A First Look At Amazon's New SMS Purchasing System

Ars Technica has a first look at Amazon's recently announced SMS ordering system.  Some details about the system:

Amazon is still working on its goal of becoming your one-stop shop for anything, at any time or any place. Today, the company introduced TextBuyIt, a sort of SMS version of its 1-Click buying system. Users can send a text message to "AMAZON" (262966) with a product name, author, artist name, ISBN, or UPC code and receive the top two Amazon search results back almost instantly. From there, they can find out more information or simply make a purchase directly from their mobile phones. Although the process is a breeze on a smartphone, Amazon's real goal is to make buying easy for those with "plain old" mobile phones.

Head over to Ars to see some screenshots of the system in action on the author's iPhone.

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