On 6/4/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/3/07, Skyring skyring@gmail.com wrote:
Cameras have been carrying onboard GPS for years. My HP 65xx phone has both features builtin, as well as being a pocket PC.
I haven't seen many cameras having this feature. Some cellphones that have a camera, yes, but the image quality of most of those leaves something to be desired.
Does that phone of yours embed location data in the photos taken?
At least in the US, cellphone carriers are notorious for disabling useful features - like the ability to use GPS.
On investigation, I can't see any way that GPS data can be embedded in the picture data. It looks pretty simple-minded, at least the photo application supplied with the phone. And yes, the picture quality is dreadful.
Still, the fact that I can have GPS, phone, computer, camera, MP3 player etc in one handy dandy little pocket sized packet is something that astounds me. The Cray1 supercomputer had less power. It's like living in a science fiction world.