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[APP] AmazonIt! 1.3 [2010.09.13] barcode price lookup

What It Does

AmazonIt! helps you shop. Ever see an item on the shelf that looks interesting, but you wonder

A) if you can find it cheaper online?

B) if it's any good?

That's where AmazonIt! comes in. Using AmazonIt!, you can scan a product's UPC or EAN barcode, and see its Amazon.com price and ratings.

AmazonIt! will also show you if the price of an item has changed since it was last updated.

How It Works

AmazonIt! uses a converted version of the java library Zxing to detect barcodes. It then uses Amazon's Product Advertising API in order to retrieve product information.

Requirements

Windows Mobile 5 or greater

.NET CF 3.5 or greater

Unlimited Data plan (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Latest News

Bugfix/new feature release (see changelog below)

Registration

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History

[2010.09.13] - 1.3 bugfix/feature release

[2010.08.28] - 1.2 bugfix/feature release

[2010.08.23] - 1.11 bugfix/feature release

[2010.08.18] - 1.1 bugfix/feature release

[2010.08.01] - 1.0 initial release

Contact

Official app page

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1.3 Features

Scan, load, or input UPC/EAN barcodes, ISBN, ASIN

Retrieve product info, prices, and ratings from Amazon.com

Launch product link in your mobile browser

Send product information via email

1.3 Notes

Limited feature release (v2.0 will be more robust)

Touch-scrolling isn't great, but it works

Most international Amazon.com sites are now supported (except Japan)

Barcode detection library is substandard but free. I'll try to improve it for v2.0.

To Do List

Support for more barcodes

Faster barcode detection

Manually add an item by searching Amazon.com by keyword

Discover related items

Manually enter a store's price for an item

Automatically determine the best price for an item

Attach pictures to an item

Save the GPS location of an item

Read product reviews

Query other shopping sites/engines

1.3 changelog

Bugfix/new feature release

ENH user can now clear the cached files

ENH user can now load a barcode image (rather than using the camera)

ENH user can now manually check for new versions (instead of waiting a day)

MOD improved item selection behavior

MOD performance optimizations

FIX email sending issues

FIX OutOfMemory exception when loading larger bitmaps

1.2 changelog

Bugfix/new feature release

ENH can now look up products by ASIN (Amazon product id)

ENH can now email info for multiple products

ENH now saves sorting settings and restores on next start

MOD UI tweaks

MOD improved email formatting

FIX items removed while updating no longer reappear

FIX improved amazon update price handling / net code tweaks

FIX handles non-standard amazon average ratings

FIX Update All behavior

FIX ISBN-10 barcode detection

1.11 changelog

Bugfix/new feature release

ENH AmazonIt! now checks for a newer version, asks the user if they want to download it

ENH added tooltips for the buttons for a better user experience

MOD reworded barcode capture hints

FIX malformed product links

1.1 changelog

Bugfix/new feature release

ENH support for international amazon sites

ENH ability to manually input barcodes (if it has trouble decoding pics)

MOD now displays barcode capture hints

MOD user setting to launch mobile/full product links

MOD now deleting captured barcode pics after use

MOD duplicate items prevention

MOD sort bar now resizes on orientation change

FIX ArgumentException on list update

FIX OutOfMemoryException on bitmap decoding

FIX ArgumentNullException when the product link is launched before amazon info has been fetched

1.0 changelog

Initial release