Snooth Talk: iPhone App

General Chat

: iPhone App; Posted by siggswitz, Jul 9, 2008.; Ok, your in a restaurant and you want to order a bottle of wine... you end up loving or hating the bottle and want to take some notes on it immediately instead of waiting until the end of the night to get onto snooth. An iPhone App would be the perfect solution for snooth. It would be snooth for the iphone to get and post reviews. I'm not claiming that this is an original thought, I just really want to have it developed.

1794 3092: Reply by Philip, Jul 10, 2008.; Hey there - a really important request, thats for sure.

I blogged yesterday about what people want us to build for snooth next, and i think mobile apps will be one of the top requests. Not sure if we'll have a dedicated iphone app at first, but some mobile apps will at least get the ball rolling.

Theres a ton of stuff we'd like to do eventually, all the way from simple review posting, to being able to price shop fast while you are actually in a store (we'd tell you the average price in your zip code etc) to taking a photo of the bar code and emailing it to snooth so that we can push you back some scores and reviews!

Small steps though... basic mobile apps, most certainly on the list!

67 693: Reply by gr, Jul 11, 2008.; Even just a lighter weight (drop images except for extant wine label samples, drop a lot of JS) version at m.snooth.com would be much-appreciated and, honestly, get a far wider audience than an iPhone-specific version.

The current page does work just fine in the iPhone version of Safari (and, so far as I know, in various browsers on Palm and WinCE devices), but the load time, even with 3G, is glacial compared to everybody's "standard" high-speed Internet connection.

14 19: Reply by SusieJ, Jul 30, 2008.; GR's got a point. Have you seen iSepta.org? A couple of guys made the interface to the train schedule that Philly's public transport should have made years ago.

626 1263: Reply by mark, Jul 31, 2008.; We're definitely going to do a mobile version of the site. The plans are coming along nicely.

A downloadable iPhone app is a different beast altogether and there are differences between the platforms. For example, the mobile safari doesn't have access to your location information (so you have to give it to us yourself) or the accelerometer (so you can't get a wine recommendation by ... throwing your iPhone? ha.) We won't create the downloadable iPhone app without creating the mobile web version.

7 1: Reply by KMango, Aug 25, 2008.; Just another vote from the peanut gallery for an iPhone version of Snooth. Any mobile version will be great, though. Keep the ideas flowing like wine!

1794 3092: Reply by Philip, Aug 25, 2008.; Its actually in progress at the moment - we have some people working on ensuring the backend will scale first as someone else works on some slick designs for it. Hang tight - its coming (finally!)

1534 761: Reply by RBoulanger, Aug 27, 2008.; Will it be iPhone specific... or accessible to all with a modern phone?

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1534 761: Reply by RBoulanger, Aug 27, 2008.; Exactly - that way I can Snooth on my 'berry when I'm at the lunch counter, perusing a snooty wine list or in the airport security line.