Send SMS Messages to the top cellular providers

So your sitting at your desk and someone sends you an SMS message to your cell phone.  If you are like me, you do not want to type a message back via the small cell phone keypad, not when you have a huge beautiful 101 qwerty style keyboard in front of you.  Why oh why would I want to use this little dinky keypad to type in a message that really should have just been a quick phone call.  You know the process I am talking about.  It’s when you have to press the 1 key 3-times to get to the ‘c’, only to find out that you hit it too quickly.  Now you must hit, notice I did not say press because now I am upset… Press the key again numerous times to come back around to the ‘c’ character that I wanted in the first place…

Now if you are a BlackBerry or iPhone user, well that’s different.. It is much easier to respond with an SMS message to the person who lets face it, is saying, “I need my answer and I really do not want to waste time talking with you on the phone.” But responding via an SMS message back on my little cell phone is not my idea of communication.  It’s really more like frustration.

I thought to myself there must be an easier way to send an SMS message.  I have this powerful computer and big keyboard with all those keys to allow my stubby fingers to pres them in just the proper sequence to make sense, or at least I hope.  What I miss, well spell check will pick up and offer me a solution to my fat fingering the keys.

On to the meat of the subject, sending SMS messages to your friends and family via email.  Most major carriers have an email address established for you that allows people to use the feature of sending an email to a phone.  Keep in mind that carriers can charge per text message unless you have some unlimited daughter message usage plan.  I picked up this plan when my daughter racked up a $1,000 phone bill because of the 2,400 text messages she decided to send her boyfriend.  But alas, off subject again.

Just simply enter the address in the to: field and type in your text.  Keep in mind that you want to limit the amount of characters you use.  Most systems will restrict a message that steps beyond 115 characters.

Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com

Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com

Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com

T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net

Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com

Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com

where the ‘phonenumber’ is = your 10 digit phone number

Example: 4081234567@vtext.com

Well, there you go… No need to type in the funky little keypad to send your messages out to the world.  Of course, you could just pick up the phone to speak with the person.