players, statistical analysis, and no subscription fees.

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GreenFinder, which is a popular GPS app that also works on Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile phones, can be downloaded and used five times for free. It gives you distances to the front, center, and back of the green, as well as distances to fairway hazards and the distance of your last shot. It costs less than a round of golf and there are no additional fees: you can download all the courses you need and you can even mark your own courses.

Golf GPS Apps For Android

FreeCaddie also works on Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Java enabled phones. The free version displays only the distances to the front, center, and back of greens. If you want the really good stuff like distances to bunkers and hazards, a shot distance function, the ability to map your own points, or statistics and scorekeeping, then you need to upgrade to FreeCaddie Pro.

Pocket Caddy from Satsports has 3D flyovers of the entire course and individual holes, distances to the front, center, and back of the green and other points of interest. It also has shot recording, statistical analysis and and a scorecard. With Pocket Caddy you can get a map of your home course included with purchase, or you can easily map courses yourself using Google Earth.

SkyDroid (which is practically free) has distances to the front, center and back of every green on the course, as well as distances to water hazards, bunkers, and other course features. It also has a satellite map view of every hole. You can track the distance of your last shot, download all the courses you want for no extra cost, and you can even use SkyDroid's Course Mapper to easily map your own courses.

Golf GPS Apps For Android

Motorola Droid X (Xtreme) Android Phone - Specs & Features

Motorola Inc., one of the pioneers who brought out innovative phones worked together with and the company with the largest and most reliable 3G network in the nation, Verizon Wireless, that is to bring out the state-of-the-art creation of Motorola, the Droid X (Xtreme). It's Droid X' time to be the top of the heap in the world of Android phones.

It's a sleek handset which delivers a more browsing capability, more connectivity, personal HD video and enterprise features, all in a 4.3' widescreen device at 854 x 460p resolution. It boasts a fast 1 GHz processor by Texas Instruments running the Android OS. It includes 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities. The handset features an 8 megapixel camera which is capable of 720p HD video capture. It enables you to do even more. Motorola worked with the spirit of commitment to come up with this device bringing the network high level of reliability. It is perfectly designed for mobile phone users to experience enhanced functionalities.

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Specs of the new Motorola Droid X (Xtreme) Phone:
4.3-inch display @ 854×480 pixels 1GHz OMAP processor by Texas Instruments 512MB RAM 8GB storage onboard with 16GBmicroSD card slot included Can be enhanced up to 32GB via microSD Swype keyboard 8MP camera with dual-LED flash capable of HD video capture WiFi 802.11 b/g/n with DLNA 3G Mobile Hotspot Android 2.1 will be updated to Android 2.2 Froyo HDMI port, mini USB slot Adobe Flash Player 10.1Droid X is set to be released only on Verizon on July 15, 2010 priced at 9 with a0 rebate on a 2-year contract. Impressed and excited? Watch out and see it yourselves.

Motorola Droid X (Xtreme) Android Phone - Specs & Features