Smartphones Take a Step Forward with Google
Google have released a new piece of searching wizardry available on phones operated on an Android OS, which are based on a Linux platform leaving iPhone and BlackBerry fans empty handed.
These smartphones have the capability to find information through images and not text reducing the need to type your search, you just simply take a photo. With this new technology, based on searching the comprehensive Google databases, you are able to:
- Scan the street and find out what businesses are available, for example read a review of a restaurant before you step through the door.
- Take a picture of a book and find out where you can buy it, any reviews available and find out more about the author.
- Take an image of a business card and with text recognition technology, save the contacts details to your address book.
The image search works well for some things such as places, artwork and logos, but not so great on things like cars, faces and animals. But these are early days and Google are not ones to sit back and relax after the first release.
It has been confirmed that this new time saving search functionality will eventually be rolled out to other platforms, however Android exclusivity is likely to last a while yet.
Needless to say smartphones are starting to break through as the dominant choice in the market. No longer are they reserved for the keen businessman wanting to be accessible 24/7, but these high tech devices are now so easy to use and cheap to buy, that everybody has the option of upgrading with their next contract.
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