Amazon.com for The IPhone-Updated And More - Free Radio via AOL Radio
Author: admin // Category: iphone applicationsThanks to Brad Stone at the NY Times for this recent blog post about Amazon’s entry into the iPhone app arena…
Amazon.com Invades the Apple App Store
Amazon.com will join the iPhone frenzy… with a new application available free for download through Apple’s App Store.
The software is relatively straightforward, offering a way for iPhone or iPod Touch owners to browse through all the products offered by Amazon.com, as well as by third-party retailers like Target and Macy’s that make their products available online through Amazon.
There is, however, one unusual and noteworthy aspect of the app called Amazon Remembers, which Amazon is calling “experimental.” The tool lets users take a photograph of any product they see in the real world. The photos are then uploaded to Amazon and turned over to the far-flung freelance workers in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program, who will try to match them with products for sale on Amazon.com. The results will not be instantaneous (between 5 minutes and 24 hours, the company says), but the idea is to entice consumers to buy products from Amazon instead of its offline rivals.
Amazon Remembers is similar to other features Amazon has introduced this year in its continuing effort to filch sales from other Web sites and retailers. TextBuyIt, a mobile messaging service introduced in April, lets people send a text message to Amazon at 262966 with the name of a product or a search term. It then replies with a number of buying options.
Another new feature that Amazon introduced this year, Universal Wish List, is a Web browser toolbar that lets people directly add the products they covet to their Amazon account when they see them on other Web sites.
AOL RADIO- GET RADIO WORLDWIDE - LOCAL CHANNELS AVAILABLE VIA GPS LOCATOR
How cool is this? I recently discovered that AOL Radio is available for the iPhone. I love this feature on my laptop and am glad it is now available for my phone. AOL Radio offers 350 music, sports, talk and news stations and will find local radio stations for you to choose from via your GPS locator or you can listen to channels in far flung places.- whatever suits your fancy.
Watch this You Tube video about this feature and then visit the App Store to download this free app.