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Originally Posted by Lylej2k
Ok, let the texting lesson begin. I've had to teach this to my parents so I'm sure I can get ya going.
You can text anyone on any carrier, all you need is their number, including the area code (for me on verizon anyway). You can send text to their email, instead of entering a phone number simply use an email address "Johnsmith@somecompany.com" for example.
Anyone can text you from their phone, all they need is your number. I believe you are correct about sending a text from an email by using "Yournumber@sprintmessaging.com" but I'm not positive on that one as i do not text anyone from a computer via email.
If you have an AIM account and you set up mobile forwarding, any IM your friends send while you have it activated will be sent to your phone in the form of a text.
If i missed anything or you have any further questions, ask away.  |
Appreciate the insight. Here is the distinction I'm after. Is there a distinction between texting someone from my computer email versus my phone? If I enter their phone number in the 'to' field of an email address, I'd think that wouldn't work... seems like it would work if I did the same thing from my phone?
I don't always text from my phone only. Sometimes, if convenient, I may text from my computer using Outlook.
So, if I'm hearing correctly...
when I use my phone, I just text a phone number straight from my phone...
if that's true, that's easy enough.
When I want to use my computer, it seems to me that I need to know more than just the phone number and that might vary from carrier to carrier?