(keitai-l) Re: QP? mobile-camera-readable barcode-type thing

Here is a direct link to a page with a picture of the QR barcode. It is 
characterised by 3 registration squares in top & bottom left, top right 
corners.

http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/qrfeature.html

I think only DoCoMo SH505 & F505 have the in-built reader. SH is native, 
F505 is a Java appli. The F is better since it captures a mono image, unlike 
the Sharp - sometimes colour surround confounds the reader. From Vodafone, I 
think only SH-53 has the reader (might be others), but to me it is a bit 
braindead since you cannot read & open URLs encoded in the barcode directly 
in Vodafone unlike DoCoMo (I think Vodafone ought to correct this). I 
believe all 505iS's will have the barcode reader as standard. In my mind, 
avoiding typing URLs & mail addresses is probably the most useful mobile 
applications of these barcodes. However I wonder how long barcodes will be 
used for these purposes, since already the SH505 has shown excellent OCR of 
typed web/mail addresses, so perhaps OCR will just be easier (no need to 
create/print the barcode).

Michael.

>From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
>Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>Subject: (keitai-l) Re: QP?  mobile-camera-readable barcode-type thing
>Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:41:08 +0900 (JST)
>
>On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Florian Goersdorf wrote:
>
> > i am just curious, but could you provide a photo of that QP thing to
> > see how it looks?
>
>If you can't get a picture, just order something shipped to you via UPS,
>and look at the 2-D bar code on the package when you receive it. 2-D bar
>codes have been in use for many years now, actually.

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