Engadget says The Register scored some advance pics of the Mio A701, a new powerhouse of a Pocket PC Phone Phone that runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 and has a built-in GPS, tri-band GSM/GPRS a 520MHz processor, 192MB of memory, a 2.7-inch LCD touch screen, a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 1.2, and an SD expansion card slot.
It could be announced next week.
While it’s not the first smart phone with integrated GPS, it’s the first we’ve seen that uses a conventional handset form-factor. It’s certainly better looking than the iPaq hw6500 series, and even the inadvertently leaked upcoming hw6700 series. Mio is pitching the A701 as a phone with PDA functionality, rather than the other way round.
The iPaq 6515 and 6715 (below), reportedly have a 1.3 megapixel camera with WiFi and GPS navigation. Multi-Media Travel was never so easy.
Poynter has some tips on making photo maps.
If, as I have, you’ve been noting with interest how people have been riffing on the Google Maps API to come up with some cool visual information applications, you might be interested in SmugMug’s latest offering. In my mind, the new service offered by this 3-year-old company is sort of a mix of a photo-sharing service like Flickr and Google Maps. (Go to this page and you’ll understand the concept.) Here’s an example of someone using SmugMug to document his biking trip around the world. Perhaps there’s a tie-in for citizen journalism; imagine using a service like this to encourage people to, say, submit photos and descriptions of their gardens, all linked to locations on a satellite map of your city
Nokia’s Lifeblog works with a variety of Nokia multimedia phones. Palm OS devices, like the Treo 650, can use HBlogger or SplashData (below), a wireless photo-blogging solution. FeederReader and PocketBlogger work on a PocketPC.
Adam Curry uses a T-Mobile MDA III Pocket PC phone. He is planning to geo-podcast, recording audio reports combined with location information, so that listeners could follow along using a map or satellite photo. His iPodder is available for the PocketPC. The MDA IV has a tablet-like swivel screen, megapixel camera, WiFi and SD slot.
Melodeo and Pod2Mob work on cellphones. Podcasting News has the latest.
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