New HTC Touch Cruise Offers HTC Footprints Geo Tagging Functionality

HTC have taken the wraps off a new, updated version of the GPS touting
HTC Touch Cruise smartphone which now comes complete with HTC's
Footprint geo-tagging functionality billed as enabling 'people to
permanently chronicle their special moments by capturing a digital
postcard on their phone'.

According to Peter Chou, President and CEO, HTC Corporation, 'Just as we
have seen GPS technology transform how people navigate to new places, we
are now seeing location-based applications like HTC Footprints changing
how we interact and carry our memories'.

HTC's Footprint application allows users to capture digital postcards
which can be composed of pictures, notes and audio clips which will be
specifically geo-tagged to the users current location allowing users to,
for example, note a particularly impressive/unimpressive restaurant,
where their partner lives with each 'footprint' being either titled by
the user or automatically according to the location where it was composed.

This GPS geo-tagging functionality comes on top of the HTC Touch
Cruise's touchscreen based in-car navigation capabilities when docked in
its car cradle.

Apart from the above, the new iteration of the Touch Cruise remains
unchanged in offering the following specifications - apart from the new
dedicated Footprint :

Qualcomm MSM7225, 528 MHz chipset
WCDMA/HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps Connectivity
2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution display
512 MB flash ROM, 256 MB RAM internal memory
microSD memory card (SD 2.0 compatible) expansion slots
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS
HTC TouchFLO, 4-Way navigation wheel with Enter and HTC Footprints buttons
3.2 MP, with fixed focus camera
GPS/A-GPS
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
Up to 400 minutes talktime (GSM)
Up to two weeks standby (GSM)
102 x 53.5 x 14.5mm
103 grams

The new version of the HTC Touch Cruise with HTC Footprints will
purportedly be released to the north American market as an unlocked
version offering 850/1900 MHz HSDPA 7.2Mbps connectivity some time in
the second quarter of the year and will retain for between $500 and $600.