Steelhorn Software is publicly beta testing a barcode scanner for the Blackberry. It is called “edocrab” which is the word “barcode” spelled backwards. Point-and-shoot at a UPC barcode and it transmits the UPC number to their database to find the best price for the product on the web and in stores. In utilizes the GPS receiver on the Blackberry to find stores local to you.
The camera-scanner feature works on the Storm, Storm 2, Curve 8900 and Tour. For other Blackberry devices, you can manually input the numbers found beneath the barcode.
Generally, it works well and has the potential to be a very good app as their barcode database grows. I was able to find most books, music and electronics in their database. For many products, it will also pull up reviews from the web which can be browsed from within the app.
Point your Blackberry browser to edocrab.com to download.
Andoid has a similar app which searches the Google Product Search database.
No related posts.
Jon Mallin
Founder of Tech Bottle Blog. Attorney & Amateur Blogger. B.A. University of Michigan 1997 and J.D. NYU School of Law 2000.
Jon Mallin on Google+ (Preferred) --
@JonMallin on Twitter --
LinkedIN C.V. -- Email Jon@TBOTTLE.COM-
Kristopher
