Richard's Tech Reviews

hundreds of millions of GPS-enabled cellphones

This is mostly about the nav market, but it gives you an idea of the scale of the change as more cellphones with GPS come out.

the top three GPS makers hold around an 80 per cent market share, giving them scale advantages over smaller players. But competition is coming from many directions, including big names like Nokia Corp., Sony Inc., Google Inc. and probably Apple.

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By 2010, Gartner estimates, 500 million cellphones capable of navigation will [sell] annually, compared to just 95 million pure navigation devices. Most cellphones can't yet match the easy touch interface of the devoted devices, but Apple's iPhone offers evidence that that may not be true for long.

Other competitors are getting smarter too: Both Google and Microsoft have introduced the option this spring of taking traffic conditions into account in their mapping instructions, using traffic data from vendors to calculate time to travel instead of distance.

Globe and Mail - AP - GPS market at turning point - April 25, 2008

LoadMyTracks supports DG-100 on Mac

After Long Last, we are happy to announce support for the GlobalSat DG-100 GPS Datalogger. To verify that this code works on computers that aren't here at ClueTrust, we'd like for any of you who can to test this out within the next couple of days (we're hoping to release before the end of the week).

The pre-release version can be downloaded from: http://www.cluetrust.com/Downloads/LoadMyTracks_063.dmg

B. Mann's blog - LoadMyTracks now supports the Globalsat DG-100 on Mac OS X - April 22, 2008

If you find any bugs, please reply to [email address removed] with subject "[cluetrust.com #358] FR: Request to support GlobalSat DG100 GPS", to help the guys track down any issues.

UPDATE 2008-04-29: If you find any bugs, please report at http://www.cluetrust.com/bugreport.html - don't email the trouble ticket system directly.

Geotagging in camera sw for N82 Firmware v20

With the v20.0.062 firmware, released April 8, 2008, photo geocoding is now built-in to the Nokia N82 Camera software (previously you had to download, install and run the separate Location Tagger software).

Geocoding (Image Settings - Record Location) is disabled by default.

This is another big step forward for in-device geocoding.

Info from All About Symbian.com - Flash Video and Web Runtime hit the Nokia N82
via Flickr Nokia N82 User Group

Flickr adds Nokia N82

Flickr has a feature where they track information about photos taken with a particular camera, they just added the Nokia N82.

http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n82/

• 1,876 items uploaded yesterday
• 296 users yesterday
• Ranked 3 of 47 Nokia Cameras

You can see charts comparing the Nokia cameras at

http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/

American Airlines - no GPS on a plane

Airline policies differ, but the one for American Airlines is quite clear

During flight, never use cell phones (to make or receive calls), two-way pagers, radios, TV sets, remote controls (example: DVD, CD, game, or toy remote controls), a cordless computer mouse, commercial TV cameras, or Global Positioning Systems.

From American Airlines - Onboard Technology