If you’d asked the developers at Big in Japan if they were making a version of their popular ShopSavvy app for webOS, they’d tell you that they wished they could. If you asked them this week, however, you’d be happy to hear that not only they now can, but they intend to do so. In a response on the Get Satisfaction boards, Big in Japan developer Alexander Muse posted the following just a few days ago:
"We have confirmed we can build a ShopSavvy version for the Pre. Now we just need some time to build it."
Not familiar with ShopSavvy? It’s an app that lets you, well, be a savvy shopper. With ShopSavvy you take a picture of a product’s bar code, ShopSavvy scans it and returns pricing for that same product at both online and local stores. Pretty simple and straightforward, but still incredibly useful. And popular, on Android, iPhone, and Symbian S60. Check out the demo video above – yeah, it’s Android, but at the very least you can see how it works.
Thanks to jpgiv for the tip!