Google and Your S60 Phones

After discussing about Google Web Search on your S60 phones, we are now discussing Google SMS. Google SMS is a feature that allows you to do search on Google by sending text message. Unfortunately, I don’t have a list of supported countries. What I know is that it works in the US and Canada.

Searching via Google SMS can be done by sending the query to the number “46645” (GOOGL). The result will be sent back by Google via SMS.

There are several things we can with Google SMS. You can request for exchange rate. For example, send “1 USD in EUR” to find the exchange rate between US dollar and Euro.

To find the movie schedule, type the movie title followed by the postal code. For example, send “Shrek the Third V6Y 1Z2” to find the schedule of Shrek the Third movie in the area near to V6Y 1Z2.

You can enquiry weather forecast by typing the “weather” followed by the name of city. For example, send “weather Vancouver BC” to find weather forecast in Vancouver, BC.

If you have limited access to Google Maps, you can enquiry direction using Google SMS too. For example, send “origin to destination” to Google SMS service. The screenshots below show how the result looks like.