While camera makers like Panasonic and Nikon are busy adding Wi-Fi capability to their cameras, Taiwanese ODM Altek has announced a point-and-shoot with built-in GPS and automatic geotagging capabilities which it expects to begin shipping by summer.
Detailed camera specs (and pricing) are unavailable, but Altek does note that the camera will feature an 8.0-megapixel CCD, a 3-inch touchscreen LCD, and include a bilingual handwriting recognition system (English and Chinese) in addition to the GPS chip.
As an ODM, Altek doesn't market digital cameras itself, so the new camera will be sold under a different brand. No word yet on who the takers are, but note that Altek--which has a 10 percent market share of digital cameras worldwide and manufactures cameras for Kodak, Pentax, and HP (adding Sanyo as a client at the end of last year)--is one of three digital camera makers bidding for HP's brand license after the company announced it would no longer manufacture its own cameras.
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