Many of you have been waiting for this for a long time. Well, now you have it. Starting today, you can upload to scanR on the web. Just sign into scanR and click the shiny new "Upload" button.
Here's a screenshot:
In the past, if you wanted to upload a photo from your computer, you had to send it as an attachment in email. Now, in a couple of clicks you can quickly upload and scan up to 20 photos at a time!
Wow! Sony Ericsson managed to get an 8 megapixel camera into a small mobile phone. Take a look.
For scanR, this will represent the first camera phone that can capture letter and A4 sized documents at the same resolution as desktop scanners. A 3 megapixel camera can scan documents at around 200 dpi while an 8 megapixel camera can produce 300 dpi scans. While this number is only 50% greater, the resulting difference in document quality is substantial. This means that scanR is inching closer to our goal of replacing the copier and scanner for everyday tasks.
This phone is shipping in Q4 2008 and we can't wait to get our hands on it.
scanR continues to grow in the enterprise.
About a year ago, we analyzed how the world's largest companies were using scanR. The latest analysis shows that scanR is used by 9 of the 10 largest companies in the world, 66% of the top 50, and 35% of the Fortune 500!
With users in more than 200 countries, it is a big challenge to support the right payment options for anyone that wants to purchase scanR. scanR offered global credit card payments early in the year but many people around the world don't have credit cards or want to purchase mobile services with them.
Now, many people can purchase a scanR Pro subscription on their phone and pay on their phone bill. scanR currently supports mobile billing on these carriers:
O2 UK
3 Denmark
3 Ireland
3 Sweden
Celcom
DiGi
DNA Finland
DTAC
E Plus Germany
Elisa Estonia
Elisa Finland
EMT Estonia
KPN Mobile Netherlands
Maxis
Meteor Ireland
MobileOne
Movistar
Netcom Norway
O2 Germany
O2 Ireland
Optimus Portugal
Optus
Orange Netherlands
Orange Spain
Orange UK
Proximus Belgium
Singtel
Starhub
Swisscom
TDC Mobil Denmark
Tele2 Estonia
Tele2 Sweden
Telenor Denmark
Telenor Norway
Telenor Sweden
Telia Denmark
TeliaSonera Finland
TeliaSonera Sweden
Telstra
Three UK
TMN Portugal
T-Mobile Germany
T-Mobile Netherlands
T-Mobile UK
Virgin Mobile UK
Vodafone Australia
Vodafone Germany
Vodafone Ireland
Vodafone Netherlands
Vodafone Portugal
Vodafone Spain
Vodafone UK
To purchase a subscription on your phone, sign in at m.scanr.com and select the Buy scanR link. Just select one of the subscription options, choose a payment method and follow the instructions.
Depending on your mobile phone, you can pay on your mobile bill, with a credit card, or using PayPal. Some options are not available on all phones.
Here were the top 20 phones used to create new accounts with scanR in April 2008:
Worldwide, excluding Japan
BerryReview has created a contest for your best ideas for using scanR with a BlackBerry. The winner will receive a free 1-year subscription to scanR.
Capture meeting notes and whiteboards with your BlackBerry
Now anyone with a BlackBerry Curve or Pearl can quickly capture notes and whiteboards in seconds. scanR chose BlackBerry to showcase scanR Mobile v2, its new and innovative mobile application design, which makes it even easier to capture information on the run. scanR Mobile for BlackBerry has many improvements including accessing the camera directly, enabling sharing from the address book, allowing quick access to view scans on the scanR website, and incorporating a simple step by step tutorial for first time users. These new capabilities were designed to reduce the time needed to capture and share new scans, and to help people learn to use scanR. Now people can put their Blackberry smartphones to work scanning, copying and faxing!
Take a look at some of the main screens in scanR Mobile for BlackBerry.
Welcome
Main menu
Camera
Result on mobile website
Until last year, Blackberry smartphones were not available with cameras. But a lot has changed in the last 12 months, which illustrates just how quickly and profoundly the mobile market shifts. The biggest selling Blackberry smartphones are the Curve and the Pearl models, both of which now offer up to 2 megapixel cameras. It was a big day for scanR when these new models were announced. They signaled the complete acceptance of cameras across all phone segments, from the low-end all the way up to business devices. As with the iPhone, we are eagerly awaiting the arrival of even better cameras on Blackberry smartphones. Better cameras enable the full suite of scanR services, allowing people to scan business cards, office documents, magazines and books. For now, your BlackBerry Curve or Pearl is perfectly suited to capture your notes and whiteboards on the go.
Get scanR Mobile for Blackberry today by browsing to m.scanR.com on your phone or www.scanR.com on your computer.
Now you can copy your documents and whiteboards using your camera phone, then share them online with your friends and co-workers. Many people already use scanR to quickly copy and distribute handwritten notes without rewriting them in email. Until now scanR only sent PDF files. This made it more difficult to collaborate with your team. With online sharing, scanR lets you invite people to view the scanned image online in addition to downloading it as a PDF, text file or image.
Shared scans can be viewed on
computers or mobile phones. For people who need to access their
information while away from their computer or don't have regular access
to computers, scanR can send invitations to view scans in SMS text
messages. This enables people you invite to view your documents on
their phone, just by clicking a link in the message from scanR. On
phones, the link will open the scan on on the scanR mobile webiste. Of
course, you can invite and view shared scans on computers as well.
Here's an overview of online sharing from the scanR mobile website. From the home page, find the scan you want to share. Any you shared previously will display "Shared" and any shared with you with display the owners name. Click the image to view the details.
From the detailed view, you can download the image to your phone or share it with someone. Click the Share link to share this page.
Here you can enter an email address or a mobile phone number. scanR will send invitations in email or as an SMS text message nearly anywhere in the world.
Once the person you invited views the scan, you will see a their name appear in your list of shared scans. Clicking a name on this list will show all scans shared between you and them.
Sharing is available on your phone at m.scanR.com and on your computer at www.scanR.com.
scanR won the 2008 MCPC Mobile Consumer Award!
The MCPC (Mobile Computing Promotion Consortium) is a Japanese industry group consisting of 163 corporations, including mobile operators, hardware manufacturers, software developers, and systems integrators. It is a big honor of a US based company like scanR to win this prize.
According to the MCPC, scanR won the prize because of its advanced technology that enables its scan, copy and fax service for mobile phones, and its applicability to a broad range of business users and consumers.
Check out some of the scanR presentation and demonstration at the MCPC award banquet.
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