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Sprint today begins offering Slifter, a GPS-enabled mobile search application/service that allows consumers to use cellphones to find products in retail stores. Based on the GPS signal, consumers can easily search through 65 million products at 30,000 store locations and find out where they can buy certain products and at what price. Next, once the desired product has been found, users make shopping list, which later they can share with friends via text messages.
Alex Muller, founder and CEO of GPShopper, the company that develops Slifter, said that through the connection with Sprint, “many people will say, ‘Gone are the days where I have to drive from store to store to find what I need.’ ” Using cellphones, he said, they’ll discover “there’s a place just around the corner that has the product in stock.”
The Slifter costs $1.99 a month, and is available to all Sprint subscribers with data plans. (via: wsj)
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
