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Re: [peditors] off topic - a text message question (SMS)


<quote who="Paul Nevai">
> Dear Friends, especially the ones in Europe:
>
>
> In the US, it looks like, one can routinely SMS to e-mail addresses too
> not just to cell phone numbers.

hmm, never heard of that one... (I use Superpager to do that, fwiw)

not in Oz

> So you can imagine my shock when my Centro with a European SIM card
> declared that "phone numbers" such as xxx@... were invalid and didn't
> even try to send the SMS. So the SIM card must have a built-in protection
> against using non-pure-digit addresses.
>
> Is this really so? Is SMS-ing to e-mail addresses in Europe a no-no?

I've noticed Palm's SMS app diaplys email addreses, but, won't process them
(on TX, on T3, it only shows mobiles)


I can do it on the mobile, BUT, AFAIK, it then turns SMS into MMS.



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Voytek




Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:51 pm

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Hi Guys: With Sprint I can send an SMS from my cell phone (Treo 755p) to my e-mail (probably to any e-mail). Is this possible with Verizon too? What about...
Paul Nevai
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May 19, 2009
2:24 pm

Hi Guys: ... I found this at http://text1.vzw.com/text/jsp/text_messaging_faq.jsp #############################################################################...
Paul Nevai
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May 19, 2009
2:30 pm

Hi JohnM: I confirm that I got your SMS from Verizon. I didn't respond via Verizon because I am not sure what plan you have; free for all or pay for all ...
Paul Nevai
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May 19, 2009
3:12 pm

Hi Guys: Thanks for the test messages received from xx97@... (twice) xx05@... (3 messages) Also from verizon and sprint. So it works....
Paul Nevai
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May 20, 2009
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Dear Friends, especially the ones in Europe: In the US, it looks like, one can routinely SMS to e-mail addresses too not just to cell phone numbers. So you can...
Paul Nevai
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Jun 17, 2009
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<quote who="Paul Nevai"> ... hmm, never heard of that one... (I use Superpager to do that, fwiw) not in Oz ... I've noticed Palm's SMS app diaplys email...
Voytek Eymont
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Jun 17, 2009
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<quote who="Paul Nevai"> ... sorry, don't know, but, if you ever want to go the other way, I use occasionally SuperPager from Brent Borghese (PC app) that lets...
Voytek Eymont
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May 19, 2009
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... I just use the appropriate web pages to send free text to cell phones. E.g., https://text.vzw.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp for Verizon customers....
Paul Nevai
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May 20, 2009
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<quote who="Paul Nevai"> ... Paul my carrier (Telstra) also has it, but, charges, I think, same cost as from mobile (25c AUS), so, it makes sense just to use...
Voytek Eymont
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May 20, 2009
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Paul, do you know about Skype? If not, you might want to google it. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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