Top Four Best Android Apps for Motorola Droid

On an Android phone, unlike the closed off iPhone, you can have the Google Voice App take over all calls -- even international ones! By taking over the device, any call that I make through the phone emulates my Google Voice number. No inconvenient Google Voice mobile website for me [on an iPhone], now I just make a phone call. The application transcribes my voicemails and allows for a visual form too. This visual system saves me yet another $2.99 -- Verizon charges that for visual mail access.

Pandora

This is nothing new, and it's still the ultimate personalized radio. Pandora delivers a fantastic application and service to Android and iPhone. The experience is hindered by a basic ad on the bottom of the application, but it's nothing compared to the ads and messages that Pandora places on its website. Pandora let's you create personalized stations with a thumbs up/down voting system. It allows you to bookmark songs and artists for later viewing. The application also supports the adding and removal of new "stations" that can be based off of artist, song, album, etc.

DoggCatcher

There is no native application to download, subscribe, and listen to your latest podcasts. DoggCatcher is the perfect accoutrement to your powerful device. It comes at a price though, $6.99, which makes it one of the most expensive apps in the Market. In fact, it's the only app that requires a purchase on this list. But it's still well worth it and powerful. DoggCatcher lets you select and subscribe to your favorite podcasts, and unlike the iPhone (AT&T), you can download as large a file as you'd like. While burning through battery, it can download that 131 MB episode of Diggnation for immediate viewing.

And if you don't feel like burning through battery life, you can choose to have the device only download new episodes on Wi-Fi and/or while being plugged into power. Unlike Pandora, DoggCatcher responds to disconnects from headphones and Bluetooth, pausing where you are.

i Music

The internet has a number of ways to illegally download music. LimeWire and Kazaa are things of the past. So many people put music straight onto their websites, and it's just a matter of finding the songs. i Music is a powerful music search app that finds exactly what you're looking for.

Looking for a Beatles song or something by Bob Dylan? Search on i Music and you'll find the song. After finding the song you want, you can legally listen to the song or you can illegally download it to your Droid. This is a gray area of copyright laws, but there's no doubt that downloading songs for free is still illegal. Whether you just NEED to hear a song once, or want to grab it for free, i Music a prime example of the power of open-source and spits in the face of Apple's closed system.

FxCamera

The Droid camera is finally fixed! But the basic camera application doesn't leave a lot of options for users. That's where FxCamera comes in. Offering basic image additions like the Toy Camera effect makes images look aged and artistically designed. Just look at my Twitter pic. FxCamera doesn't have some of the editing features of PicSay Pro, but it does spruce up the the basic camera.

The application simple, and is relatively quick at launching the camera and processing the picture with its effect. What's missing is the ability to truly take over the camera and by default, launch the app after a picture has been taken.

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