HTC's got an all-new version of its GPS-centric
Touch Cruise handset, with a thinner, slicker design and a new HTC Footprints app for integrating that location data with photos and notes. Of course, the phone doubles as a traditional in-car navigation system, cradle included, with GPS and a-GPS, but there's plenty else to love here, including quad band GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, a microSD slot and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The 2.8-inch QVGA screen betrays this phone's consumer-bent, but the truly notable functionality here is actually in the software: HTC Footprints takes geotagging a step further, allowing to to take notes and audio clips and embed them in a "postcard" of sorts, all still tied to that GPS location data -- the cards are even auto-named by their location. Footprints also works outdoors and indoors, which isn't quite explained, but we're guessing it just remembers where you were when you lost a signal. There's a world-friendly WCDMA / HSPA 900 / 2100MHz version, of course, but us North Americans will be getting the 850 / 1900MHz flavor as a unlocked handset for $500 to $600 in Q2. Check out the read links below for the full PR and some early hands-ons, and there's video after the break.
[Via
Phone Scoop; thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Read - HTC PR
Read - Touch Cruise hands-on (in Russian)
Read - Touch Cruise hands-on (in English)
posted January 22nd 2009 9:18AM
I don't know if that is your own article which you're plugging. If it is, then I apologise for the direct abuse.
People: don't bother clicking the link. The article is badly written, has no pictures and offers absolutely nothing in terms of insightful comparison - you could pick up anything it tells you from a picture and the spec sheet. The article doesn't include either though, so you might as well look them up separately. Frankly, it's just a bit odd.
I run the HTC Diamond. It too has geo-tagging. It is just shipped with the feature disabled!
To get it, load diamond tweak onto the phone and there is an option in their to enable it.
Once you have done that, open camera and in the mode menu, you'll find something called GPS photo.
I assume the reason that HTC disactivate it is so they can use largely the same OS on each phone.
i wanna tap that
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