February 3rd, 2006
Google Launches Free SMS Text Messaging
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Talk about minimal. No logo, no muss or fuss, but it’s free and it’s from Google. Not long ago we covered a free SMS text messaging platform called Teleflip that did the same thing, but it captured your message via an email address which made the exchange feel a little less private.
We Say: Google SMS doesn’t use your email but you need to know the carrier of the recipient to get your message through, so no big technical breakthrough here. Teleflip figures out the carrier for you, which is liberating, but you need to use a Teleflip email address.
–Try Google SMS Here
–More About Teleflip
Beau says:
I’m not sure what is meant by “free” here. My carrier (Verizon) charges 10cents to send a text message from the phone, and 2cents to receive the message (unless the message is from the carrier, such as when the send the confirmation # of my bill payment). For verizon, one can use Vtext.com to send a free text message to any verizon phone…but the recipient still pays the 2cent charge. It’s great for me when texting my girlfriend because rather than pay 12cents per message (10 for me to send, and 2 for her to receive), I only pay 2.
My guess is that Google is providing just another service to send text messages. I hope nobody gets a directory of MTNs and sends out spam on this thing…at 2cents a pop.
February 3rd, 2006 at 3:43 am
Jeff says:
It’s my understanding that sending text spam or telemarketing towards cellphones is illegal. Not “kind of” illegal in the sense of the CAN-SPAM joke, but the “we will immediately levy crushing fines upon you” sort of illegal. Anybody confirm this?
February 3rd, 2006 at 6:36 am
ed3 says:
And naturally my carrier (US Cellular) is not on the list…
February 3rd, 2006 at 6:40 am
dars says:
This is not anything new. I’ve been doing this for at least a couple of years by just using any email app and sending to # @ carriers suffix. For example #@tmomail.net
February 3rd, 2006 at 7:15 am
Shadow says:
What he ^ Said
February 3rd, 2006 at 8:39 am
Charles says:
You guys must be big Digg readers. It’s new because Google is doing it now. Yes, yes, yes there have been ways to send txt messages without using your phone for years, but that’s not the point.
I don’t even understand how saying ‘it’s not new’ contributes to the discussion anyway.
February 3rd, 2006 at 9:44 am
Sean Brody says:
Here is the catch. This service will only work if you have the google toolbar installed.
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That is what the send message command got me.
February 3rd, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Charles says:
Interesting… I sent a quick test message to my phone and it came through just fine.
However, I did get the error message you describe, or something like it, but the text message still went through.
February 3rd, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Mr. Pointy Head says:
I’ll pass
February 3rd, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Pete says:
Since this is e-mail based, I see a huge gateway for spam here. Being illegal really means nothing here since hiding/changing of e-mail sources seems to be what spammers do best. Maybe I’m wrong here but we’ll see.
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harish5618 says:
Interesting… I sent a quick test message to my phone and it came through just fine.
My guess is that Google is providing just another service to send text messages. I hope nobody gets a directory of MTNs and sends out spam on this thing…at 2cents a pop.
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July 7th, 2007 at 6:40 am
Jake says:
I agree with the anger felt on how people think it’s new just because google started doing it. places like peekamo have been doing it for a while. you can even go as far as saying peeakmo is better than the google text service because it’s dedicated to jsut that.
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:31 am
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October 21st, 2007 at 9:09 am
hun says:
HI! I dont can send sms cause the numberits not 10 character!+36(country)30(serviceprovider)3214547
Who know how i can send sms?
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