Barcode scanning on your cell phone with ScanLife

Barcodes are everywhere: On products, magazines, mobile devices - yes, you got that last one right - mobile devices. Nearly everything has a barcode, and now mobile phones are no exception, thanks to ScanLife.

Scanlife allows you to read any barcode, as long as you have an autofocus camera on your cell phone. You just download the application, and you can get information about nearly anything - conduct price comparisons, nutritional values, bookmarks, contact information, etc.

Scanlife also allows you to create 2D barcodes for personal and business use. Business use requires a fee depending upon use, and personal accounts are free, allowing businesses and people to use barcodes for social networking, URL bookmarking, or providing magazine and newspaper readers a way to scan a barcode to save the article they're reading to their phone for later use.

Of course, being a network aware application, you should have an unlimited data plan to use Scanlife - otherwise you might fall victim to per use data rates.

You can download Scanlife from your cell phone by pointing your mobile browser to: www.2dscan.com