Droid X: The Missing Manual

Using Market

Tap the Market icon, and you get sent to the Android Market, which has tens of thousands of apps you can download, with more added every month. The apps are either free or very low cost—typically under $4, although some business-related apps can cost up to $30.

• Major library divisions are located across the top—Apps, Games, and Verizon. The Apps area has all apps except for games; Games has, as the name implies, only Games; and Verizon has a number of Verizon-specific (and a number of non–Verizon specific) apps, like ones for using the Verizon V CAST service and managing your Verizon Wireless account.

• A changing category list is just beneath the library divisions, with topics like Arcade & Action, News & Weather, and so on. The category changes every few seconds. Tap it to see a list of apps in that category.

• A featured list is at the bottom. It lists the names of apps, the developer of the apps, and what you’ll have to pay for them, if anything. Tap any to get more information about it.

At the very top of the screen, at the upper right, is a search button. Tap it to search for an app.

Browsing by Library Divisions and Categories

Tap one of the major library divisions across the top of the Market—Apps, Games, or Verizon—and you come to a list of categories in that major division. So, for example, in Apps you’ll find many categories, including Comics, Communications, Finance, ...