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Google Android now has a barcode scanner
by Jay Hathaway May 18th 2009 at 5:00PM
It just became a really good idea to take your Google Android device shopping with you. Android now packs a barcode scanning feature that plugs into Google's Mobile Product Search database, so you can compare prices on items you find and see if it might be cheaper to buy online. The scanner currently works best with media like books and dvds, or with electronics, but more products are being added all the time.To enable it, browse on your Android phone to Google.com, select "More" and then "Shopping" and Product Search. Then click on the Scan Barcode button. This should install the software on your device. To use the app once it's open, you can just point the red line over a barcode, and Android should do the rest. If it doesn't work for the item you want, you can still resort to old-fashioned keyboard search.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brent Schmidt said 6:10PM on 5-18-2009
Sorta old news... this was one of the features they showed me when I was buying mine back in late January. Scanned the barcode and it took me to Amazon or any other place.
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n3rd said 6:46PM on 5-18-2009
are you serious
really now
a barcode scanner?!?!
next you'll tell us theres a camera or something crazy on the phone...
there have been multiple barcode scanners
since... lets say about... november 2008 at least when i got my phone
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Matt said 7:22PM on 5-18-2009
The real news here is that Google added a link on their shopping page when viewed in Androids browser that will open the barcode scanning application. As metioned on the google mobile blog. http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-product-search-for-android-now.html
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Racetrack_Owner said 7:50AM on 5-20-2009
I just wish they'd put more effort into making the Android browser suck less.
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