Seems to be topic of the week, anyway;

Get one of these.

Then download this, for free, onto it.

http://mytracks.appspot.com/

I've just done 3.5 hours out in the freezingness and got a track and a load of stats to play with, and used about 20% battery life to do so…

How good is an android phone though?

In my opinion, better for me than an iPhone. Bloody great, basically.

Why?

see, i wrote a topic about this on sunday, and no one cared! if you want real tracking software, you need motionX gps

I currently own an iphone, and can't decide wether to go iphone 3g, android, or palm pre!
Any help would be appreciated!

Nokia Sportstracker is worth looking at as well. Real time trackign if you're getting a signal.

see, i wrote a topic about this on sunday, and no one cared! if you want real tracking software, you need motionX gps

Nah, you want viewranger. Like all the other ones, but with OS maps (and pretty decent route following arrow gubbins too if you like that sort of thing). Only symbian for now, but coming out on Android next year.

Joe

Ok, its not an iPhone. I've played with this (what I'm typing on now) and an iPhone side by side, and they are similar but different.
The thing that sold me is the absolute, total customisability of the hero. You can even make your iPhone act like one!
I'd have a proper play with an android phone, and use the iPhone as a benchmark.