iText – SMS-based Web Services for Low-end Cell Phones
Juan Li, Justin Anderson, Matti Kariluoma, Kailash Joshi, Prateek Rajan, Pubudu Wijeyaratne · International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science · 2013
With the development of mobile wireless technology, more people are using their smart phones to browse Web sites, do social networking, and play online games.However, a significant fraction of people in developing regions are still using simple low-end devices with limited processing and communication capabilities.Access to Internet contents and services is currently available only for Internet-enabled, Internetcapable smart devices.To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a Short Messaging Service (SMS)based service to enable low-end cell phones to access Internet and Web services.In particular, we designed a service called iTex, allowing users to use Google web services through text messages even if they do not own Internet-enabled and Internet-capable smart devices.