David Pogue, technology guru for the New York Times, has listed his nine best technology ideas this year.

The Motorola Droid Dock and Car Mount were one of those ideas:

The Motorola Droid, of course, is an app phone (that is, an iPhone wannabe with a black rectangular touch screen, etc.). It’s generally a very good one, with slide-out keyboard, excellent speed and the Verizon network.

The winner here isn’t the phone, though — it’s the docks. One $30 plastic dock suctions to your windshield. When you slip the phone into it, hidden magnetic sensors automatically fill the Droid’s screen with Google’s new GPS navigation software, complete with turn-by-turn driving directions, spoken street names, color coding to indicate traffic, map icons (for parking and so on), satellite view and more.

Or buy the $30 home dock. When you insert the Droid, the screen becomes a handsome, horizontal-layout alarm-clock/weather display, complete with buttons that let you access your music or even dim the screen for sleepy time. You have to charge your phone overnight anyway, so why shouldn’t it be doing something useful in the meantime?

Source: NYTimes.com

As someone who also appreciates efficiency in everything, I like Pogue’s comment about the Droid actually performing some function while it charges overnight.

Anyway, Amazon.com carries both the Droid Multimedia Docking Station and Motorola’s OEM Window Mount.

The Novatel MiFi was also included on David Pogue’s best of ’09 list. Anyone looking for a wireless internet connection and WiFi router in one small box should check out BuyMiFi.com for more details and deals!

Now I’m not so sure that we need a new classification for new Android phones, like the Motorola Droid, but author David Pogue‘s observation of how close the cell phone is almost merging with the laptop is spot-on.

Anyway, this is another review of the Motorola Android. Pogue extensively compares the Motorola Droid to the iPhone, from which the Droid hopes to pull customers away from.

Pogue’s conclusion: the Motorola Droid is a worthy challenger to the iPhone, though not without some quirks of its own.

Check out the full review over at NYTimes.com.