Attention: Cell Phone Users

By Holly Peterson

I was at a birthday party last night, where I discovered this super cool tool for ANYONE with a cell phone. And who doesn't have a cell phone???
A target market that immediately popped into my mind when learning about smarttouch was teenagers/parents of teenagers. Or anyone that doesn't want to pay an extra data plan fee through their cell phone carrier.

Read on for more information directly from smarttouch...

• What is SmartTouch?
  SmartTouch is a powerful, mobile widget-platform that uses text messaging to provide the user with a rich, branded, graphic, and interactive experience. SmartTouch gives you access to a large base of content and services comprising a diverse set of categories including information, entertainment, social networking, retail, food services, banking & payments, etc. from many of the brands you know and trust. There are no short codes to remember and no syntax rules to follow in order to interact with these services.
• What are widgets?
  Widgets are mini-applications that run on the SmartTouch application on the mobile phone. Widgets allow you to access specific content and services available via text messaging in an intuitive manner. The user experience is much superior than using a mobile web browser and does not require a data plan. Widgets can be downloaded and managed by the user as explained in “Managing Widgets” below.
• How much does SmartTouch cost?
  SmartTouch is free to the user. Since SmartTouch uses text messaging to send and receive messages when you access content and services, you may incur standard text messaging charges from your operator. If you have a text messaging plan, such messages will be applied to your text plan. For details about your plan and text messaging charges, please contact your operator. Certain content and services accessed through the widgets, such as retail purchases and transactions, paid subscriptions, Premium SMS content, etc. will incur their own associated charges and are not covered by SmartTouch.
• Does SmartTouch require a data plan?
  SmartTouch does not require a data plan. However, one-time data charges may be incurred when the application and/or widgets are downloaded wirelessly based on your service plan with your operator. For details about your plan and data charges, please contact your operator.
• What cellular operators does SmartTouch support?
  SmartTouch currently works on all cellular operators in the US.
• What phones does SmartTouch support?
  SmartTouch currently supports Windows Mobile and Pocket PC phones. We are actively working to enable many new devices on various operators’ networks. Stay tuned or enroll here to be informed when our application is released on new devices. Below are the devices SmartTouch currently supports: