Amazon launches mobile shopping service

Amazon is putting text messages to a new use allowing for comparison shopping on-the-go for users with any cell phone service. Amazon's new service "TextBuyIt" lets customers send text messages to find products on Amazon's web site.

Here's the company's guide on how the service works:


TextBuyIt enhances Amazon's current mobile solutions, two mobile sites, one of which is for iPhone users. While Amazon's executives claim to target the new service at impulse shopping, such as the guy leaving a concert and deciding to buy the band's CD before getting home, the blogosphere frames the service as another way to compare prices next time you are in Borders or CircuitCity.

Source: FoxBusiness, Techcrunch