Doug Fortune points me to some info on the GPS and photo capabilities of the new Nokia N96
GPS is becoming a standard feature on Nokia’s higher end phones – all four of its phones announced at MWC have GPS hardware on board. They are all A-GPS (Assisted GPS) capable too, which greatly improves lock on times, especially from a cold start. The N96 will ship with Nokia Maps 2.0, currently in beta, on board.
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The camera application will be familiar to Nseries users, with its icon-based settings controls. Each set of Nseries releases seem to add a little something to the camera functionality and the N96 (and N78) are no exception - there’s now built in support for automatic location tagging (also known as geotagging). Geotagging stores location data, obtained from the phone’s GPS, within the image file. There is a certain amount of intelligence built into the geotagging functionality. It will, for example, only try to get a GPS lock for so long before giving up, preserving battery life, but it will also apply location information retrospectively if it's able to get a lock later on (e.g. when you move outside a building), but only within a certain time frame (so that you haven't moved too far).
The biggest change on the multimedia software front is the new Photos application. This replaces Gallery as the key application for viewing photos and videos(!) captured with the phone. Gallery is still present on the phone because some of its functionality, such as storing streaming audio links, is still required, but it is tucked away in sub folder.
All About Symbian - Nokia N96 Hands-on Preview - February 21, 2008
Other than the Photos app, all of this is already available on the N82, with a combination of free firmware upgrade (to get the new Camera app) and Maps 2.0 beta download. The info about the Camera GPS lock intelligence is useful. I had asked about the GPS in Flickr Nseries Support but (as usual) didn't get an answer.
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