Amazon Japan Offers Barcode Purchases via Camera Phone

via Slashdot.

Zode writes "Jesse James Garrett reports that Amazon Mobile Japan customers can purchase a item with their camera phones. "Snap a photo of a product bar code using your cell phone, and Amazon Japan will give you a price check," according to Garrett, relaying from this article in Ketai Watch (Wireless Watch - in Japanese).

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-- Comparison book shopping on Amazon.com - "Now, shoppers can take out their Nokia 3650 camera phone at Barnes & Noble, Border's, or just about any other book store, and just take a picture of the ISBN on the book to comparison shop at Amazon.com right on the screen of their wireless Web browser".

emily | 3:38 PM | Barcode Technologies / RFID Tags / NFC |
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