SnapTell application review

SnapTell is an amazing concept, simply said, it takes a photo of a Book, DVD Cover, CD Cover or a Video Game.  This photo is then sent to SnapTell for a quick analyse and if a successful match is made you are presented with a plethora of shopping options that give you an upper hand in your purchasing decisions.

You could be in your local brick and mortar book store, find the latest Stephen King novel, and within 10 seconds have an entire info set that gives you many options to purchase the item at a better price, or in theory realise you have a good deal and snap it up.

I tested photographing 10 items and the only item that returned a null value was a Gary Kyle and the No Standards Band's new CD Turn This Life Around, but that could be attributed to it being a new release.

The application could not be easier to use.  You have two options, pull a photo from your camera roll, or take a snap shot to use right away.  Your snapped recognition samples are stored for future reference and results usually only take less than 10 seconds.

Once SnapTell recognizes your photo, it carries out an intensive price lookup and you will be presented with an online price,  local store prices, and a list of where each of these reside.  Under the prices you will find all the data mining that SnapTell has pulled :

Google prices and reviews

Wikipedia

eBay

half.com

Barnes and Noble

Yahoo! Results

The application in its simplicity has only 1 minor bug that I believe is less SnapTell's issue but more the call out to the iPhones camera mode module.  Once in a while after taking a photo SnapTell will lock up and exit back to the SpringBoard.