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By: Luke the Hitchhiker

Luke the Hitchhiker — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:59:00 +0000

I was HITCHHIKING from Southern California toward east in middle of July. I got stranded in middle of the desert in the front of Mojave Desert and no one was picking me up (104 degrees, out of water). To make matters worse, there was a freaking THUNDERSTORM coming toward my way, so I took the next exit and took cover below the bridge, hating myself. Then I used my Droid Eris to look at the map, where I found a small town nearby (~3miles away) where I could find some cover.

By: ImmaDroid

ImmaDroid — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:59:00 +0000

I got super lost one time driving from NJ to NC. I stopped off the main highway in Virginia, and was driving. I saw an extremely bad accident.. Im talking Horrible! So my trust phone and GPS contacted 911, told them my exact location. Sat with the injured people until help arrived. Then mapped my way out of there. Thanks to my Smartphone!

By: David Luong

David Luong — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:58:00 +0000

Was in the middle of no where, turned on Google maps and found my way out. This was in 2009 when I got my Droid from Verizon.

By: ChrisConner09

ChrisConner09 — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:58:00 +0000

Rerouted my dad’s flight around a storm

By: Matolan

Matolan — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:58:00 +0000

Good toy for when my little son is screaming.

By: zpartal

zpartal — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:58:00 +0000

Got lost, maps got me out.

By: Sipidation

Sipidation — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:57:00 +0000

This is more my android phone helping someone else out. On a daily walk from work I was flagged down by a frantic woman looking for a certain building near by and had been driving around for a very long time. She was lost, late, and confused where she was at. So I pulled out the phone and loaded up google maps. We were able to find where she was looking for and get her in the right direction.

She was not the first for this, but the most flustered and lost one.

By: xraytedjim

xraytedjim — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:57:00 +0000

I just used the flashlight to see so i could jump start my car

By: Jordan Seaich

Jordan Seaich — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:56:00 +0000

I was able to use latitude to help find my brother when he got lost the last time we went on vacation. Took me at least an hour to remember I set it up on his phone. He just wouldn’t answer his phone scared my mom almost to death.

By: KRS_Won

KRS_Won — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:56:00 +0000

I was driving on 64 at 3A.M. when my car ran out of gas. I used the GPS of my brand new RAZR to walk 4.5 in the rain to get gas. It took 3 gas stations before I found one that took credit cards at the pump after hours. I used the Flashlight app to find an empty Arizona Tea jug in the dumpster to hold gas. As I was climbing out the dumpster, my wet phone slipped out of my hand and busted the screen:-( Then I got to use my GPS to find my way back to my car. Android has saved me more than once. Still haven’t fixed me screen after 6 months though…

By: Aaron Sadler

Aaron Sadler — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:54:00 +0000

My phone saves me from a screaming toddler in the car.

By: David Weidman

David Weidman — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:52:00 +0000

I am a helicopter rescue pilot and had a critical patient on board. I was taking him to a hospital helipad that was 60 miles away when my navigation system failed (no gps in the aircraft). I took out my Galaxy Nexus and opened up google maps, punched in the hospital and navigated from the air with my phone. My phone and google maps basically saved this guys life who was minutes away from dying. Without that capability there is no telling how lost we could have gotten. So my phone got the entier crew and the patient out of the stickiest situation.

By: HockeyTech

HockeyTech — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:49:00 +0000

During a bad winter storm last year, I was without power and internet for over a day. Having my andriod phone not only gave me piece of mind for safety, but also kept me entertained and connected to the world.

By: Jholland

Jholland — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:47:00 +0000

My Android phone is helping me get through waiting in this long ass line in Chipotle by allowing me to check out all the new posts on Droid life I don’t know what I’d do without it

By: Billy Dillon

Billy Dillon — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:43:00 +0000

My honeymoon in Florida…Google maps got us out of several high traffic areas and two highway accidents. Now if we had Apple maps we most likely would have ended up somewhere in the sahara.