Apparently the waters are very muddy in bar code readers, scanners, and etc. Who is first, who the best, who will be most widely used is yet to be determined. The following site has done test and has gotten much feedback from various users.

Mobile Barcodes NeoReader on the iPhone vs Nokia N95 Barcode Scanner

Last week a release went out that NeoMedia had released the NeoReaderfor the iPhone. I decided to check it out. Because I also have a Nokia N95; with the Nokia Barcode Scanner on it I decided to do a face-off between both the products.

How?

Well, I chose the same sets of barcodes and I took a picture or scanned them using the two services.

But before I start the comparison I need to mention that the solutions from the iPhone NeoReader is a classic picture solution. You see a mobile barcode you take a picture and then it directs you to the content online. But with the Nokia solution it is a scanner. This means that you hold the device as near to the barcode as possible and it scans it for you.

I have to be honest, I have used this Nokia solution couple of times now and the best thing about it is the barcode scan noise and click sound that accompanies the scan when the barcode is read. Also there are two red lines with the Nokia Scanner which makes it easy to see where the phone needs to be placed.

With the NeoReader you can take the image and you have an option to change it take it again or go with the original.
On conducting these tests I tried to take several types of image with the NeoReader (near and from afar). So basically in some cases you could only see the barcode but in others you could see the barcode and physical objects. To demonstrate this I have taken some video (http://www.flixwagon.com/bena) or side panel to the right of this article – but unfortunately it didn’t come out.

So, I took pictures of the following codes. I found them all via a Google Image search of Mobile Barcodes. I took the pictures of the online versions and in this test I only used the online versions.

http://www.gomonews.com/mobile-barco...