Comments on: Free SMS & Text Messages, Redux

By: sue

sue — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:03:52 +0000

How to you text to short numbers, like those for some contests?
I looked at txt drop (trying for the new redbox offer) and they only take 10 digit numbers.
Any help for those of us without a phone that has texting?

By: stoppingby

stoppingby — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:25:40 +0000

Some of the phone companies (Verizon, AT&t) have links that allow you to send a text from the computer to a phone. Just go to their home page and look for a link to text mobile phone.

By: lost4my4mind

lost4my4mind — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:00:05 +0000

Textfree is a app that also lets you text online on the site http://www.pinger.com/textfree/ hope this helps! thanks for all ur hard work

By: michelle

michelle — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:06:50 +0000

I’m going to Tortola (Virgin Islands) this summer and I’m looking for a cheap/free way to call home (maybe 3 times while I’m there) … was wondering if anyone knows of a great way to do that!

By: Surfinthenet

Surfinthenet — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:22:23 +0000

How are the text “free”? I tried it out by sending one to myself to a prepaid, and it deducted .30. I guess it would deduct a dollar sending it the regular way. It’s free to send, but not free to retrieve I guess. Either way, you’ll pay.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:29:06 +0000

Yahoo messenger also has an sms feature.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:52:02 +0000

Goob,

You forgot to mention http://textonlinefree.com which offers free text messaging world wide. Good list though.

-Ray

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:15:33 +0000

When you text someone through AIM, its considered a web text so unless they have a plan for that like unlimited data, it’ll be an extra expense on their phone bill.

By: tyzzy

tyzzy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:59:37 +0000

yahoo instant messenger also allows sending sms messages
since i don’t have a cellphone i sometimes send her messages
when she is at school or places where she isn’t able to take a phone call

By: Joey Z

Joey Z — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:30:30 +0000

This seems like a GREAT offer! Hopefully you’ll take Joe’s advice and review the site he posted.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:27:41 +0000

Hey Goob,
If you do a 2009 list, might you consider reviewing http://www.textReminders.net? You can send free SMS messages right on the homepage. It’s also got a number of other cool features.

By: Dante

Dante — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:26:02 +0000

Okay people here are two easier ways to acomplish this:
1. If your friend has email on their phone have them send you an email it will look something like 1123456789@messagealtell.com, and then add that address to your contacts and BOOM you can message them any time for free (at least for you).

2. go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?mode=details

and look up the suffix dealy (the thing that goes after their number OR type their number followed by “@teleflip.com” and that will forward the message, when the reply to the message see step 1.

By: MobileFreak

MobileFreak — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:27:22 +0000

Correction – we were not in the 2007 list. Let us know what improvements we should make for your 2009 list!

Cheers!

By: MobileFreak

MobileFreak — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:24:59 +0000

For those that want to try sending anonymously, here’s an alternative to AnonTxt:
http://www.mobilemammoth.com/send-text-message

Goob – we were on your original list last year, and yes we are still around! We’ve recently launched a text message tool (in beta) for India users as well at
http://www.mobilemammoth.com/send-text-message/india

Great round-up once again!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:37:39 +0000

Fone Finder is not longer a great site for determining the phone carrier since the ability to keep your phone number regardless of the carrier. I searched one of my phone numbers and it comes up as Nextel, which was correct when I originally purchased the phone before importability. I have switched changed to Verizon.

By: candace

candace — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:33:57 +0000

oh sorry Goob, I forgot to mention that that I was replying to Cheris post. I don’t know where my brain is around this time of year.

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:10:48 +0000

ForeverSMS is another service you may wish to add to the list. It has a nice iGoogle gadget that lets you send text messages right from your iGoogle page.

By: Goob

Goob — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:27:13 +0000

Huh?

By: candace

candace — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:43:46 +0000

You know, i’ve hear of these internet rapscallions that go on websites just to “raid” them. most of them contain 12-16 year-old kids that think there cool cause there on the internet.

By: Goob

Goob — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:51:47 +0000

Wow, that’s pretty weak! It was working this morning when I tried it. Thanks for bringing that up, though!