Jun
10
ShopSavvy for iPhone Update
We know there is a huge demand for the ShopSavvy experience on the iPhone and we have been working on an iPhone release for some time. Our biggest hurdle has been to perfect barcode scanning using a fixed focal length camera. We are very close to finalizing our solution called Meatloaf. We looked at various ’server-side’ options – i.e. taking a photo, sending it to our servers here in Dallas and then sending the results back to the phone – but we determined that the ‘live’ scanning that our Android users are accustom to was the right direction. We had to come up with a solution that was 100% accurate and FAST – we call the project Meatloaf.
Many of you have surmized (via email and even on TechCrunch) that we will be able to launch on the iPhone 3Gs since it has a variable focal length camera (10cm). While our current solution would work fine on all of the new iPhones it would leave the 40,000,000 existing devices (Apple’s number, not mine) without a solution. Meatloaf; however, will work on both fixed and variable focus cameras – 100% coverage on all current and legacy devices.
Meatloaf will be even more important on Android because, as some of you likely noted, more and more Android handsets will ship with fixed focal length cameras. For example, AT&T is launching an Android phone called the HTC Lancaster which sports a ‘2 mega-pixel fixed focus camera’. Ouch. Any Android application that relies on the ‘traditional’ camera we have come to know and love on the G1 and Magic will be DOA on the AT&T devices. AT&T is the second-largest mobile provider in the US and the largest smartphone provider – your Android app needs to work on their phones, period.
Along with an updated solution for barcode scanning, the iPhone version of ShopSavvy will get a complete UI makeover. Smartphones are not equal and they each have strengths and weaknesses. Porting ShopSavvy over from Android would leave a lot to be desired so we spent a LOT of time making sure that ShopSavvy took advantage of all of the iPhone features and UI users have come to know and love. ShopSavvy is still ShopSavvy, but it is optimized for iPhone. Make sense? Here is a screenshot to give you an idea:
Thank you for the update! I’m getting the iPhone 3GS day 1 and would love to have ShopSaavy, an app so many Android users can’t live without. Please make it available very very soon!
Also, great job on the make over. It definitely looks like an iPhone app should, and I really like the 4 button dock. Great work.
Hurry!
Comment by Jonathan — June 10, 2009 @ 6:22 pm
I am getting a 3GS tomorrow and will be waiting even more anxiously for this app.
Comment by Sandeep — June 18, 2009 @ 11:12 pm
yes please hurry with this app please!!!!!
Comment by bill — June 25, 2009 @ 11:12 pm
Wow, this shop savvy will be awesome. Maybe you can do a meatloaf for the 3G and a savvy for the 3GS?
Comment by Nigel — June 26, 2009 @ 1:11 am
Please put me on the list – email me when your app is read for the existing IPhone users. It is much anticipated!
Comment by Marcie — June 26, 2009 @ 8:21 am
REALLY looking forward to this, Alex. It’s gonna rock faces off for sure!
Comment by Charles Williams — June 28, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
Hi this sounds awesome. Please put me on the list to email when this app comes out.
Thanks
Comment by Jenene — June 30, 2009 @ 6:04 pm
Please alert me when available. I have the latest iphone 3gs
Comment by Jeff Gray — July 4, 2009 @ 11:06 am
Wow, can’t wait to have ShopSavvy for my iPhone 3GS. Please alert me when it’s available. Ta.
Comment by Anna — July 6, 2009 @ 9:59 am
Please alert me when available.
Comment by ilia — July 6, 2009 @ 4:40 pm
….I want ShopSavvy for my iPhone…when can I get it?
Comment by donzilla — July 12, 2009 @ 9:35 am
I too would be very interested in being alerted when the iphone version is available, specifically the “savvy” version for the 3GS. Any progress towards that goal yet?
Comment by peter — July 16, 2009 @ 11:58 am
Any hope of a version of ShopSavvy for the palm pre?
Comment by peter — July 16, 2009 @ 12:05 pm
Are you done yet… Are you done yet… Are you done yet… Are you done yet… Are you done yet… Hmmm, if this doesn’t work for my four year old, why would it work for me?
Comment by Kevin — July 17, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
If they open up the SDK to camera function we will.
Comment by admin — July 21, 2009 @ 10:36 am
Please let me know when it’s out if possible please please please
Comment by barry — July 26, 2009 @ 2:06 pm
Looking forward to this new app!
Comment by brenda — July 28, 2009 @ 7:58 pm
When vendors realize how many cell phone users are getting this app, they will be better at pricing their products.
Don’t you think?
Comment by Bob Reed — July 29, 2009 @ 8:31 am
Please let me know when it comes out for the Iphone 3Gs
Thanks
Comment by Bill Rhinehart — August 9, 2009 @ 1:06 pm
Please let me know when this app comes out. I’ve had my 3gs for about a month now and love it.
Comment by Leo — August 21, 2009 @ 5:27 pm
Love this, great blog, thanks.
Comment by Free Mobile Phone — September 13, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
i’m gonna stick a bookmark link on my iphone home screen
thanks
Comment by sim free iphone — October 12, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
Please place me on your e-mail list to be notified when the shopsavvy app becomes available for the iPhone 3GS really looking forward to the release.
Comment by Terry — October 18, 2009 @ 1:42 am
Any update on this app for the iPhone?
Comment by Mark — November 6, 2009 @ 11:34 am
Please email me when the shop savvy come in. Can hardly wait.
Comment by Blanche Connelly — November 16, 2009 @ 3:17 pm