In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete

Re:In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete by raesene6 on Monday July 17, 2017 @03:24AM (#14786331)

Until recently I'd have agreed with you about much faster, I always found QR codes a bit clunky and slow.

However I think the image recognition processes must be improving as the last couple of times I've used them (for TOTP setup) recognition was very fast, < 2 seconds of the camera app. coming on as I was moving the phone into position.

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Re:In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete by c3833174 on Monday July 17, 2017 @06:41AM (#14787207)

It really depends on the software, I have the obsqr app (based on a native library) on a 600Mhz android phone from 2010 and I get recognition in probably less than 0.5 seconds after pointing it at the code.

Meanwhile the whatsapp web code reader on the same device and same qr code takes more than 6 seconds of careful aligning, and even on modern devices there are still some hilariously bad code readers (having to manually align the corner squares with an overlay)

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Re:In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete by mos_basik on Monday July 17, 2017 @11:08AM (#14789214)

+1 for Obsqr, great app. And I use Talalarmo from the same devs as my daily alarm. Love that team's no frills style.

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