bar code reader

'uses' are relative... download it and have a play and see how useful you find it...

PimpSC has a barcode on here under his handle... you could use the scanner and scan that to read his message...

Also, under the battery theres a code you could scan if you had 2 N95's! :tongue:

Other than that......

Allegedly these barcodes are very popular in Japan, and they can be used to encode URLs and such to save you having to type them in to the web browser - but unless the URL is very long (probably too long to fit in a barcode), I would have thought that the time saving is pretty much nonexistent.

never found this of use or had it to actually work ... bit of a gimmic if you ask me. Its apps like these I would like to uninstall from my n95 to free up memory ... but it wont allow me too 😡

yeah, unless theres some secret underworld that conducts business thru barcodes, its not that much use to the regular Joe.

nudda wrote:never found this of use or had it to actually work ... bit of a gimmic if you ask me. Its apps like these I would like to uninstall from my n95 to free up memory ... but it wont allow me too 😡

Well, it won't allow you to remove the application because it's in ROM, so you wouldn't gain any memory by deleting it, either.

As far as being useful, it's one of those chicken and egg things. If no-one's encoding their URL as a bar-code (which I think would be the main use), then there's not much point having a bar-code reader. In somewhere like Japan, where entering URLs on a phone may be trickier, it may make more sense.

thanx guys yeh i dont suppose its of any use

Woo, recursion.

robgreb wrote:

Woo, recursion.

round and round and round and round

But this codes are getting more popular day by day.

Everyday I see more and more people using them.

Especially in blogs and forums.

M|K-3 wrote:But this codes are getting more popular day by day.

Everyday I see more and more people using them.

Especially in blogs and forums.

yeah, but thats only because everyone has N-series phones and the barcodes are a new idea! :tongue:

Mine never works anyway - i think ive only ever been able to get something to scan once before lol 😊

I personally find the barcode app very useful. I have bookmarked the nokia codes page (mobilecodes.nokia.com).
Every time I need to write a big url or just to transfer text in the mobile, I create a barcode and I read it with the app in just few seconds.

Wookie-HTID wrote:Mine never works anyway - i think ive only ever been able to get something to scan once before lol 😊

Yeah, I've noticed that, I can often scan once, and everything else after that just doesn't work. I've tried both UPCode and Kaywa.

Do you have a CRT or TFT monitor? OR do you print it each time?
I've found (with the barcode plugin for firefox) that it doesn't read very well off my CRT

Try this: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

I think a lot of people have trouble with the bigger codes as the camera has trouble focussing it in high enough quality. Small and medium ones (enough for a very long url) work fine. I find these a very handy way to get a url onto the phone an save typing it (imaging typing the url to a particular forum post!) and especially for podcasts which are often quite obscure urls. With this and the copy and paste feature you save a lot of thumb work.

3Shirts wrote:Try this: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

I think a lot of people have trouble with the bigger codes as the camera has trouble focussing it in high enough quality. Small and medium ones (enough for a very long url) work fine. I find these a very handy way to get a url onto the phone an save typing it (imaging typing the url to a particular forum post!) and especially for podcasts which are often quite obscure urls. With this and the copy and paste feature you save a lot of thumb work.

the smaller ones seem the hardest to get... like the one on the handfree cable... thats impossible for me to read with the inbuilt barcode util but upcode reads it...

If any program is gonna be of use, it could do with reading all sizes and more types.