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One of the nice features of my new Nokia E71 mobile is the integrated GPS receiver. So i searched for a tool to use it as a GPS tracking device for geotagging of photos. I found such a tool ... it´s even from Nokia. This tool was developed for tracking sport workouts, but it allows you to export your tracks as GPX or KML files as well, so you can use it for photo geotagging (for people like me).

Yesterday evening i´ve decided to walk from cinema to home instead of using the subway and played around with the tool. You can directly upload at home. You can even activate "Life Tracking" so other people can look at your workout while you are at workout. I didn´t use this feature. I´m not a fan of this kind of exhibitionism and obviously it´s a security risk. It tracks speed, altitude, position and allows you to look at some analytic screens while tracking (for example time/speed, time/altitude and similar graphs)

You can share your tracks with friends of with anyone. I opened up the track from the picture above for everyone, so you can take a look at the data collected by the tool. The application for your mobile and additional informations are available at the website of the Nokia Research Center

Yesterday i´ve got a new mobile. It´s one of this superduperallinclusive smartphone. There is even a GPS receiver in the device. Additionally the phone includes all this hip three to six letter acronym technologies. But the best feature of the mobile doesn´t need all this arcane technological wizardry.

Before tell you about this feature, i have to describe one of my habits: I use my mobile as a alarm clock at home as the ringing of a telephone is more efficient than the ringing of a alarm clock as a high piority sleep interrupt. I assume ringing of the telephone is hardwired to "an important message" whereas the sound of an alarm clock is hardwired to "waking up and leaving the warm bed" in my brain.

Okay ... the absolute best feature of the E71 is: When you press the middle of the cursor button of the locked mobile , it displays the time white on black (so it doesn´t dazzle you) with a font size you can even read with the small eyes at 05:00 o´clock when you have to reach the red-eye train ...

Five or six people already asked me, why i use my smartphone (an Nokia E61, when you look around at CEC it seems, that half the production of this phone has gone to Sun) in the sessions and type messages troughout the . It´s not that i´m ruining Sun by sending short messages to a love interest (okay, at least not at the keynotes, and i prefer IM for that ... national GSM short messages are expensive, the price for international ones is outright obscene ).

It´s much simpler ... i feed my blog with this phone. Well, not directly and not for the long articles, but when you look at the front page you see a block of five short messages on the top. This block is feeded by my twitter-account, This feed gets it´s input from the simplified mobile twitter interface. And now the E61 comes into play: It has WLAN, it has a webbrowser .. all you need to feed twitter (and thus all you need to blog a short message) while sitting in a keynote or walking around at the conference. This is Web 2.0 as i want it .. a simple way to connect services to produce content with several (very different) input devices.

Für das beste Handy aller Zeiten - das Nokia E61 - ... okay ... wollen wir mal nicht uebertreiben ... fuer mein Lieblingsgadget gibt es eine neue Softwareversion.. Sobald ich in Reichweite meiner Windowsmöhre bin, werde ich die mal ausprobieren und berichten.