Our beloved Amazon.com has launched their own native iPhone & iPod Touch App. This takes shopping or looking up items at Amazon.com a breeze with your iPhone.
Without further adieu, a few features of the Amazon iPhone App
- On launching the app, you see your wish list and your login for Amazon
- With the Search tab, you can search for anything in Amazon
- Search results are shown as a list in descending order of relevance
- You can see different categories by tapping the ‘By Category’ button
- In the Product page, you can see full product description as well as customer reviews
- You can add products and remove products easily from your shopping cart
Amazon Remember’s
Amazon iPhone App has a cool experimental feature – Amazon Remembers tab. With this feature, you can take a picture of any item and send it over to Amazon. In a few minutes to a few hours, you will get a link to the Amazon product page to that item or something that closely resembles that item.
You can see the picture of our cordless phone. The first one is the one I sent and I received an email notification that a match was found. In about 5 minutes. And it rightly
The best thing is the results are saved in Amazon site so you can later review those at home for further research. This can be very useful when you are out shopping and help you remember to look up this item later.
One caveat with this feature is that the results are returned by humans working in the Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. So the accuracy could be questionable and so is the time period in which you get the results back as this service become popular.
[Obvious plug: We have our own Amazon Store - Shop link at the top, where we feature hand picked deals for iPod Touch & iPhone]
