Comments on: TC50(DemoPit): SmartTouch Brings A GUI To SMS

By: sridhar

sridhar — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:28:02 +0000

Hi Nash,

You can also download the application to your computer and then install it to ur phone..

- sridhar

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By: sridhar

sridhar — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:46:51 +0000

get smarttouch for Blackberry too… I m really exicted to play with it….!!11

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:04:33 +0000

good smarttouch sms apps for iphone users, it will be easy for us to order pizza and other service.

By: Angela Hill

Angela Hill — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:43:10 +0000

Smart Touch could very well revolutionize the industry. This is definitely a case of needing to reach out to early adopters and college students as part of the platform roll-out nationwide. I’m interested to see what happens next.

By: Ben Strackany

Ben Strackany — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:55:01 +0000

I could see the widgets morphing to cover non-SMS applications & interfaces, too. Because SmartTouch is basically putting a better user-friendly interface onto a cumbersome, old, yet ubiquitous (i.e. text messaging) interface. As apps become more complex and stress SMS’ usability I can see more true apps instead of just text message wrappers.

By: Craig Braun

Craig Braun — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:29:20 +0000

Getting mobile users to download is a challenge for any off-deck app. While not the only way to get SmartTouch on your phone, for many people, OTA downloads will be the easiest (at least in the short-term). SmartTouch attempts to break down these barriers by 1) creating one download for many branded widgets, 2) making it dead simple for the end user, 3) one time download and then use your existing text messaging plan, 4) offering a free application, 5) depending on your carrier’s pay-as-you-go data rates, the charge will be about the cost of a ringtone – which fits into current purchasing behavior. This is especially true for our upcoming J2ME release.

SmartTouch is working on more ways to break down barriers and give mass-market users dead simple, intuitive access to useful content and services on their phone.

And Alex – I’m with you. If choosing between 6 clicks on my phone or having to walk through my order with a CSR at Pizza Hut (or Papa John’s) while I’m trying to watch a game….give me the 6 clicks.

-Craig
Feel free get in touch: craig (at) smarttouchmobileinc.com

“SmartTouch. Cool stuff without the sucky 3G network.”

By: Thomas Nash

Thomas Nash — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:31:57 +0000

Seems like a good idea. As per smarttouch team, smarttouch users can use features of the internet without any dataplan. But the problem is users need internet connection to download both the application and widgets. Also to view some of the ads served through this application. I think this is just contradictory to what smarttouch offers.

One more thing is that, in Asian countries like India, dataplan is much cheaper than sms charge for shortcodes. Otherwise smarttouch has to cope with sms service providers to reduce user’s burden.

Let us see how smartouch hits other countries….

Then regarding data sent as sms, smarttouch doesnt assure any security. How can I trust you to give my account details just as an sms text?

Regards
Nash

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By: Jonathan George

Jonathan George — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:50:28 +0000

@Frank – funny you mention that. The first time I ordered online via pizza hut, they sent me a text message letting me know that I had opted-out of text message ordering. Hah hah hah.

So interesting side note: Why didn’t SmartTouch announce an iPhone app as well? Oh, wait, you can’t [REDACTED] using the existing [REDACTED].

By: Adult Social Networking

Adult Social Networking — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:13:03 +0000

now, people will be able to order pizza by sms. ha ha ha

By: abc

abc — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:54:03 +0000

Hey Mixergy dude! You are becoming very very very irritating now. Stop spamming all techcrunch posts with your nonsense and forced comments just so your blog gets a few clicks.

By: Wim Permana

Wim Permana — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:50:24 +0000

Let’s bring it on to my country; Indonesia! Wait, let’s just steal the idea ok.

By: Wayne Pan

Wayne Pan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:29:34 +0000

Two issues I see…
1) I assume you want to use this because you don’t have a data plan. How are those same people going to download the program?
2) Partnering with manufactures? I’m sure carriers want to pre-install applications that are designed to get around having a data plan…

but then again SMS texts do probably have higher profit margins….

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:29:32 +0000

How long before these companies start SMS spamming (as signup probably includes opt-in)? For example, Pizza Hut sending me advert around dinner time?

I’m not sure I’m cool with such a direct relationship and I’d rather have an intermediary brokering relationships with fast food joints.

Amazon would also be somewhat of a problem for me (I get too much bacn from them already). Chase? maybe, but everytime I have to go into an actual chase branch, the people want to upsell me on some account offering or some other crap.

Unfortunately, 99.9% of large commercial operations have done nothing to gain my trust, and seem intent on trying to “sell” something when I’m clearly nt in “buy mode”.

P.S. Funny that the Mixergy dude makes it into the top 5 comment spots of every post, often having to reply to someone else’s comment to get there (whether it is truly related or not).

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By: Sizzlord

Sizzlord — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:09:31 +0000

Man I really hope you were being sarcastic there about TALKING on a PHONE.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:08:45 +0000

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By: Andrew of Mixergy

Andrew of Mixergy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:17:01 +0000

I would love to order pizza without having to talk on the phone. I’m glad someone’s working on that. Seriously. I don’t want to TALK on my phone. I’d rather text.