With an advent of technology, now your smartphone camera are no more than just a point and shoot devices. With right Android app in hand, users can get the most out of their Android Smartphone camera. Here are some ways in which users can get benefit and enjoy the technology with these Android Apps. You will be amazed to know that to what extent you can use your smartphone camera. Take a ride.
Use Your Smartphone Camera As A Note Taker
With Note Taker, Evernote Android app is what came into my mind. Using the same mobile app, users can take a photograph of the note, book or any other piece of document which you want to save for further use. Once done, the picture is saved to your Evernote account, which can be retrieved anytime, anywhere. Users can download and install the Evernote Android app from the Android Market or from it’s official source. The Evernote mobile application is also available for other mobile platforms including iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 too.
Scan Document Using Your Smartphone Camera
Other pretty useful way to use your smartphone camera is to scan documents, but requires a pretty decent camera too. With Cam Scanner – a mobile app, users can scan documents and can use them whenever they want. What’s best about Cam Scanner is, that it improves the camera quality, removes shadows and sharpens the image, using which a user with decent camera in their smartphone can scan documents without having to follow any tantrums. Cam Scanner(available for other mobile platforms too) is the best you can ever get. And yeah it’s free. People looking for an alternative, can try Scan To PDF free.
Scan Business Card With Your Smartphone Camera
Let your smartphone camera feed the business card details in your smartphone. Use an Android app to scan the business cards and feed in details right away. Just take a snap of the business, visiting card with the ScanBizCards Biz Card Reader and let the Android app work for you. Users can review the scan side by side, can edit details if needed. Not only that, users can even add the information as a new contact or update the existing one too.
Smartphone Camera As A Contact Manager
Yep, you read that right, you can use your smartphone camera as a contact manager. Again, worth mentioning, Evernote Hello is the mobile application using which users can remember people they met. At the time of meeting, exchange phone, take a snap and add your details like your name, place where you met. That’s it, Evernote will create a history of the people you’ve met before, using the same you can easily remember. But sorry this time I’ve to disappoint my Android users as Evernote Hello is only available for iPhone users. On top, there’s no alternative available in the Android Market too. iPhone users can download this app from the Apple Store.
Smartphone Camera As a Shopping Companion
Another great way, users with the a smartphone camera can become shop savvy. ShopSavvy is the Android App using which users can grab the best deals in town. With just a simple bar code scanning of the product, users can know the best online deals and the local price for the same. ShopSavvy is available for multiple mobile platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, users can have a look at it via it’s official source. Use this mobile application to know more about it. Another great alternative for Android users is Barcode Scanner.
So these are some Android apps, which sheds a light on some of the hidden features of your smartphone camera. Use them and do share your experience with us.