henry copeland:
Amazon & ATT say people will pick phone based on craving to shop more at Amazon -- joke? pllqt.it/fjdNy2
The handset’s image-recognition technology, called “Firefly,” will let the device figure out what a customer is looking at so the user can buy the item online. It can recognize more than 100 million items, with consumers simply taking a picture of a book, DVD or other product to link back to Amazon’s store. The phone will also have audio recognition for movies and TV shows, which Amazon also carries. “I’m going to buy a whole lot more things with this technology than I ever have before,” said Ralph De La Vega, head of AT&T’s mobile business, at the event.
- www.bloomberg.com