RedLaser (an application that scans the barcode of a product and then searches online for that product and it’s prices) is not a new application it has been in both the App Store and the jailbreak community for a while now however, the App Store version of the application recently received an update. The update was in review for quite some time and finally made it through the approval process. Version 2.2.0 of the app drastically improves RedLaster’s performance making it as good as the jailbroke version! Actually, with a few of the new features, I would say it is now better than the jailbroke version of the app.

The new features of version 2.2.0 include:
✓ Dramatically improved accuracy
✓ Faster scanning
✓ Realtime EAN support
✓ Realtime UPC-E support
✓ Improved Amazon search
✓ Improved Google search in Europe
✓ Titles for many more products
✓ “Clear” option
✓ Email includes barcode number attachment
✓ See details without exiting app
✓ Disable auto-search option
✓ Initiate scan from website (advanced)

App Store Description:
RedLaser ―― Impossibly accurate barcode scanning.
✓ Shop smarter. RedLaser searches for low online prices for millions of products from thousands of retailers using Google Product Search and Amazon (NEW!).
✓ Scan faster. Even without autofocus! RedLaser uses state-of-the-art barcode recognition that can read virtually any product barcode. Works great on the first-gen, 3G, and 3GS!
● Features ●
✓ Scans UPC, EAN, and UPC-E (NEW) barcodes!
✓ Finds prices using Google Product Search, and Amazon (NEW)
✓ Email a list of products
✓ Send barcodes as email attachment (NEW) — Great for inventory!
✓ Search ANY website using a custom URL (How-To coming soon, NEW!)
✓ Automatic search localization for USD, EUR, and GBP, as well as Amazon (.com/.co.uk/.de/.co.jp/.fr/.ca/.cn) autoselection (NEW!)

This is overall, a seriously cool application… it even has a cool sound affect. Once you start scanning, you wont be able to stop until you have scanned everything in sight!
Remember, you can go into the stock Settings application and change quite a few settings for RedLaser including the currency (USD, GBP and EUR), Amazon Search Results (Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United Stater) and turn the Automatic Search on/off.

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