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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , software , Cool Tools , Odds and ends Free iPhone Snaptell Explorer retrives Product offerings from the iPhone camera
Mike Schramm on 20 November 2008 at 3:00 PM 
Oh man – finally, we get a erf app? llt that the promise of the iPhone. Since we knew the iPhone h? Tte a camera and an Internet connection, we have been waiting for SnapTell Explorer , and now it's here, and is free. Download and install it on the iPhone, and then snap a picture of each book, CD, movie or video game, and bingo, you have links to offerings f? R it (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Wikipedia, Google, etc.) around the Internet. I have no idea how it works (some kind of picture script comparison hooked up to a database, certainly, but it is amazing that it works well, that only the iPhone camera), but that's OK, because it makes it all the more not by magic. The gr? te disadvantage is that it takes a little to search their database – w while Wi-Fi and 3G are much faster (nat? rlich), Edge m? You must wait a few minutes f? r find one. And at this point, everything they have links to pages – it w? Re sch? N, to see a price-comparison right away and / or a quick Einsch? Translation of hotels (see immediately what people think of a movie, if you are in a video – Save your choice). Schliemann? Including w? Re sch it? S to see them on all types of Objet? Nd – I tried scanning a few foods that I k? Nnte purchase price, but f? R now it is only B? Consumers, Movies and music. But otherwise, it's great – even in bad Lichtverh? ltnissen / bad Lichtverh? ltnissen illuminated, as long as you have a recognizable image of the case, it works. This is exactly the kind of what the iPhone will f? R, very cool to finally see them in action. [Via Waxy ] 
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2mrtrik said 3:37PM on 11-20-2008
Very cool idea. Definitely need the price comparison… cuz typing into google would be faster no?As for speed – I'd guess the time difference (edge, wifi, 3g) is uploading the photo, or downloading the results, not searching their database. Their speed doesn't change.
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2 mrtrik 3.37 Uhr am 11-20-2008
Sehr coole Idee. Definitiv m?ssen den Preis Vergleich … cuz Eingabe in Google w?re nicht schneller? Was die Geschwindigkeit – ich denke, die Zeit Differenz (EDGE, WiFi, 3G) ist das Hochladen des Fotos, das Herunterladen oder die Ergebnisse, nicht die Suche ihrer Datenbank. Ihre Geschwindigkeit ?ndert sich nicht.
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