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Google searches via SMS on your cellphone
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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No more need for 411 and $1.00 plus in charges. A simple SMS to 46645 (GOOGL) with a search request will be replied with the info in short order.
info here => Google SMS
more info over @ slashdot.org, there's a thread.
This is fricking cool. I'll use this all the time. Very useful and I luckly have unlimited SMS so I'll be abusing that for sure.
ex.
Sample queries:
Price ipod 20gb
ipod 20gb prices
F ipod 20gb
then you get a SMS back with the current going price on froogle.
neat stuff. 
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Cool, but is it free? I have free SMS too.
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mobile companies might be putting a stop to unlimited SMS service if more things like this spring up.
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Originally posted by Truepop:
mobile companies might be putting a stop to unlimited SMS service if more things like this spring up.
Very true.
-Owl
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Hmm, it dont work on US Cellular it seems... dunno though.
It says service not availible (I am assuming its not supporting the 46645...
poo.
-Owl
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Originally posted by OwlBoy:
Hmm, it dont work on US Cellular it seems... dunno though.
It says service not availible (I am assuming its not supporting the 46645...
poo.
-Owl
either the number has been slashdoted or the mobile phone companies just decided to block the number 
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Just tried it on my Treo (Sprint) and it works. It's cool, however my phone already has web access so it is somewhat useless. I can see that phones without web access could definitely benefit from it though.
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Saw that today while reading the news... Very interesting service, but will it be easier than using WEP?
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Originally posted by spatterson:
Saw that today while reading the news... Very interesting service, but will it be easier than using WEP?
WAP you mean? 
I dunno, it could be useful for really quick stuff. Right now web browsing on US networks is just too slowwwww after a while. We need 3G dammit! (And by 3G, I don't mean Verizon's EV-DO crap that costs a trillion dollars a kilobyte and doesn't even work with any phones yet.)
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Originally posted by maxintosh:
WAP you mean?
I dunno, it could be useful for really quick stuff. Right now web browsing on US networks is just too slowwwww after a while. We need 3G dammit! (And by 3G, I don't mean Verizon's EV-DO crap that costs a trillion dollars a kilobyte and doesn't even work with any phones yet.)
What we need is UMTS (forgive me if that has something to do with 3G) My ex works for Deutsche Telekom and has mentioned that UMTS provides download up to 2Mbits?
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