We spend a lot of time working with Motorola and Verizon on applications, but we were surprised to hear that the Motorola Devour (now available from Verizon) had a fixed focal length camera – wow! This decision rendered all (that I know of) barcode scanning Apps in the Android market inoperable. Oops.

Verizon must be selling a bunch of these because we are getting LOTS of emails from users that ShopSavvy does not work on their phone. Many of the users explain, “ShopSavvy was the only reason I bought this phone and it doesn’t work, you guys suck!”  Again, we apologize – we didn’t realize the device would have a fixed focal length camera.

Verizon is sending us a Devour in the next couple of days and we plan to release a new version of ShopSavvy that will work as well or better than the version we have for the Nexus and the Droid. If the rollout goes well (i.e. no bugs) we will update ALL versions of the ShopSavvy app to include our new faster scanning library.

If you are an Android developer with barcode scanning in your app we can provide our new barcode scanning library at no cost – just email sales@biggu.com for more information.