Price Check

by Amazon.com

Product Details

• ASIN: B005QTZSRA
• Original Release Date: November 15, 2011
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 30, 2011
Rated: Guidance Suggested This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (129 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,526 Free in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Free in Appstore for Android)
  • #20 in Appstore for Android > Shopping

Product Features

• Scan a barcode, snap a picture, or say or type a product name to check prices instantly on millions of products
• Find the best prices from Amazon.com and its millions of online merchants
• Share in-store prices with us to help ensure our prices remain competitive for our customers
• Access product details, read customer reviews and ratings across all categories of products
• Share product links with friends via Twitter, Facebook, text message, or e-mail link
• Buy with confidence and complete a secure purchase directly from the app

Technical Details

• Size: 3.1MB
• Version: 1.2
• Developed By: Amazon.com (Privacy Policy )
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Read only access to phone state
  • Required to be able to access the camera device
  • Open network sockets
  • Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
  • Access the vibration feature
  • Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location
  • Access information about networks
  • Record audio
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.1
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 30 seconds

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

67 of 73 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Functional and very useful. November 15, 2011

By Neoprimal

I'm using a myTouch 4G Slide and an A500 Iconia Tablet. I have both the Amazon Mobile app (Amazon Shopping) and the Price Check app installed on my phone but only the Amazon Mobile app on the tablet, for now.

The Price Check app currently mirrors the functionality of the Amazon Mobile App. They seem to be no different and practically identical apart from having the 3 buttons in the GUI and more specifically a dedicated voice button (though you could always search a product through voice in the Amazon Mobile app if you have a keyboard with a voice button anyway, so the functionality is still identical).

Many folks are curious as to why Amazon has released a separate and standalone price checking app. I have a theory.

I suspect the Amazon Mobile app will be changed in a few days to remove camera functionality. The Kindle Fire is being released soon and does not have a camera. That being said, The Kindle Fire's dev. portal states that apps should adhere to relying on the hardware in the Kindle Fire. Amazon's Mobile app currently as it is, would need to access camera hardware to 'scan and snap' products. Amazon would therefore need to either make a separate app for the Kindle Fire or change their own app to not rely on camera functionality. So we end up with a standalone app to replace this functionality for all other devices (with a camera) which is for all intents and purposes functionally a carbon copy of the App we've all been using.

It could also be possible that they simply want the price checking capability to be at the forefront of the app. Some people don't know that the current Amazon Mobile app has this capability built in. Making a separate app would put the focus on this function both through its name as well as it's GUI. In any event, they've killed 2 birds with 1 stone.
Instead of making a new Kindle Fire Amazon app which doesn't rely on the camera, they simply make a new general Android app which does AND shifts the focus toward this functionality, all while being the same old Amazon Mobile app.

Either way, you can do everything on the Amazon Mobile app that you can in the Price Check by Amazon app and vice versa as of 11/15/2011. This may change. You really don't need both right now though you may want to keep the Price Check app on your Android device vs. the Amazon Mobile app (as I mentioned, I suspect it will be changed to remove these functions soon).

To those users reporting incorrect scans, etc. Try scanning a few times. Phone cameras are of different quality; every scan may not be a perfect scan especially when it comes to sub par camera performance.
Every scan I've made has returned the correct product information so I don't think the app is to blame.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars The idea is better than the app. December 3, 2011

By Dr. Researcher

Amazon Verified Purchase

This is a great idea, but the app doesn't give you the same number of results when scanning or taking pictures. I use the original Amazon app and type or speak it in if I want more results .

57 of 67 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Functional, but why standalone November 15, 2011

By ChrisH

Amazon Verified Purchase

The app appears functional and works well on my HTC Inspire 4g. I do, however, seriously question this as a standalone app as opposed to just placing it's functionality in the Amazon shopping app. If they insist on it being stand-alone, it should at least communicate with the other Amazon apps. Having to enter my username and password every time in every one of their apps is tiresome. Let me save my password, or better yet, give a mobile only pin like paypal.