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Free SMS App?

Is there any app out there that lets you send free sms?

google voice

any others?

SMS is a feature of your cell provider, not the phone, so there is no magical free SMS app.
Google Voice routes incoming text via their own servers, as opposed to your provider's. It then has the option to either forward it to your phone as an actual SMS (in which case you will incur the usual charges) or via the data connection (GPRS/EDGE/3G), in which case it will be "free" since it bypasses providers' networks. However, forwarding is the default behavior unless you turn it off in your account settings at http://voice.google.com.

did you search in the market. i think there may be one ( i know there was one a while back) but how reliable it is, i cannot tell you (unlimited sms)

you could just use aim to send sms for free. as long as you have a data plan.

i know for a fact that there are free sms apps out there. search the market.

Or quit being cheap and get the data plan with unlimited texts.

This is a good question. It's either you being ripped off by the big companies or you being considered "cheap". If you have a data plan (which I'm guessing you do if you have a G1), you could just use email to text people's numbers. Most popular carriers let people receive texts from email, so if my number was (555)555-5555, you can email to [email protected] for verizon, [email protected] for AT&T, [email protected] for T-Mobile, and a few others listed here and at other places on the Internet.
To read more about the ongoing ripoff that is what we know as SMS, read below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html?_r=3
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/14/txts_r_v_pricey/
You can also find more info on it by Googling "sms ripoff".

if you use google voice then the first time you text someone your phone will ask you to use messaging or google voice, choose google voice and check the box to make it default. From that point on you will text like normal but everything will go out via google voice. The only downfall is that people have to send texts to your google voice number instead of your phone number and google voice's app sometimes has a couple minute delay on receiving the sms.

supremeteam256 said:
Or quit being cheap and get the data plan with unlimited texts.
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No! I'm sick of bending over to the carriers.
<rant mode>
I refuse to pay their exuberant prices for services that cost them NOTHING. I already pay for data (btw, the US data plans are one of the most expensive in the world), so how is it that different from text? I understand charging extra for MMS since it puts extra load on the network, but friggin' TEXT?!? Come on. The only reason there hasn't been a major public outrage about this ridiculous scam is because the silent majority of texters are teenagers whose phone bills are paid by mommies and daddies.
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N1, Handcent, Google Voice, myTouch 3G

*sorry for the rambling, trying to provide as much information as possible*
When I configure my Google Voice (GV) app, the SMS from Handcent all come thru my Google Voice number. By doing this, I'm able to ensure that multi-part messages are received by the recipient in proper order.
My girlfriend has the myTouch 3G. When she uses her Handcent with GV not configured her multi-part messages show up in my Handcent out of order. When she downloads and configures GV, any messages she sends from GV show her GV number and any she sends through Handcent show her phone's number. The text's she sends thru GV show up in order, which is nice, but she really enjoy's using Handcent.
Does anyone know how to configure her Handcent so it sends SMS thru her GV number?
PS - I find it odd that the multi-part messages I receive in MY Handcent aren't combined. I have that checked in the Handcent settings, but it's not performing that operation.
PSS - If there's another messaging app that achieves sending and receiving SMS messages in the proper order AND combines them without the need of GV, my girlfriend would probably be willing to switch. I just hope the issue isn't t-mobile's services screwing up the order of the SMS messages.

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Texting that uses the data plan?

Is there an texting app that uses the data plan instead of text plan? I currently only have 200 txts per month and don't want to go over it. I believe iPhone has that type of app and hopefully Android would have one too.

i believe google voice does this

systoxity said:
i believe google voice does this
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Can confirm from personal experience -- just make sure you turn off SMS alerts in GV settings. In other words, the app on your phone checks for SMS but GV doesn't send a real SMS to your phone.

I don't know if this is still true, but almost every carrier allows txtx from emails.
Example everyone on att has an email address that it [email protected]
If you email them at this address (it will use your data plan), and they will receive it as a txt.
Not sure if ATT changed this you might want to verify that this will go over data.

