If you own an Android phone such as the Samsung Galaxy S there is a new Android App that will solve any Sudoku puzzle and in order to do so you just need to photograph it with your phone camera.
Of course the question might arise as to why you might wish to cheat as Sudoku. The whole point of the game is to use your brain power to fill in the missing numbers, not just fill them in using an app on your smartphone.
In a demonstration of the Sudoku solving capabilities of the new Google app Google recruited the 2009 world champion of Sudoku, Tammy McLeod, and challenged him to beat it. Pitted against him was a Sudoku novice who was equipped with an Android phone and the App.
McLeod was given a head start and was soon filling in the numbers on an extremely difficult Sudoku puzzle. His opponent switched on his phone and photographed the puzzle. The text recognition software produced a digitised image of the puzzle on the display screen and within seconds the puzzle had been solved.
In response smartphones have been officially banned from all Sudoku competitions.
The App can actually to far more than just solve Sudoku puzzles in record times. It is also a highly efficient barcode scanner. All you need to do is hover the app over a barcode and the phone will vibrate once it has interpreted it. It will then open up a web browser and display information on the item including price comparisons across a range of retailers.
This is just one example of an augmented reality app. It seems that these apps will soon be changing the way we interact with the world. We can point our phones at the night sky and identify the stars and planets; we can point them at a restaurant and read the current menu on our display screen; we can point the camera at a Spanish road sign and see on our screen an English translation. It is a new world, and we will need to get used to it. To find the right phone for you visit dialaphone today, dialaphone stock a huge number of cheap mobile phones, be it the latest iphone 4 or an older classic model you will find it for a great price dialaphone.