Geo tagging for pictures taken with iPhone on the way
Geo tagging is a feature that is included on many higher end devices, especially Nokia’s devices, and is becoming increasingly popular on non smart devices. The iPhone does not have the ability to geo tag pictures. not yet at least. Geo tagging is when a device writes its current position to the meta data of an image when the device saves the image to memory.
The feature was discovered in a new build of the 2.0 firmware, which has been dubbed 5A292g. This is all fine and dandy for GPS enabled handsets like the new iPhone that will be released soon, but what about for the GPS challenged iPhone we know today? The simple answer is yes it will work. These screen shots are not from a 3G iPhone, as no one has stepped forward as having one.
The complicated answer, is kind of. The iPhone uses cell site triangulation to achieve its location awareness. While it is not as precise as GPS, it usually precise enough for most uses. Geo tagging is among those features that will work for the purpose of it. The set back is not cell sites, no location services. Just don’t leave the safety of the network, you never do anyway, right?
[Via AppleInsider]
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