cell phone SMS text messaging

Google & SMS: together at last

Leave it to Google to harness the power of SMS. Google Send to Phone lets you send an SMS message to a cell phone online. search Google through SMS. Google search mobile help.

It seems Google has a web interface to search by SMS from your cellphone. Try "48368" with Google's calendar.

Yahoo! & SMS: not to be undone

Yahoo also has a web interface to free SMS messages. Yahoo! lets you use SMS as a chat medium. Pretty kewl!

Starbucks & SMS

Find the nearest Starbucks by sending an SMS text message to "697289" (that's MYSBUX) followed by your ZIP code. The mermaid will reply with the locations of the three closes 'bucks.

SMS Services

Tired of paying to send text messages? Send free text messages to almost any USA cell phone provider, for free, with no gimmicks!

Get email on your cell phone. Chose who you get email from. As simple as using text messaging.

Free worldwide text messaging from your phone or from our social networking website. Peekamo is now available in 179 countries with support for over 500 mobile providers.

GizmoSMS is a service lets you send an SMS message to a cell phone through a web interface. Send free messages to any mobile phone

Schedule text messages to be sent to you in advance. Setup reminders to your cell phone with TextMemos. It's free and works with any cell phone.

AnonText offers free anonymous text messaging. They claim to not store your info and let you opt out of receiving SMS from them.

SMS: email to cell phones

You can send email to a cell phone using text messaging or SMS (short message service). SMS messages can be up to 160 character including the email address.

Each carrier has their own email addressing format but in general it's area code + phone number at carrier.com, for example 2065551234@tmomail.com for T-Mobile customers. Click on the carrier's name in the list below to navigate to their web interface (except Cingular & Virgin Mobile).

Alltell: 2065551234@message.alltel.com
Bell Canada: 2065551234@txt.bell.ca
Cellular One (Dobson): 2065551234@mobile.celloneusa.com
Cingular: 2065551234@cingularME.com
Cingular (former AT&T Wireless customers): 2065551234@mmode.com
Fido (Microcell Canada): 2065551234@fido.ca
Qwest: 2065551234@qwestmp.com
Rogers (Canada): 2065551234@pcs.rogers.com
Sprint (PCS): 2065551234@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Suncom: 2065551234@tms.suncom.com
T-Mobile: 2065551234@tmomail.net
Telus Mobility (Canada): 2065551234@msg.telus.com
Verizon: 2065551234@vzwpix.com
US Cellular: 2065551234@email.uscc.net
Virgin Mobile (US): 2065551234@vmobl.com
Virgin Mobile (Canada): 2065551234@vmobile.ca
Vodacom (S Africa): 2065551234@voda.co.za

MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service