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Free Unlimited SMS Messages

Saturday June 28, 2008 12:51 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Macsimumnews provides a tip on how to send and receive unlimited SMS messages from your iPhone (assuming you have an unlimited data plan). The steps are as follows:

1. Create a new email message.
2. In the To: box, type 10digitnumber@teleflip.com. (1235551234@teleflip.com)
3. Type a message and click send.
4. The message will be sent to the cell phone with the number in the To: box
5. All recieved text messages will be sent to you as an email.


They use the free service Teleflip.com to route your email messages to SMS and back. The service is free, but only works in U.S. and Canada.

This means you won't be getting instant notifications of these SMS->email messages since you have to wait until your email updates. This will be far less of an issue once MobileMe is deployed as you will be able to get Push email sent to your iPhone.
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Rozvagyj
Posted: 47 months ago
another way to do it is through AIM. with iphone 1.XX just go to meebo.com and use sign into AOL instant messenger. for the buddy put "+13101234567"

the message will be received to the phone as

"aim screen name (you can reply to this message) blah blah blah"

and using meebo will give you instantaneous responses!
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Akaal
Posted: 47 months ago
i dont understand, how does this work, does it work in the UK?

im gona get iphone 3g soon, and gona have a bundle of unlimited text messages put on my phone plan. do i still need this if i want to send unlimited text messages?
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Rozvagyj
Posted: 47 months ago
no. its for people that dont want to waste txt messages.
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arn
Posted: 47 months ago

i dont understand, how does this work, does it work in the UK?

im gona get iphone 3g soon, and gona have a bundle of unlimited text messages put on my phone plan. do i still need this if i want to send unlimited text messages?


U.S. Canada only.

It converts your email to an SMS for delivery to others and reply SMS's into emails back to you,

arn
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NorfolkMustard
Posted: 47 months ago
Available in US and CAN only. Not UK (etc)
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amusiccale
Posted: 47 months ago
I've been using this on AIM for a while. Good tip!
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thechidz
Posted: 47 months ago
ive actually been doing this for a few weeks now. only problem is if people try to reply to your text you wont receive it. they have to start a new text to send you so make sure you tell your contacts how to do it
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L3X
Posted: 47 months ago
Cool, my wife and I can do this. We're not paying for txt messages on our iPhone 3G.
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Tony25
Posted: 47 months ago

no. its for people that dont want to waste txt messages.


I'm still confuse. How does it help from not wasting text messages? I understand the recieving part of it but how about when I want to send a reply? I will have to send it via a text message, right? :confused:
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FreeState
Posted: 47 months ago

Cool, my wife and I can do this. We're not paying for txt messages on our iPhone 3G.


Why not just use email then? Since its in your email already?
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