SnapTell’s premise is simple: take a photo of the cover of any CD, DVD, book, or video game, and the application will automatically identify the product and find ratings and pricing information online. Especially useful since the iPhone has a hard time scanning barcodes, and upon initial testing looks to identify most common and obscure objects.
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61 Responses
11.25.2008
While this application is indeed impressive, it is not the only one shoppers assistants available out there. The G1 for instance, it is loaded with an application from ShopSavvy which turns the phone into a bar code scanner. Here how it works: You go to a store and point the phone lens to a product bar code and it scans it and send the data to ShopSavvy’s database for a quick price comparison online and a list of local stores and product reviews.Another cool feature of this application is an email alert. For that to work, you submit your e-mail address and your preferred price for a particular product; ShopSavvy will then send you an alert when the price drops to your likening. For more ,see liink: newscradlecom.blogspot.com/2008/11/smart-ph …
11.25.2008
Tried this app on my iPhone and it does work like it says it does but it’s slow compared to the barcode look up of ShopSavy on my G1. To put things in perspective as well, the iPhone is connected to wifi only and my G1 was connected only using Edge. Guess thats the difference when you have to upload a picture instead of just a number… That article mentions that the iPhone can’t photograph barcodes very well. I’m guessing that’s because of the complete lack of auto-focus. All of you iPhone fanboys who are like “Haha the iPhone is better!”, see the part in the article where they mention this app is going to Android phones soon and with MORE FEATURES. This was cool, now I’ll put my iPhone back in the drawer.
11.25.2008
Is it a 1st gen iPhone? Which drawer is it in? Don’t get me wrong, I have a G1 – but there are better uses for an iPhone than putting it in a drawer.
11.25.2008
Wait…you got a G1 and iphone?
11.25.2008
This app infringes on a huge number of patents… sad but true.
11.25.2008
I have a G1 (android) and I’ll take CompareAnywhere over this anyday.
11.25.2008
Japan says “Welcome to 2002″
11.25.2008
I downloaded this the other day and it works nicely for the (domestic) product types it accepts. Though I didn’t try using the shopping and review search features, just getting the whizbang delight in “wow it identified the item!”It was able to recognize items among mild clutter on the desk, one turned sideways, and another upside down at an angle. When I tried two books side by side, it tended to favor one over the other regardless to left-right positioning.However, i think it might still be easier to just use Amazon’s mobile site to look up item info in a pinch, (and for more than just entertainment media.)
11.25.2008
1. Go to google2. Type “define: bargin”3. Get response: “No definitions were found for bargin.”4. Leave in confused state.5. Realize Digg submitter is jackass.
11.25.2008
Wonder where they got that idea
11.25.2008
Moron