Amazon on Tuesday night introduced a service to allow shopping their online store via SMS text message. To price compare anything Amazon sells, text an item name, UPC or ISBN number to 262966 (AMAZON). If the price is right, you can order it from Amazon via replying to the text message (assuming you have an Amazon account). Amazon also sends a link to the product so you can browse more details. I’ve been in several situations where I tried to price shop an item via Amazon and this service will make it a lot easier. More details on the next page.

Link: Amazon TextBuyIt

As an example I texted “Time Capsule” to “262966″ to see how speedy the results would be.

Within 30 seconds Amazon sent me a reply showing the price for both the 500mb and 1TB version.

To receive more details, text back “1d”

As you can see, Amazon provides details showing:

Is it in stock?

Date it released?

How highly is it rated by Amazon purchasers?

And finally a link to the Amazon product page.

Most of this information has been available to anyone with a mobile web browser. The benefit of the SMS based service is that text messages are often more convenient to send and receive while using your phone. More Amazon TextBuyit FAQs here.

Link: Amazon TextBuyIt