Staying Connected: Droid Style

This post has zero, zilch, nada to do with healing. I mentioned my droid over Twitter yesterday and had a request to blog about it. I decided, what the heck, I can make a cell phone post that is sorta WoW related. Maybe. We’ll see. This one is for you, Kestrel!

I love cell phones. Scratch that. I love the mobile web. I have this overwhelming need to feel connected to the things I enjoy; to feel like I’m not missing something. Maybe it has to do with working second shift while the rest of the world is at home, doing far more interesting things than I am. I have a feeling it has more to do with my mom.

You see, my mom has this need to be able to get in touch with her family at any time, any place. In fact, if she can’t get me on one of my cells, she will call the other. (Yes, I have two cell phones: my personal cell and my work cell. Heck, even work has to be able to get to me ASAP! Moving on…) If that doesn’t work, she might call my husband’s cell. We don’t own a home phone, so that’s out of the question. I think I inherited that need to get in touch with who I want when I want to. Enter the mobile web. With current cell phone technology, the ability to stay connected to what’s going on around me is absolutely fantastic!

I used to have a Blackberry Pearl. I loved that phone, until my then 4 month old puppy got a hold of it and chewed two of the buttons off. Missing two buttons made typing on it rather hard, so as soon as my annual upgrade came around, I was phone shopping! Initially I had planned to get another Blackberry, since I’d enjoyed the other so much. Fate, it would seem, had something else in mind.

While at the store, I noticed the HTC Droid Eris. It was love at first sight. It was sleek. It was smexy. It was web worthy. Above all else though, it had the andoid operating system! At that point in time, the thought of getting a Blackberry went out the window. Here before me was a droid. Android. Google. I love Google. Seriously. I’m the girl who had gmail back when it started and who snatched up a Google Voice number as soon as she heard about it. (If anyone wants a Google Voice invite, by the way, just send me an e-mail.) Sometimes, I feel guilty I don’t use Blogger. At any rate, before too long, I had myself a brand new droid phone. I have to say, I have been very pleased with my choice. I’m not going to write-up a tech review on how awesome this phone is, but if you are interested, you can find some here.

I said I was going to make this WoW related, didn’t I? Well, here’s a list of some droid apps I use to stay connected to WoW (and WoW friends, of course).

Elena’s Apps for Staying Connected

1. HTC Peep – Twitter app that comes with the phone
2. Facebook app
3. Droid Armory – nice little free armory app
4. NewsRob – syncs with Google Reader so I can read my blogs on the run (or during lunch break at work)
5. WpToGo – A nifty little WordPress app
6. Mobile Web – not really an app, but most of my mobile web use is devoted to WoW activities
7. You Tube app – nice for watching boss videos on the fly. Kinda buggy right now though.

Have a Droid, iphone, Blackberry, or other web capable phone? How do you use it to stay connected?

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