I still love my Droid. For Christmas I received a car dock. And I was amazed to discover that the phone knew when it was in the car dock. This happened despite the lack of any discernable electronics in the dock itself. But as soon as I drop it in there it brings up the car navigation screen and puts a different icon in the status bar signifying that it is in a car dock.
The issue that I discovered is that the phone is not automatically in speakerphone mode while it is in the dock. That's weird right? How could I have it near my ear while it is in the dock? So if I could make a request of the Verizon gods, please make a change so that when car dock mode is on, speaker is on by default.
That covers the snafu part. The good part was that the voice recognition is awesome. I hit a button to call contacts and then I said my Dad's name and blamo, there is my Dad on the phone. I had to hit the button to put him on speaker, but still...
With the car dock, the navigation is really convenient. Now, I have it running all the time with the GPS enabled and turned on the traffic layer in Google maps and I actually avoided some bad traffic on my way home last night.
Finally, I linked to Tech Broiler with the promise of more stupid droid trick volumes. He has another week but he will be dumped soon if he doesn't get more 'stupid'.
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