Shop Amazon by TXT From Your Cell

Amazon starts the war against Paypal. Today, you can not only send or receive money via cell phone using Amazon’s mobile payment platform, but also can you search and buy items from Amazon.

Now you can Search for items, Check prices, and Buy wherever and whenever you want – using text messaging! Simply text your search to ‘262966’ (AMAZON) and get search results and prices in seconds. Text ‘iPod Nano’ to 262966 to try searching now.

To enable your phone to buy using TextBuyIt, you will need to add your mobile phone number and confirm your shipping/payment defaults for your Amazon.com account. Activate now to start buying from your mobile phone or learn more about this new feature at TextBuyIt.

I tried it and really like it. I usually go to bookstore to browser books and write the books I like to my cellphone and came back home do the online book shopping. With this service, I can complete the transaction right inside the bookstore. Nice.