[Ivel]

Useless. Everyone has unlimited SMS's now-a-days...

[breitlinglvr]

If money becomes an issue for some people and they need to cut back on services this could be a option.

[cricketlang]

when i had my touch i just used the web based sms service at joopz.com that was awesome for me and i used it for the whole time i had my touch. i would prefer to see an iphone version of that rather than this which is simply sending an MMS, not really an sms.

[harrisb]

i was unaware of teleflip going belly up. im sorry. here are the corresponding carrier addresses

verizon= @vtext.com

AT&T= @txt.att.net

sprint= @messaging.sprintpcs.com

t-mobile= @tmomail.net

virgin mobile= @vmbol.com

a simple google search can find you others, these are the major ones.

also, i recommend that you add this to your contacts if you will be txting them frquently, so it will auto-fill.

Hope i helped.

[CaptainChaos]

Originally Posted by harrisb

i was unaware of teleflip going belly up. im sorry. here are the corresponding carrier addresses

verizon= @vtext.com

AT&T= @txt.att.net

sprint= @messaging.sprintpcs.com

t-mobile= @tmomail.net

virgin mobile= @vmbol.com

a simple google search can find you others, these are the major ones.

also, i recommend that you add this to your contacts if you will be txting them frquently, so it will auto-fill.

Hope i helped.

This doesn't work when sending to an alltel phone. I tried and tried and tried.

[Happy Noodle Boy]

Originally Posted by Bernie-Mac

^But unless you have push email your constantly checking your mail for a text...kind of a pain


How old is this? AppleChic is slippin'

Not sure if this is news but Yahoo! Mail is free and has push enabled for the iPhone so you can just make an account with them and use it to push whatever needs pushing.

[llescaflownell]

Originally Posted by harrisb

i was unaware of teleflip going belly up. im sorry. here are the corresponding carrier addresses

verizon= @vtext.com

AT&T= @txt.att.net

sprint= @messaging.sprintpcs.com

t-mobile= @tmomail.net

virgin mobile= @vmbol.com

a simple google search can find you others, these are the major ones.

also, i recommend that you add this to your contacts if you will be txting them frquently, so it will auto-fill.

Hope i helped.

Wow it works, pretty awesome trick to get free sms. I fetch my mail and it works pretty good, if only apple would figure out how to fix their push email...

Originally Posted by Happy Noodle Boy

Not sure if this is news but Yahoo! Mail is free and has push enabled for the iPhone so you can just make an account with them and use it to push whatever needs pushing.

Really?! they push enabled the iphone? sweet, i have a yahoo account

[jibaro3]

I will still use AIM for free

[llescaflownell]

Hmmm, still not pushing for me, and I set my yahoo account to push, is there something else that I need to do for my email to be pushed?

[micromarty]

I just set up a new yahoo email for txt from my iphone and it works awesome, push and everything through the mail app, not back for saving $20 a month

[llescaflownell]

Originally Posted by micromarty

I just set up a new yahoo email for txt from my iphone and it works awesome, push and everything through the mail app, not back for saving $20 a month

Do you have 3G or 2G? and did you sign up for yahoo on the iphone or did you do it on the computer? My yahoo account is like 6 years old...

[hunterths35]

I tested the app to see how it works. I sent the smstouch text to myself.

Pic 1- is the smstouch's text opened in my SMS inbox

Pic 2- is the emailed reply i sent back "Hey what's up"

Pic 3- is just a screenie of the app


I do have a question though If anyone might know. Currently this app you have to send a text to that person first inorder for the smstouch to activate. But if a friend sends you a text out of the blue it shows up in your SMS inbox. How do I make all my contact run through smstouch. I am trying just to get out of a 20$ a month charge,(cheap college student), if anyone knows any other effect way of getting around the system inlighten me.

[nickh]

Do you guys in the US have to pay to receive a text?? Thats a bit steep if you do. We only have to pay to send.

[Je5]

I think this is probably a waste of someone's time and effort I would never use this since texting is now pretty much included in packages or you could use AIM or just your regular text...I mean really when are you ever going to use this...it will show your email instead of your number that is pretty dumb if you ask me

Originally Posted by nickh

Do you guys in the US have to pay to receive a text?? Thats a bit steep if you do. We only have to pay to send.

it totally depends on a persons phone/data plan for example on T-mobile I pay a fee for unlimited text but yes some companies charge you for incoming.

[hunterths35]

In the US (at ATT anyway) you have to pay for both sent and recieved sms .10 cents per sent or recieved. Its very dumb! And the text messageing packages are 5$ for 200, 15$ for 1500, 20$ unlimited, and thats on top of your monthly 30$ charge for the iphones data plan. I dont think this idea is dumb (SMSTOUCH that is) i think it is very useful when you understand it, you can pay $240 a year to text i dont have that extra money. I just hope theres a way to catch incoming messages and have them sent to your email instead of them first showing up in your orginal SMS app.