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08-01-2005, 02:23 AM
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Cell phones with cameras finally getting useful?
This looks good.... (news story)
Basically it's an application for your cell that lets you take a picture of a barcode. It then performs a lookup on Amazon (and others?) allowing you to comparison shop right there onsite. They did a CD in the news story I just watched and where able to preview some of the tracks and watch the video (on your phone). Nifty chit. 
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08-01-2005, 02:24 AM
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Re: Cell phones with cameras finally getting useful?
it's takes a picture? seems like waste when instead it could just scan it.
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08-01-2005, 02:34 AM
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Re: Cell phones with cameras finally getting useful?
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it's takes a picture? seems like waste when instead it could just scan it. [/ QUOTE ] It's unclear from reading their documentation if they are already using the camera as a reader or not. Im guessing the software decodes the image and obtains the barcode for now though... They do make mention of barcode enabled phones though and I think that if this takes off, you will start to see bar code readers as a stadard funtion of cell phones, camera or none, from here on out...
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08-01-2005, 02:37 AM
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Re: Cell phones with cameras finally getting useful?
either way you are right it is cool and even useful which is a plus.
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