San Jose, CA -- (SBWIRE) --05/31/2011 -- Sigma Phone LLC announces the release of its popular and informative iPhone app, iPharmacy, in the form of iPharmacy -- Pill Identifier and Rx Reference to the Android Market. Now Android-device owners can get the in-depth medical prescription-guide with information about over 20,000 different pills. Along with information about individual pills, iPharmacy offers users the ability to identify over 80,000 packages; and includes 12,000 pill and package images.

All the drug information in the app comes straight from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Using iPharmacy users can search drugs by trade-names and ingredients; learn the correct dosage of a particular drug; the possible adverse reactions of taking the drug; precautions and warnings of the intake; and many other bits of information.

"This app comes highly recommended to both users and administrators of pharmaceutical medications or drugs. Doctors, pharmacists and nurses can all benefit from this app." said Jack Yang, the CTO of SigmaPhone LLC. "As administrators of different drugs, such fields need to be up to date on the latest drugs and be able to compare them to others. The various guides in iPharmacy should come in handy for such information gathering and comparisons."

The app even allows those in the medical field to e-mail recipients all the info available in the guides. There is also a section for taking notes and being able to copy and paste information to other apps or documents.

Features:

-- An essential medication guide of 20,000 drugs for consumers & professionals!

-- Includes 12,000 searchable pill and package images.

-- Recognizes 200,000 NDC and UPC barcodes.

-- Identifies medication of interest by brand name, generic name (ingredient) and bar code!

-- Pill identifier: identify drug by shape, color and imprint

-- Offers pre-activated electronic prescription discount card sponsored by HonestDiscounts.com!

-- Named as "Best App for Prescription Reference"

-- #1 Medical App of 2010 of Apple App Store!

-- "Best iPhone App for Prescription Reference" in the O'Reilly book titled "Best iPhone Apps", (2nd edition) 2010: http://bit.ly/BestRxRef

Device Requirements:

-- Requires Android 1.6 or later;

-- 20M of free space

Pricing and Availability:
iPharmacy is available for free download worldwide through the Android Market in the Medical category: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sigmaphone.topmedfree&feature