Friday, November 26, 2010

Easiest QR Code Application is Google Goggles

The Best QR Code App (or at least the easiest, available, and multipurpose QR Code reader is Google Goggles.
Google Goggles App
 I have 5 QR code readers on my phone and under different light or after too many cups of coffee, each reader has a time and place when it works perfectly.  The new BeeTag app update has made great improvements for the mobile 2D barcode reader, but every once in awhile it struggles. 

Just out of curiosity, I tried to scan a QR Code from the black friday Best Buy ad with the google app on the new G2 Tmobile phone I have as a loaner to demo and within a few scans of the image it recognized it as a qr code and let me follow the URL to the ad online (it also gave me the option of viewing text for QR codes that are used to embed contact info or other data).    For those that don't want ANOTHER app on their phone, using google goggles as a QR code reader is a perfect solution.

iPhone users, you can also you the google app with the new image search function to scan QR codes.  This works almost exactly like google goggles, only with different scanning animation.    

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