When used with a quality mapping app such as Google Maps, your smart phone’s GPS radio is a powerful device that can help you get where you’re going better than any traditional map ever could.

But it comes with one significant downside: it tends to deplete your phone’s battery charge in a hurry.

GeoLog is a very handy free app that works with your Android phone’s GPS radio to limit its use to when you actually need it.  [Read more…]