Amazon has just released an App that provides much of the Web experience of Amazon.com along with what looks to be a pretty neat feature – Amazon Remembers.
(UPDATED with some use comments at the end)
According to the product description, the app allows you to take a photo of a product — book, dvd, even a pair of shoes — and search Amazon for that product. The feature, "Amazon Remembers", can even alert you when a product match is found. This sounds similar to the impressive SnapTell application which provides similar functionality minus the alerting feature.
The Amazon.com app is currently free at the App Store.
App Store description:
The Amazon app allows iPhone and iPod touch owners to very quickly search, compare prices, read reviews, and make purchases on Amazon.com using a simple, yet elegant, interface. Amazon customers have full access to their existing cart, wish lists, payment and shipping options, order history, 1-Click(TM) settings, and Prime membership benefits. All purchases made on Amazon Mobile are routed through Amazon’s secure servers just as they are on the web.
The Amazon app also includes a new experimental feature called Amazon Remembers that allows you to use the camera on your iPhone to create a visual list of things you want to remember while out-and-about. The photos you take from the app are stored on both the Amazon Mobile app and Amazon’s website. If the item you want to remember is a product, Amazon Remembers will even try to find an product similar to your photo for sale on the web. If we do, we’ll send you an e-mail alert and post the result along with the photo.
Amazon Mobile is great for:
* Buying the sequel to a favorite book while waiting for an appointment
* Comparing prices on Amazon and 9000 other merchants to those in the retail store you are visiting
* Purchasing and gift wrapping your holiday gifts
* Browsing product images and reading customer reviews while on the bus or train
* Tracking the status of a recently-placed order when you’re away from your computer
* Seeing if Amazon Remembers can find a pair of shoes for sale like the one the person sitting next to you is wearing
UPDATE:
I took a photo of a DVD I already owned and Amazon (eventually, hours later) notified me via email and in the app that it had found the item. So this is not going to be useful for price-matching in a store, but it’s helpful in case you are at a friend’s house and only have a quick second to snap a pic of that book, DVD, CD, or game that you want to buy at a (much) later time.
On a lark, I did a search for a TV show that I loved from back in the ’80s that I haven’t been able to find anywhere – in syndication or on DVD. Amazingly enough, it is now available, and I’ve never one-clicked a purchase so fast. Very shortly, the TV show "Voyagers!" will be mine at last! The best part? I did it in a speedy native app on my iPhone from a restaurant and not on a web browser with a PC.
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