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		quilby on Dec 7, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Goggles Where does the info for the landmark recognition feature come from? Is it from street view? I dont see how the landmark recognition feature could be useful. If you have a camera + 3g on your phone, you have a GPS.

mbrubeck on Dec 8, 2009 | [–]

The latest iPod Touch has a video camera but no GPS. The same is true of various other non-phone handheld tablets. (Though landmark recognition might not be useful on those, since apparently it actually uses the GPS and compass as input...)

Retric on Dec 7, 2009 | [–]

3g adds nothing to this. Any network of sufficient bandwidth would work.

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