Does the Unleashed geotag my photos without a phone or GPS device?

We often get the question whether the Unleashed alone can geotag your photos, without being connected to a phone or GPS device. Unfortunately, this is not possible because the Unleashed itself is not a GPS device and needs to get the location data from somewhere in order to embed them in your photo’s metadata. This […] Read more…

Is the Unleashed compatible with external GPS devices?

Yes! We recently added support for directly pairing either the Holux M-241 Plus, the QStarz BL-1000ST or BL-1000GT with the Unleashed. This was possible since these GPS Receivers are some of the few that support Bluetooth Low Energy. Unfortunately most other GPS receivers use only Classic Bluetooth (as did our Unleashed’09) but the new Unleashed […] Read more…

Does the app need to be open for geotagging to work?

You don’t have to have the app open, meaning actively in the foreground, to be able to use geotagging. Once you’ve activated geotagging, the app only needs to run in the background – feel free to put away your phone if you don’t need it for anything else. Only if you completely close (force-quit) the […] Read more…

Will the GPS drain my phone battery?

No. Nowadays, locating your phone’s position is highly optimized by the brightest minds at Apple, Google and smartphone manufacturers. We also optimized the Unleashed in ways that it only requests GPS coordinates when you’re actively using the camera with geotagging turned on. Normally, when you’re using geotagging you’re holding your camera in your hand. So […] Read more…