Jan Zdarsa Although Amazon has perfectly optimized site for iPhone, so he couldn't resist and created his iPhone app. Today, the Amazon Mobile application was approved and introduced, so everyone can try it out. Of course, the application allows a classic search or viewing of goods by category, but that's not all.
As is often the case when one of the big players in the Internet field creates an application comes to iPhone with something unique. Amazon came up with a function where you take a picture of a product, this image is then saved on Amazon's servers and a unique algorithm starts looking for the product in the store. Yes, you heard that right, no barcodes, just a straight photo of the item. Of course, it will not evaluate this right away, but according to the creators, this search can take 5 minutes, but also several hours. The upper limit is set for 24 hours. If Amazon finds the product, you should receive an email with the offer.
Unfortunately, we didn't make it recognition of goods according to barcodes and this feature we can envy the owners of the Google phone G1. This is of course due to the iPhone lacking something like autofocus. Of course, there are already some attempts at barcode recognition on the Appstore, but the results are simply limited by the iPhone's hardware. The application is completely free on the Appstore, but unfortunately it's only available on the US iTunes Store so far.
However, you forgot to mention that the application can be downloaded from the us store. I would say just such a small detail is quite significant