Interesting, Good

I just noticed that with the iPhone 3G (and the 2.0 firmware, in general, I guess?), the iPod application doesn't time out and become unresponsive to the headset clicker. It always annoyed me before, when I paused it with the headset button, if I waited too long, I wouldn't be able to restart the music with another click. I could hear a brief static, as the iPod app went to bed. Now, even after that static - about 15 minutes, maybe - a single click of the headset button brings it back.

iPhone 2.0 Geotagging

I installed the 2.0 software on my 1.0 iPhone today, and have been gradually working through the differences as well as the third party apps. As advertised, the camera now seems to offer to geotag your photos as you take them - it asks you when you open the camera app whether you want to allow it to access location data. Sure, why not.

So I took a test picture and uploaded it to Flickr, via email, to see how it works.

Well, it didn't. Just like before, emailing a photo strips essential EXIF data, including coordinates. I then tried transferring it to my computer to see if the geotag would be preserved that way.

It worked! Which means... I'm in China. Huh. The weird thing is that the Google Map application locates me very accurately.
I did notice something very positive. Compare this picture I took last night:

to the one above. The one taken with the 2.0 firmware looks much better, right? And they were both taken in approximately the same lighting conditions.