Now find directions and send emails without internet!

NEW DELHI — Vavia Technologies, a mobility and internet solutions provider, has announced two new solutions for mobile phone users that will allow them to find directions and send emails even without the internet.

The latest facilities offered by the platform are ‘Find Directions on SMS’ and ‘Send Email on SMS’. The new service uses Vavia’s SMS-based search engine – txtBrowser – that allows a user to access any information that is available on the internet over SMS by simply sending his query in natural language.

Commenting on the launch of these solutions, Alan D Souza, founder and chief executive officer of Vavia Technologies said, “The fabulous responses that we’ve been receiving from the users inspire us to constantly keep innovating. We are relentlessly keeping an eye on the industry and identifying its shortcomings. These two features are our effort to answer those deficiencies that we’ve identified in the recent days.”

Users can ‘Find Directions on SMS’, which is a feature that functions similarly to GPS without the internet. To find directions, a user needs to send their query to 55444 in a specified format, i.e., Directions <Place> to <Place> over SMS. For example, Directions Saket to Mehrauli. In return, this solution sends back an SMS with directions for the user in the following way:

Distance from Saket, New Delhi, India to Mehrauli, New Delhi, India is 4.9 km; Duration is 11 minutes and the directions are:
1) Head west on Marg Number 32. Distance – 58 m
2) Turn left toward Gurudwara Rd. Distance – 70 m
3) Turn right onto Gurudwara Rd. Distance – 1.1 km
4) Turn right onto Mehrauli Badarpur Road. Drive along the park

Furthermore, users can ‘Send Email via SMS’, which is a feature that has great utility. It enables users to send email through SMS in the easiest possible way. To send an email, a user needs to send a message on 55444 in this format, i.e., Email <email address> <message>. For example, Email [email protected] Let’s do some good work.

These two features come in handy in areas with poor internet connectivity or no internet connectivity at all. The product can be used from any phone in plain everyday English without having to remember complex combinations of keywords and symbols.