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Amazon announce iPhone shopping app!

Frequent visitors to this blog will know we’re not shy to cover new apps for the iPhone and the reason for this is simple; many of them are absolutely brilliant! Whether it’s games you’re after or the latest navigation software, it seems the iPhone has it all. Not short of a few shopping apps, the iPhone was missing one, rather notable name from its roster; Amazon. Well fear not, the online giant has today announced an iPhone app to aid all those online purchases. Want to know what to expect when the app hits the App Store? Read on…

Set to launch before Christmas, the Amazon App connects customers to their Amazon.co.uk account and favourite shopping features such as 1-click purchasing, the ability to track packages and edit orders using the ‘Your Account’ portal, receive recommendations based on previous purchases, check out customer reviews and even access and update their wish list. Most intriguing of all, the Amazon iPhone App includes the new Amazon Remembers feature which uses the iPhone’s camera to find and remember items for sale on Amazon. Photos taken by the camera are automatically uploaded to Amazon which will then search for similar products. Once the item has been found the users will be able to perform all the normal Amazon activities (buy, add to wish list, compare prices on Market Place etc.). It works in a similar way to the Android Bar code scanner. The drawback is that it will only find the product on Amazon rather than comparing prices from various sites. The plus is that all you have to do is take a photo of the product rather than fiddling around trying to scan a bar code.

The app will be available to download free from the app store in early November.