Amazon Application is Ready For the Holidays on the iPhone Platform

by Adam Yan on December 7, 2008 at 11:33 pm

If you’re too busy out and about these holidays and don’t have time for some online Christmas shopping, Amazon has you covered! They recently released their Amazon Mobile App which allows users to buy objects online from them. It has everything of the mobile internet site has plus more. An interesting feature is that you can take a picture of an item you are looking for and send it through the application and it would try to match the item to one of it’s own and bring you back the description, price and other info about that product. It seems neat!

For a more detailed description, here’s its full description:

The Amazon app allows iPhone and iPod touch owners to very quickly search, compare prices, read reviews, and make purchases on Amazon.com using a simple, yet elegant, interface. Amazon customers have full access to their existing cart, wish lists, payment and shipping options, order history, 1-Click(TM) settings, and Prime membership benefits. All purchases made on Amazon Mobile are routed through Amazon’s secure servers just as they are on the web.
The Amazon app also includes a new experimental feature called Amazon Remembers that allows you to use the camera on your iPhone to create a visual list of things you want to remember while out-and-about. The photos you take from the app are stored on both the Amazon Mobile app and Amazon’s website. If the item you want to remember is a product, Amazon Remembers will even try to find an product similar to your photo for sale on the web. If we do, we’ll send you an e-mail alert and post the result along with the photo.
Amazon Mobile is great for:
* Buying the sequel to a favorite book while waiting for an appointment
* Comparing prices on Amazon and 9000 other merchants to those in the retail store you are visiting
* Purchasing and gift wrapping your holiday gifts
* Browsing product images and reading customer reviews while on the bus or train
* Tracking the status of a recently-placed order when you’re away from your computer
* Seeing if Amazon Remembers can find a pair of shoes for sale like the one the person sitting next to you is wearing

You can get this app through iTunes App Store here.

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