I'm getting the orginial Droid A855 and I'm new to the smart phone scene. Any suggestions for some awesome (preferably free) Android apps?

What areas/types are you looking for as there's a shed ton of apps available.

Things like planners and general productivity apps

I find zombie run to be very useful, you can never predict when zombies will attack so practice running away from them now

Haha awesome

I really like Locale. It lets you customize your settings depending on where you are. It'll detect if you are in class or something and switch to vibrate without you having to do anything. That's just a simple example but I think its pretty cool!

That'll be useful haha that way I won't have to worry about it in lectures!

Exactly! Very helpful.