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Originally Posted by 1magine
hi guys,
i've never been a big text message fan until i bought my mogul. from what i believe, we get charged per text message we send (outgoing) right? what program do i use to be able to receive SMS so that it goes through my data plan and i dont get charged per SMS?
thanks again.
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1magine,
Your Bell Mobility SMS constraints may be different, and there may be some obscure hack that I'm missing, but in general your options are limited (based on Verizon experience) to:
a) conventional email send and receive (i.e. with other email users)
b) conventional SMS receive (pay$) and reply through email if the recipient's carrier supports it (e.g. ##########@vtext.com for verizon)
c) Open IE and go to the web messaging page of carrier whose phone you want to text. (
www.vtext.com for verizon,
http://www.txt.bellmobility.ca/bmc/en/ for yours). With VW you can initiate a conversation from this page, and people can reply from their phones to it. I just don't know persistent the session would be. I didn't check BM for you.
d) Free mobile IM program like palringo. - no SMS interface, just a substitute. Your friends with flip phones need to enable Mobile IM on their handsets. Their IMs get charged like text, yours are included w/ data.
All of these manage to avoid some text charges, but their drawbacks keep me on SMS.
Please post back if you find something different - I'd like to save some money on SMS too.