By: Will Park, IntoMobile Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 3:19 PM
HTC just went live with their GPS-loving HTC Touch Cruisethis morning, giving the world a glimpse at their redundantly-named, photo geo-tagging powerhouse. The highlight of the new touchscreen smartphone is the handset’s ability to automatically add GPS geo-tags (the “Footprints” feature) to every photo taken with the smartphone’s 3.2 megapixel camera.
But, just how does this Footprints geo-tagging service actually work? Check out the vid below for details on how you can use the HTC Touch Cruise to add location data, audio clips, and even text notes to any photo.
Pretty slick, eh? Fingers crossed for Footprints being available for other HTC smartphones…
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...