I downloaded this after seeing a similar app on my friend's iPhone, and am so disappointed with the Nokia version. With the iPhone app, he launched it, it gave a clear indication on screen where a barcode should be, and we scanned the barcodes of three things on my deskand the app took me straight to reviews online, and purchase opportunities.
Downloaded Point and Find, and:
- It asks me for "Movies" or "Shopping". Huh? Not particularly intuitive if I just want to scan a barcode. So I select shopping and try three different CD barcodes and three different book barcodes. Nothing. Irritatingly, the paid advert works.
- There isn't an indication onscreen of where the barcode should be. I presumed "ensure the barcode is as large in the photo window as possible, but have since seen posts in this forum that say it should be about a third of the width of the photo window?
- Does the iPhone app use some other onlne service to recognise UPC codes? The likelihood that the three items I chose from my desk would be in a database that someone had to actively maintain seems low. Not as low as the likelihood than anything I scan in P&F is recognised, though.
- It keeps defaulting to the wrong access point, which I'm sure doesn't help.
- How about some textual clues onscreen as to what the app is doing?
- The app spends so long trying to scan barcodes that the screen backlight switches off before it successfully scans anything.
Has anyone managed to succesfully scan any of the first ten items they tried?
This app would be so useful if you could scan a bar code of an item you are interested in and e taken to a kelkoo search, or an online review site. That is dependent on it recognising something. Ever.