WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Amazon.com is now offering their free Amazon App for Android in Android Market.

The app makes it easy shop on Amazon.com and thousands of other merchants.. The application includes the Amazon Remembers feature that gives Android users two different ways to use their device camera to find and remember items available for sale on Amazon.com: they can either snap a photo of an item or scan a barcode, and then receive a product match. For barcode scans and many photos, matches are instant. Other items take just a few minutes.

• Purchasing using Amazon's 1-Click ordering and Amazon Prime.
• Tracking packages or modifying orders using the Your Account feature.
• Receiving personalized recommendations.
• Viewing editorial and customer reviews.
• Getting the Gold Box Deal of the Day.
• Accessing their Wish List.
  

The Amazon App for Android is available on any Android-enabled device as a free download through Android Market^T. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/android_app.

"Customers have been requesting an Amazon shopping application on their Android devices and we are thrilled to bring them the Amazon App for Android," said Sam Hall, director of Amazon Mobile. "In addition to their favorite Amazon shopping features, Amazon App for Android users can use Amazon Remembers to easily keep track of the items they see in their daily lives and even instantly match photos and barcodes to products available at Amazon.com."

Amazon Remembers is available on Amazon's family of shopping applications, including the Amazon App for iPhone and iPod Touch, the Amazon App for BlackBerry, and now on the Amazon App for Android. Using the Amazon App for Android, customers can snap a photo of a product or scan a barcode for a fun and easy way to build a list of photographs showing products they want to remember for later, make price comparisons across multiple merchants, and purchase products from Amazon.com and thousands of other retailers on the Amazon.com site - without ever using the keyboard.