I think of the Motorola Droid as an “always on portable computer with G3, WiFi, GPS, Blutetooth, audio in/out, microSD, compass, accelerometer, keyboard and a reasonable size touch screen.” Oh, and you can make phone call with it too.

The open source dev tools for Linux/Windows/Mac integrate with eclipse and includes the can’t-say-Java-but-that-is-what-it-is compiler & runtime. Nice desktop phone emulator for debugging and on the phone there is a reasonable USB-based debugging tool. It was straight forward to compile some of the sample projects and put it on my phone.

Useful, go get:

• Advanced Task Killer Free — very simple way to kill of apps that are left hanging around
• AppManager — nice way to manage your apps includes info on space used and can uninstall apps
• Barcode Scanner — used by other scanning apps
• Battery Graph — track battery level
• Book Mobile — scan ISBN from a book and have it added to your google book list. Sometimes it can’t add to the list on google.
• Color Blindness Test — I’m red/green deficient
• ConnectBot — ssh client
• Divide and Conquer! — fun game
• DroidLight — handy flashlight replacement, turns on camera flash
• Foursquare — silly GPS location ‘game’
• GDocs Notepad with Sync — little note taker that stores up on google docs
• GDocs — not written by Google, but lets you get to your google docs
• GeoBeagle — Excellent geocaching app, highly recommended,
• Goggles — Take a picture of something and google will try to identify it, works best with books, logos, etc. By Google.
• Google Sky Map — Very cool reality enhancement. Go out at night and hold the droid up to the sky to see names and info about stars, planets, etc. By Google.
• Hypnotic Spiral — silly toy
• Maps (Google) — Excellent interface. By Google.
• Moon Phases — handy
• My Tracks — Notes GPS tracks and uploads to both Google Docs and Google Maps, very handy for tramping around in the woods
• NetCounter — track network traffic on 3G network vs WiFi network
• Network Discovery — Sort of a nmap port to the android that lets you find out what else is on your network. Integrates with ConnectBot to ssh to servers.
• Oblique Strategies — a Classic.
• Places Directory (Google) — Show lists of what is nearby you. By Google.
• Ringdroid — create ringtones from any mp3
• Sand Blaster — physics simulation game similar to Powder
• Seesmic — Nice twitter client
• Show Accelerometer — toy to show off the accelerometer
• Spark — toy
• The Weather Channel — nice weather app with widget interface too.
• ThinkFree Mobile
• tickr — surprising handy Flickr slideshow app that needs a bit more polish
• Voice Recorder — Excellent free voice recorder, integrates into email to send or upload audio recordings
• Waze — fun mapping/directions tool that also has a game element (munch dots on untraveled roads)
• WiFi OnOff — widget to turn on/off the Wifi from the homepage

Handy, will likely stay on the phone

• androidVNC — VNC to linux boxes. Servicable, but tricky connecting to a 2 monitor system.
• AK Notepad
• Banshee Remote — requires downloading and running a little python server on the Linux box running Banshee. Could be handy, but may not fit how I listen to music.
• Bluetooth File Transfer
• Documents To Go
• Dolphin Browser
• Evernote
• Favorite Recipes
• iSilo — I use this on my palm pilot, may be useful.
• NPR News
• Photoshop.com Mobile
• Pandora
• Qik
• SAT Vocabulary

Not fully evaluated

• Aldiko
• Amazed
• Androbex
• Android Network RSS
• Beelicious
• CompassNavi
• Contact Owner
• Craigslist
• Flickr Photo Frame
• Gmote
• GPS Status
• Hyperspace LITE
• Layar
• Listen
• MeteorLiteWVGA
• NewRob
• On Air
• OpenLoopz for Android
• Opera Mini
• Owner
• PalmBookReader
• Plasma Puddle
• RaySpy
• Reader
• ScoreNinja
• Shot
• Simple GPS
• Slacker
• SmartTraining
• SnapPhoto
• StreamFurious
• SwiftTweets
• SystemMonitor
• Trap!
• Ustream Broadcaster
• Ustream Viewer Beta
• Where