Hi everyone,

a friend of mine demonstrated his Samsung Galaxy S Android phone to me today. One of the applications is a GPS app which appears to record GPX files. The phone has an SD card slot and he said when you plug the phone into a computer via USB it appears as a USB drive.

My GT-11 is becoming more unreliable and instead of buying a GT-31 I am considering getting one of these phones instead. It would cut down on one gadget in the house.

Has anyone used an Android phone to record their windsurfing sessions? Can anyone see the negatives of using one or whether its not possible to record tracks? From my limited knowledge the application shown recorded GPX files which are not as accurate as the SBN doppler data. Another negative is using a fairly expensive gadget in a reasonably hostile environment with possible longer term reliability issues.

Its a sweet phone and you don't have to use iTunes