HTC G1 - Google Android phone - geotagging?

As always, my main interest is to find out whether the new HTC G1 cellphone has built-in geotagging (presumably if it doesn't an Android app could add it, but it's better to have it by default).

I've scoured the two sites available, as well as the Android documentation, but there's no mention of this obvious feature.

UPDATE 2008-10-28: The official user manual (PDF) has a very brief mention of this feature (page 100).  Camera Settings...

Store location in pictures Select this check box if you want to save the longitude and latitude in the picture’s metadata so you know where the photo was taken. Some applications, such as Picasa Web albums, can then display the picture on a map.

The terminology "geotagging" is not used in the manual.

Here's what the setting looks like in the T-Mobile G1 emulator

END UPDATE

Here are the relevant specs:

• GPS navigation capability with built-in GPS receiver and map software
• 3.2 megapixel color camera with fixed focus
• Digital Compass, Motion Sensor

The two main sites are

http://www.htc.com/www/product/g1/specification.html

http://www.t-mobileg1.com/

The digital compass + motion sensor + Google Street View does give one cool feature, shown in video on the T-Mobile site and described by David Pogue in his preview (he got 10 minutes with the phone)

They’ve even added a feature to Google Maps: in Street View (photos of actual locations taken from ground level), you can hold the phone perpendicular to the ground—and as you turn your body, the photo rotates, too, like a photographic compass, so that it matches what you’re seeing with your eyes. It’s amazing and actually useful, especially when you emerge from the subway and have no idea which way you’re facing.

A First Look at Google’s New Phone - New York Times - September 23, 2008

HTC also has a fairly long press release - T-Mobile Unveils the T-Mobile G1 — the First Phone Powered by Android.

Android, the open-source operating system that powers the phone, is documented at

http://code.google.com/android/

In their blog they do have an interesting post about using the GPS and Panoramio to view photos near your location, but nothing about geotagging.

As always, I will let you know as soon as I find out about geotagging support and how to set it up.

Comments

[Robert Kedoin]

I was just wondering the same thing. This page:
http://dptnt.com/2008/09/t-mobile-g1-supports-geotagging-out-of-the-box/
says it works out of the box and page 100 of the leaked manual seems to have the text that is referenced on that page.

How much trust can be placed in a leaked manual? Dunno...