The Location Tagger from Nokia Labs

With Nokia Location Tagger, you can automatically tag your location data to your pictures. As you take a picture, your GPS coordinates are saved to the EXIF header of the JPEG file. You can use this data later, for example, to locate your pictures on a map. According to the labs, this app will likely soon come shipped on select devices (likely those with integrated GPS) - see more details and download (free) from http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/locationtagger

Find and share your Geocaches with your Nokia n95

This from Nokia, a free download for you Geocaching buffs... Ad-Supported Geocache Navigator Application Now Available as a Free Download for Select Nokia Devices - Text CACHE to 32075 (US and Canada) or +447781488133 (International).

Trimble's Geocache Navigator is now available as a free download for the Nokia N95, Nokia N82, and Nokia 6110 Navigator. Three options for downloading the application include:

-- Texting CACHE to 32075 (U.S. and Canada) or +447781488133
(International)
-- Downloading the application from the Geocache Navigator web site at
http://www.geocachenavigator.com/nokia
-- Pointing a mobile phone browser to m.getGN.com

A detailed demo video is now available from Trimble

or view the video clip below

GPSed real time GPS trip tracking, social networking

SHAPE Services officially announced the release of GPSed (http://gpsed.com/), a complete solution for real time GPS trip tracking and a social networking place for GPS, digital photography and mobile users. GPSed installed on the latest BlackBerry, some Symbian or Java smartphones with a built-in or external GPS receiver can record tracks and transfer them to GPSed web service in real time. Users who already have a GPS receiver and some tracks may easily upload, view and share them using the software.

Nokia Sports Tracker holiday idea - track your sled rides with GPS

I have some holiday fun with the kids today as we used Nokia Sports Tracker and my Nokia N95 to track and save our sled rides down the slopes. Before we started down the slope I simply fired up sports tracker, got a GPS signal, slipped it into Megan's pocket and away she went. Her average speed up and down the slope was 4.8 kmph (slowed somewhat by the walk back up the hill1) and her maximum speed down the slope was a whopping 26.1 kmph (about 16 mph)... loads of fun!
See http://sportstracker.nokia.com - you can find my tracks on user "gisuser"

Nokia Research - GPS Sports Tracker gets a major update at 1.66

Hey Sports Tracker fans and mobile sports enthusiasts, we have news of a great gift for you in the latest upgrade to the Awesome, Sports Tracker Application now at R. 1.66. Now the mobile app is tightly integrated with the Online Beta Service! I accidentally spotted this update this morning when I went into Sports Tracker and was prompted for an update. I updated to version 1.66 and to my surprise the service is now compatible with the newly launched Nokia Sports Tracker Online Beta web service. See more in this article

Feel free to friend me in Sports Tracker - search user gisuser

See sample trek - http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=19183

Vegas the dog tracked with Nokia Sports Tracker and N95

A video captured at Nokia World 2007 (by yours truly) showing an innovative app and user of Nokia Beta Labs popular Sports tracker application. Vegas the do wears a Nokia N95 GPS enabled device on his collar and him and his owner track his following using sports tracker.. clever and funny! Well done Vegas... I think I'l lstrap my old N95 to Nash my lab!

No Nokia N95 with GPS.. you can use the poor man's GPS

Nice job on this video... I'm still not likely to be a frequent visitor to GPS maniac (nothing very interesting there.. sorry!) although these videos are freaking funny... go spencer! View the vid below for the poor man GPS

GPShopper (Slifter) Wins Tele Atlas Maps in Apps Contest

A cool app for your handset... think if it as your own personal mobile concierge... Become a GPS Shopper! Kudos to Slifter and their GPS shopper on this win... the app is indeed cool, to say the least! I recall I first featured Slifter last Christmas (prior to their fame) as an application to watch. GPShopper (www.gpshopper.com) is the first ever local mobile phone product search. With big name retailers and over 50 million products, GPShopper and its revolutionary Slifter (www.slifter.com) technology allows consumers to receive up-to-the-minute product availability, location and pricing right on their cell phones. See more on the Contest in this PR from Tele Atlas

To market to market... where to get that Nokia N95

I noticed that just recently that Nokia has announced the opening of a new flagship store in Shanghai, China - FYI, the stores are Nokia's main POC for B to C and are quite important. There's a couple in the USA (New York , Chicago) but hardly enough. Why so? Well... its funny but Nokia is going gangbusters promoting the crap our of the N95 - this device was even recently billed as the official device of the Navteq LBS Challenge... ie. Nokia and Navteq want LBS developers to build apps to run on this device on the S60 environment. So what's the problem? Well... ever tried to buy an N95 in the USA! Currently, buying an unlocked device online (ebay or other) is likely the best way to go, unless you happen to be close to a flagship store. Otherwise, if you go into AT&T or T-Mobile they will likely look at you with a strange look and say "what's an N95"?? Getting to the consumer is a huge issue for Nokia smartphones here in North America and continues to get worse. Finally, get this... just this week I was at a Nokia S60 gig and the crew was giving away an N95 in a door prize (I didn't win.. darn it!) but the kicker... the Nokia/S60 people couldn't find one in San Francisco!! OUCH - one suggested resource for locating these and other products is - GPS-enabled product search, aka. GPS shopping! see www.s60.com / www.nokia.com