Amazon.com launches shopping application for Google Android

Amazon.com is continuing its march through the smartphone market. After launching shopping applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry earlier this year, the online retail giant is rolling out an app for Google Android phones. The Android app comes equipped with the "Amazon Remembers" feature that lets people snap photos of products and get pricing information. Amazon has also added a new function to Amazon Remembers, letting people use their Android phones to scan product barcodes.

I wonder if Amazon incorporated technology from its recent acquisition, SnapTell, into the new version of Amazon Remembers?

Here's how Amazon describes the Amazon Remembers feature for 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.

Amazon also has a Kindle application for iPhone to let users buy electronic books. But it's not clear if Amazon will put the Kindle store on Android phones as well, given the tensions between Amazon and Google over the emerging e-book market.

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