Sprint debuts GPS-assisted shopping aide
The word "Slifter" doesn’t exactly make me want to buy things, but Sprint is hoping that it was have just that affect on many of its subscribers. The new service, simply dubbed Slifter, relies on technology provided by GPSShopper to bring location-based shopping recommendations to its GPS capable handsets. Users can search by store category, location, and product. The latter category search draws on a continuously updated database of over 85 million products, giving you instant access to that "special cream" you so desperately need. You can choose to use the information immediately, or save an unspecified number of searches onto your handset for later use. It will be available on all GPS-enabled handsets for a nominal $2 monthly fee. For those of you not "lucky" enough to be locked into a Sprint contract, the service is available directly from Slifter themselves for a variety of handsets and service providers, albeit without the GPS-assisted goodies.
I hate add on services that nickle and dime you each month. Some of this should just be included in the base plans.
So you have to pay Sprint $2 EXTRA /month to use a service that the stores prolly pay them to put themselves in?
It isn’t even that they pay them the fact that we now need someone to tell me something I could do for myself by just walking is ridiculous. People the idea of mobile phones was at one point to free us to roam and be able to communicate with others. But man this getting bad. …… But then again a bargin is a bargin. So maybe as someone said a full payment would be fine not the by month thing.