The Google PhotoScan app is billed as the "photo scanner of the future," and while that may seem good news there's a difference in the results with the marketing claim.

Once scanned, you can either save the photos on storage or in the cloud, through the Google Photos. You can just browse them later if you want to organize or share the images. The good thing about the cloud is you get unlimited photo storage and it's not vulnerable to corruption or damage unlike your phone.

The Google PhotoScan feature allows the users to digitize their old photos that are just lying around. The good news is that it will do all the heavy lifting. Whenever you scan your photo, the app automatically crop the picture, adjust the glare through its capture flow, correct the perspective and adjust the rotation no matter which way the user scan the photo.

But in a new review, PhoneArena said the results of the Google PhotoScan are "very low-res." The images can only reach a maximum resolution of 2000x2000 pixels, which if digitized will only translate to around 3 megapixels.

That would be enough if you are looking at the photos through the small display of your smart phone. Once transferred to the larger screen of the desktop or laptop, however, the flaws are magnified. However, the Google PhotoScan does manage to take away the glare when scanning, which is not the case when you use your camera phone on an old photo.

But people might still take this new feature of the Google PhotoScan as good news because the important thing for them is to save old memories in perpetuity in case they lose the old hard copies.