Chris Barr

Amazon’s cell phone payment

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

I’ve used Google’s text messaging service before to look up movie times and such when I’m not near a computer, and it’s great.  If you’re not familiar with it, just send a text message to GOOGLE (466453) with the message being “movies 32466” (thats a zip code by the way) or something similar, and it will text you back with movie listings for that area.  It’s a great service that’s free and I use it all the time.  Read more about it here.

Now Amazon has done something similar, which I’m just as excited to try out.  Send a message to AMAZON (262966) and then type your search term in the message.  You can put product names, authors, artists, or even ISBN numbers for books.  It will reply with the results, you pick the one you want and it calls you to explain more details.  You can even set it up to be able to purchase items over your phone.  Check it out here.

I know this sounds like a big ad for Amazon, but this is seriously a great idea and it’s something Ill be using in the future.