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GoCart is now ShopSavvy!

In preparation for the ‘rumored’ launch of the Android phone next month, we are changing the name of GoCart to ShopSavvy™.  After hundreds of focus groups and consumer study we have decided that ShopSavvy™ better describes the value of our application (just kidding about the focus groups and study).

ShopSavvy™ was named one of 10 winners among nearly 1,800 entries in the Google Challenge, a contest to build mobile-phone applications for the Android operating system.  Big in Japan was awarded a $275,000 prize by Google for its winning application, a personal shopping assistant for Android-based phones.

ShopSavvy enables consumers to comparison shop on the go, simply by scanning any product’s barcode using the phone’s built-in camera.  With this information, ShopSavvy searches the Web for the best prices on the product, displaying the lowest prices online as well as at nearby brick-and-mortar retailers.  ShopSavvy looks up product reviews to further assist with purchase decisions.

ShopSavvy will be available to consumers through Google’s Android Market when the first Android-powered handsets are introduced commercially later this year.  You can view a ShopSavvy (using GoCart name) demo here:

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Big in Japan builds cool applications for mobile devices, including Apple’s award winning iPhone and Google’s open source Android platform, think of us as the mobile idea factory. Our most popular application is ShopSavvy.

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