So, I took the plunge and got a T-Mobile GI phone with Googles Android operating system. I really like it – I am a big Google tools user, so it integrates well with what I am already doing day-to-day. I expected PDA functionality and the maps seems cool, but I hadn’t planned on some of the strange and wonderful little uses developers have found for it.
1. Bubble Level
I actually had a change to use this nifty little app while hanging a whiteboard in my office. The level automatically switches orientation with the phone, even becoming a bull’s eye level when you lay the phone flat. The app can even be calibrated against a “real” level (maybe I should have done that before hanging the whiteboard?)
2. Flash Light
I have used my previous cellphone for a light numerous times, but this is way cooler. This app provides a ful range of colors ( a red light is handy when you don’t want to be your night vision to be effected ) and a range of strobe effects.
3. Compass
With GPS and Google Maps are your finger tips, a compass seem passé, but it has actually come in handy a couple time – once to find the north wall on a building and once to take a better guess at where sunset would happen that day.
4. Tune a Guitar 
This was the first app where I had a need, my son’s guitar tuner was missing, and I figured figured my G1 might be capable doing the job so someone must have written it. Sure enough, a few moments at the Android Market and this gem was downloading.
It did it’s job for my son’s guitar, than doubled as the judge for a game of “How Off Key Can Dad Sing?”
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