Bjd223 said:
I don't know if this is still true, but almost every carrier allows txtx from emails.
Example everyone on att has an email address that it [email protected]
If you email them at this address (it will use your data plan), and they will receive it as a txt.
Not sure if ATT changed this you might want to verify that this will go over data.
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That does work, but if that person receives your txt and replies back, I think it comes back to your phone as a SMS. So you still use one SMS.
Try Google Voice. You can send SMS from it and when they reply back it goes to your Google Voice number in lieu of your real cell phone number. That way it comes in to the Google Voice app. But just as someone else recommended, make sure you turn off SMS notifications, otherwise every time you get a voicemail or txt message google will send you an SMS message to notify you.

or use google talk, its quicker, and they have a BB/Android/iOS client... AND its already installed on your phone.

I just tried TALK last night, and I have Google Voice. I can get messages, but and reply to them.
But I can't figure out how to send a text to someone in my address book whom I have not received a text from yet. The only people who show up in the contacts list for TALK are people who have Google IM set up in email, and that is very few.
Any tips?

ewingr said:
I just tried TALK last night, and I have Google Voice. I can get messages, but and reply to them.
But I can't figure out how to send a text to someone in my address book whom I have not received a text from yet. The only people who show up in the contacts list for TALK are people who have Google IM set up in email, and that is very few.
Any tips?
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When I go into my regular contact list and tap Send Message I get the option to choose Messaging, Handcent or Google Voice to send the message with. What happens if you just tap send message on a contact?
Edit: Oh you said Google Talk. I didn't know you could send text messages using talk. Nevermind then! But you can use Google Voice. Additionally you can set Google Voice notification to e-mail instead of SMS so you'll be e-mailed when you get a new SMS.

That is interesting. It does NOT come up and ask me how to send it. It just tries to send it.
Now, here is something maybe: I did not ever see any insructions that I need to install Google Voice on my phone. I just now went to the market and searched for it, and am installing right now. (Google seems to me to be horrible about providing documentation/instructions).
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Ok, it is installed. I just went to contacts, selected send message, and it is the same.
Another thing...I have seen demos that if you swipe a contact to the left it goes into message, and to the right it calls. It calls no matter how I swipe.
Another note: I do not have SMS messaging with AT&T, and in fact I have it turned off, because I don't want people sending me SMS that I get billed for. I wonder if that could have anything to do with this.
By the way, I had been told I needed Google Talk to get the TEXTs that others send me. But...that was when I was on a WinMo phone. Maybe I don't need Google Talk. Maybe I just need to figure out how to get Google Voice working on this phone. Alathough I will say that the text message I did get from a friend I'm trying to test with came in via Google Talk.

Got it working. The install of voice on my phone helped

brandonb81 said:
When I go into my regular contact list and tap Send Message I get the option to choose Messaging, Handcent or Google Voice to send the message with. What happens if you just tap send message on a contact?
Edit: Oh you said Google Talk. I didn't know you could send text messages using talk. Nevermind then! But you can use Google Voice. Additionally you can set Google Voice notification to e-mail instead of SMS so you'll be e-mailed when you get a new SMS.
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I'm pretty sure Google Talk is more like a chat IM service than a text messaging service. The person you are wanting to chat with has to have the client installed on their phone as well.
I think Google Voice is the best option for free text messages. You can get a free new phone number, then you just open Google Voice and text away. Anybody who replies to your SMS, their txt will come into Google Voice for free. You can send and receive free text messages all day long.

Not paying AT&T for a texting plan is definitely going to be nice! Thanks for the info.

derek4484 said:
That does work, but if that person receives your txt and replies back, I think it comes back to your phone as a SMS. So you still use one SMS.
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It will come back to you as an e-mail if you send it that way. I've texted my mom a few times this way and the reply shows up as an e-mail.

Google voice is open now. You'll have a new #, but free texts over data. Very good push integration too.
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Yep Google talk is the way to go!
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derek4484 said:
That does work, but if that person receives your txt and replies back, I think it comes back to your phone as a SMS. So you still use one SMS.
Try Google Voice. You can send SMS from it and when they reply back it goes to your Google Voice number in lieu of your real cell phone number. That way it comes in to the Google Voice app. But just as someone else recommended, make sure you turn off SMS notifications, otherwise every time you get a voicemail or txt message google will send you an SMS message to notify you.
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Email method works. When the person replies, it would come to email, not as text... I used this method over an year, before I switched to google voice recently.

