| August 28, 2008 Use your cell phone to find the best deals
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(Peter Howe, NECN) - Maybe you've been at the mall, shopping for a camera or something else and wondered, is there some place I could get a better deal? Well now here comes a new way to find out. Your cell phone.
We do quick look ups across 30 thousand stores online to help you decide whether to buy it or wait until you get home and buy it online
Pongr's in Boston, it keeps tabs on the prices of 40 million products. Here's how you use it.
When you're shopping, find the product's 10-digit UPC number.
Text that number to 74677 Or email it to ping at Pongr.com.
They send you back other stores' and website's price for the same item
And soon there's an advanced i-phone application.
It's coming in mid-September and we got an advance peak.
Let's say you're buying a videogame or movie, like rendition. Using your i-phone
And transmit it to Pongr heir computers decode the image and figure out you're trying to buy rendition. The send back prices.
Amazon’s $13.49 then it goes up to the most expensive one Barnes and Noble
in some cases it's quite amazing the price variance
The phone even gives him a map of what stores are selling for how much, where
Later this year Ponger also plans versions for the Blackberry and for Google's android wireless operating system
Another new cell phone system for saving money Kyle Cunningham from at and t wireless showed us.
It's a free new download
called "where" on the new i phone 3 g ... Made by Ulocate of Boston.
And it finds you the cheapest gas.
it will zero in exactly on your location and it'll show you all the gas stations that are in your area in a radius that you choose.
And just like Ponger ... What they're charging, who's got the best deal ... And how to get there.
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