ShopSavvy is one of those apps that, once you’d lived with it on the G1, makes you miss the Android platform if you switch to rival devices. The shopping comparison software is about to get even better, however, with the inclusion of real-time inventory checking for a number of major retailers.
In a nutshell, ShopSavvy allows you to “scan” a barcode on a book, DVD or other item in a store, and search for that product both at online retailers and in nearby bricks & mortar shops. To do that it uses the G1’s integrated GPS, figuring out where you are and which retailers are physically nearby.
“Directing shoppers to local stores is a core feature of ShopSavvy, and being able to present our users with up-to-the-minute, local inventory across hundreds of product categories and merchants adds huge value for our users. Our recent enhancements to ShopSavvy’s location awareness make our new relationship with Krillion even more compelling for ShopSavvy users” Alexander Muse, co-founder, Big in Japan
Now, thanks to a deal with Krillion, ShopSavvy can not only check whether a store usually carries that item but whether it has inventory in stock. We’re not sure exactly how many stores are covered by the new system, but Krillion claim over 40,000 US locations; we’re presuming that means the European version of ShopSavvy won’t have this new functionality.
[via jkOnTheRun]
I hope they keep going. Location-centric feature additions to its price alerts would be what I think when I say "keep going" for one example. A points system. Now not only does it calculate in the price levels I requested alerts on, but it weighs in other factors for alerts, am I close to the near best price? Maybe I want an alert. Am I on vacation (more than 100miles from home) - Maybe I wouldn't like any alerts for local pricing until I return.
Those all sounds like great features to have, but similar to locale any location based service running in the background is going to demolish your battery life.
when ur not home u dont leave your lights on cuz its gunna drain a lot of power and cost u money so u turn them off even though turning them on and off all the time is a pain.
Or a button switch that turns a closet light on when you open the door and turns it back off when you close the door.
You know, so that you don't have to waste 10 seconds groping for the switch every time you go into the closet since you know that it's dark enough in the closet that you're pretty much always going to want the light to come on when you're in there and go off when you're done.
when ur not home u dont leave your lights on cuz its gunna drain a lot of power and cost u money so u turn them off even though turning them on and off all the time is a pain.
i just dont understand why there's not an option to use the old location method. SS devs said they got a lot of complaints about it before but it always worked perfectly for me. at least give it to us as an option