New York-based 27 Mobile charges roughly $2 to answer each question. Subjects of questions can be anything from the practical to the random.
The announcement comes on the heels of people-powered search engine ChaCha's full-scale rollout of its free (and currently ad-free) textChaCha mobile Q&A service, as well as overall increased focus on SMS answers from free directory assistance services like GOOG-411 and 1-800-FREE-411. So it raises the question of whether users will pay a fee for a text-based answering service on top of their standard text-messaging charges--in exchange for getting answers sans ads.
--Tameka Kee