| There are a number of great iPhone and Android | | | | the iPhone and Blackberry as well. ShopSavvy also |
| barcode scanners on the market that will help you find | | | | has product reviews, and instead of a shopping list it |
| the best deals and prices on products you are | | | | features Wish Lists. Missing, however, is the |
| contemplating purchasing. If you have the product in | | | | straight-to-TiVo feature available on Red Laser. The |
| front of you at a Best Buy or other retail store, you | | | | key component of ShopSavvy is its local price |
| can line up your camera with the barcode on the | | | | comparison, which will help if you prefer buying |
| product and take a picture. When the application | | | | on-location. Although this feature is limited with its |
| processes the picture you will be able to see if the | | | | inventory of local products, it is a good start in the field. |
| store is offering a good deal or if there are better | | | | Finally, if at the time of scanning you don't see the |
| prices online. The possibilities are endless for syncing | | | | price you want to pay, you can set a price alert that |
| online services with these mobile barcode scanners. | | | | will let you know when an online or local product |
| One such application is Red Laser, which comes | | | | comes up with a lower price. |
| available for the Apple iPhone. In addition to the online | | | | A free service that will help with local comparison |
| comparison shopping the barcode scanners usually | | | | shopping and finding the best deals on local products |
| provide, Red Laser has several other helpful features. | | | | and services is Text-Savings. This service can be |
| When you scan a movie at the store, not only will the | | | | used on any mobile device capable of sending and |
| app find a copy of it online, it will allow you to send the | | | | receiving text messages (SMS). Available is a large |
| whole film to your TiVo. Another feature that the Red | | | | inventory of items provided by local businesses, and an |
| Laser provides is adding products to your shopping list. | | | | advantage is that a barcode is not necessary to |
| Anytime you throw away a used bottle of milk, you | | | | search for the item. Foods and services such as pizza |
| can scan the barcode and add milk to your shopping | | | | and hair cuts don't even use barcodes! To use |
| list to remind you what to buy on your next grocery | | | | Text-Savings' free service, send a text message to |
| store trip. | | | | 52771 with your query (e.g. pizza) and zip code. Finding |
| A popular application on Android phones is | | | | good deals on-the-go no longer has to be exclusive to |
| ShopSavvy, which can be downloaded for free for | | | | mobile phones that offer applications. |