1magine,
I use my gmail to send text messages. I am on sprint. I just do the (areacode+phonenumber)= xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com

My wife is on sprint with her flip phone, and she can just reply.. so i guess the sprint text allows you to send text messages to e-mail. So now i don't pay for my text messages to her, but I do have to keep my gmail checking every 10 mins so that I get them fairly promplty. If i'm texting back and forth more than 1 every 10 mins, i just hit the send/receive.

Hope this helps.

thanks for the help guys.
all you sprint guys are so lucky. over here in canada our phone plans suck bigtime.
i can pay $10 extra bucks per month for 1000 SMS, but thats $10 i dont wanna pay.
none of my friends have a PPC so i can't really email to their phone.
i will call Bell Mobility later and ask if they can hook me up since i'm paying so much.

49.99 for all that???? wow do i hate verizon, $45 extra for data, ahhhhhhhh

SMS for msn messenger
 

This is a discussion related to my question. Now, doesn't Windows Live Messenger (WLM) for regular PC have a SMS option? You can send a text message to someones phone then they can reply and it appears on your WLM chat window. I was hoping that this would be an feature in the WM6 version because I have a $7 unlimited browser plan and could just use WLM to SMS people. But I can't seem to get it working, there is no option to do this at all. Am I missing something, is anyone else missing this?