Ping chat works great
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SMS messages from beyond?

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this. I've got a dell streak 7 on a tMobile pay as you go plan that does NOT have SMS. When I try to send SMS with the built in messaging app I receive an error, PLUS I've confirmed with Tmobile that not only does this plan not HAVE messaging I can't add it either.
However... I'm CONSTANTLY getting text message notifications in my notification bar. I'm looking at nearly a dozen right now just since the last time I cleared them. Where are they coming from? Do I or do I NOT have SMS? Can I make these stop but shutting off SMS somehow? Without messing up my google voice?
Tahnks.

Your sms is coming from your Google voice acct. Go into your google voice acct and see if you can disable sms. Or on your Dell Streak go to setting, account & sync, select your Google voice acct and uncheck the mail sync option. this way will prevent you from receiving your Google mail also.

Now I use the SMS on my google voice...and the SMS messages I've received thru google voice are NOTHING to do with those thru the built in app. The google voice messages are messages I've sent and received, but the others are almost nonsense...... like spam email subjects sort of
Thanks.

[Q] Google Voice, LG Revo & Verizon Wireless [Texting Q's]

I have activated GV on my Revo (using the Number provided by GV) and I am experiencing an issue I have never encountered with other android devices on other carriers.
When I send a text using the stock messaging app the message caller id to the recipient displays my actual cel # (not my GV number) (either in the stock ROM or gingervolt 1.3). If I receive a text with a person using my GV # it will go in both the GV app by google and the stock messaging app - if I reply to that message it WILL use my GV number (even from the stock messaging app). So only if I originate a text from the stock messaging app the my number shows up to the recipient as my cel# (not GV #)
My questions are these:
Is this how Google Voice works on the verizon wireless network?
Or is there something wrong with my setup?
I have been very thorough and have been able to get this functioning properly with carriers like Sprint and T-Mo using Android and non android devices.
Thanks in advance for any assistance the community can provide.
-Matt

Pretty sure you can only send text from the google voice app. In settings choosing Use Voice To Make All Calls from this phone only refers to voice calls. Unless I am missing the setting also but been through it several times. I know Verizon blocked the voicemail feature
EDIT: Actually try Handcent sms.. just sent txt to my gvoice # and received it on both handcent and Gvoice..
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drt054 said:
Pretty sure you can only send text from the google voice app. In settings choosing Use Voice To Make All Calls from this phone only refers to voice calls. Unless I am missing the setting also but been through it several times. I know Verizon blocked the voicemail feature
EDIT: Actually try Handcent sms.. just sent txt to my gvoice # and received it on both handcent and Gvoice..
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I'm only talking about texting. I have the same problem with Handcent as well. The only time I can originate a text message where my gv # will show to the recipient is from google's gv app.

Nevermind.. you want all txts to come from your gvoice#, right?
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Right by using the stock messaging app (like I have done many times before with other devices on other carriers).
If you send a text from handcent or the stock messaging app (not the google voice app) does it show as your GV# to other people even if you originate the text?
-Matt

I sent a txt msg to my personal email and a buddy and it came from my vzw#..
I sent a txt msg to my GV# from handcent and said sender was my GV#. From GV app sent a txt to my vzw#, replied to it from handcent and checked message details and it was sent from my gvoice#
IMO Verizon blocked sending txts from anything but your vzw# because if everybody would do it then and would never have to pay vzw for texting again. But can't explain why you can reply to a GV# and it will come from your GV#..

drt054 said:
I sent a txt msg to my personal email and a buddy and it came from my vzw#..
I sent a txt msg to my GV# from handcent and said sender was my GV#. From GV app sent a txt to my vzw#, replied to it from handcent and checked message details and it was sent from my gvoice#
IMO Verizon blocked sending txts from anything but your vzw# because if everybody would do it then and would never have to pay vzw for texting again. But can't explain why you can reply to a GV# and it will come from your GV#..
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Hmm.... That is what I thought it is on Verizon's end. Thanks for confirming this.