Wednesday, July 06, 2005

I Spy With My Little Cell Phone

OK, this is pretty cool.

Amabuddy - Comparison shopping by mobile phone (888) 937 4462

The idea is this: you're out shopping in the real world. You see a book or CD you're interested in. Should you buy it where you're currently touching it? Call Amabuddy and punch in the ISBN or UPC code and it will read you back the Amazon.com price and used prices for it!

What would make it even better (and give me a reason to finally get a camera phone) would be to enable camera phone bar code reading. Imagine being able to simply point your camera phone at something, then check your screen to see if it's a fair price. Coolness.