14 DAY TRIAL // 23half Inc., the Californian company that brought about a month ago its Thrrum MMS Search to Sprint's mobile subscribers, has announced today that the same service is now available for the customers of Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile.
With Thrrum MMS Search, camera phone owners across the US can take snapshots of a text, send the picture(s) to the Thrumm website (as an MMS) and quickly receive back relevant info about the respective text.
Of course, in order to work at its best, the Thrrum MMS Search will need to be used with a camera of (at least) decent performances - auto focus or macro mode are recommended features.
Like in the case of Thrrum MMS Search for Sprint, the service for Verizon and T-Mobile is in the beta version and is being offered free of charge.
"Now, T-Mobile and Verizon wireless subscribers also can point their camera phone at a book, a product label or any printed material, take a picture and send a picture message to get relevant information right on their phone. With Thrrum, any text that you see around you becomes a hyperlink that can be clicked upon with your camera phone," says K. Gopalakrishnan, Chief Executive Officer of 23half.
According to a survey made by ABI Research, there will be more than 1 billion camera phones sold in 2010, with a good camera being among the primary features that the users will want to be included in a cell phone.
Among Verizon's handsets that have a camera of at least 2 Megapixels, there are the following models: LG Venus, LG Voyager, LG Decoy, the newly-released LG Chocolate 3, Samsung Glyde, Motorola MOTORAZR V9m, Samsung FlipShot and the high-end LG Dare.
T-Mobile's 2 Megapixel camera handsets include Sidekick LX, Sidekick Slide, T-Mobile Wing, BlackBerry Pearl 8120, Motorola RAZR2 and the new music-oriented Motorola ROKR E8.