And? What kind of boast is that? Do you want applause for being superior because you don't try things, or aren't curious, or diss anything you don't already use?
I see HP's WebOS tablet is going to have a "touch your WebOS phone to your tablet to transfer information between them, such as your currently open web page".
Well, you can do that right now - add this bookmarklet to your browser: http://code.google.com/p/qrbookmarklet/ and click it to get a QR code popping up encoding the URL of the page you are on. Scan it on your phone and you can quickly take the page you are on to your mobile in a cross platform way, without needing to dropbox or email the URL to yourself.
Just like HP is advertising with their WebOS tablet and WebOS phones, only without being WebOS only.
(The bookmarklet works in mobile safari so you could go the other way, if you could find a desktop reader).
I'd also really like it if there was a way to walk up to a bus stop, point my phone at it and have my phone know which precise bus stop I am at and then check on the net and say which busses are due next. Also trains.
Also, anything with a phone number such as a taxi or pizza place flyer could have a useful QR code with a vcard contact on it.
QR codes are not just a "learn more" marketing scam for URLs on adverts, it's a no-typing way of getting information into mobile devices.
A while aback people, like you, said very similar thing when displaying your www addresses started getting popular. "I have never felt the need to type in an URL to "learn more""
I'm real fucking glad those people were ignored. I hope you are too.
A number of differences. 1) I don't recall all that many people complaining about URLs, not like people ignoring QR codes. 2) I don't actually type URLs in that frequently, I search. 3) I can see a URL and remember it to visit later. Good luck seeing a QR tag in the subway and reconstructing when you get home. 4) The kicker. Can you name a company that based their entire business model on putting URLs on posters?
This allows someone to grab their mobile phone, scan the QR code and save the information to their address book. Now if they lose the card they still have my information on their smartphone.
I handed out many such cards at Black Hat and DefCon and they were a huge success with people.
I see HP's WebOS tablet is going to have a "touch your WebOS phone to your tablet to transfer information between them, such as your currently open web page".
Well, you can do that right now - add this bookmarklet to your browser: http://code.google.com/p/qrbookmarklet/ and click it to get a QR code popping up encoding the URL of the page you are on. Scan it on your phone and you can quickly take the page you are on to your mobile in a cross platform way, without needing to dropbox or email the URL to yourself.
Just like HP is advertising with their WebOS tablet and WebOS phones, only without being WebOS only.
(The bookmarklet works in mobile safari so you could go the other way, if you could find a desktop reader).
I'd also really like it if there was a way to walk up to a bus stop, point my phone at it and have my phone know which precise bus stop I am at and then check on the net and say which busses are due next. Also trains.
Also, anything with a phone number such as a taxi or pizza place flyer could have a useful QR code with a vcard contact on it.
QR codes are not just a "learn more" marketing scam for URLs on adverts, it's a no-typing way of getting information into mobile devices.