Scott recently mentioned Google had a free mobile 411 service.
Yesterday I tried it out on a couple of local places. You can say “Map it” when you get the results, and they send you a text message containing the phone number, address, and a link to the location in Google Maps. This technique seems slightly faster than typing the business name, city, and state directly in to the Google Maps location, which yields the same results but doesn’t use up a text message.
Of course you can also stay on the line and you’ll be connected to the business for free. This really makes the land-line telephone company business model of charging extra for every little service seem antiquated, e.g. “Press 1 to be connected for seventy-five cents.” No thanks Cingular, I mean AT&T Wireless, I’ll just use Google 411.