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)