Things meet ready on effort more interesting, as Microsoft has meet declared the start of its first-ever app for the Android platform.  Yes, that’s Google’s Android platform.  Dubbed Tag, it’s kindred to the Microsoft’s iPhone app of the aforementioned name, and lets you ingest your phone as a ambulatory barcode reader.

Tag is acquirable play today as a liberated download from the Android Market (I’d be gift it a go, if it were not for whatever unification problems on the phone).  To ingest the app, you’re questionable to pore your smartphone’s camera at a attach (a small edition of the QRCode), verify a picture, and the Tag information module then travel to see it.  First thought?  We already hit a evenhandedly effective barcode detector app for Android.

This is important to state for the think that Android is Microsoft’s candid contender in the ambulatory operative grouping arena.  However, sight as Microsoft has ingrained Tag with the BlackBerry, Symbian, J2ME (Java), and modify iPhone platforms, they ostensibly hit no qualms on investment another competing platforms to intend their profession across.

[via Techcrunch]

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