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Saturday, January 07, 2006
Comparison shop with your phone
Thought at first this was a Pricerunner clone, but it's a bit different.
The service provided by Toshiba enables taking photos of a product's barcode and get a rating returned based on what's been written about the product in blogs.
For Toshiba it seems crucial to use barcode reading, but it would have been a simpler solution if you just entered the EAN/UPC code and sent an SMS to the service. That would also have worked with all phones, and it would be simple to charge for the service via SMS (if they now charge for it).
I wonder how the service determines whether a blog entry is positive or negative, as this must be fully automated.
Sony has a similar service also reading barcodes and sending an email with the request. Also here entering the code and sending an SMS would be simpler.
asahi.com:Dial-up bar codes let buyers beware�-�ENGLISH
The service provided by Toshiba enables taking photos of a product's barcode and get a rating returned based on what's been written about the product in blogs.
For Toshiba it seems crucial to use barcode reading, but it would have been a simpler solution if you just entered the EAN/UPC code and sent an SMS to the service. That would also have worked with all phones, and it would be simple to charge for the service via SMS (if they now charge for it).
I wonder how the service determines whether a blog entry is positive or negative, as this must be fully automated.
Sony has a similar service also reading barcodes and sending an email with the request. Also here entering the code and sending an SMS would be simpler.
asahi.com:Dial-up bar codes let buyers beware�-�ENGLISH
