4 ways to send free text messages to cell phones from your PC
Posted on October 20, 2007 at 11:20 am
Have you noticed that when you try to use some of those "send free text message to anyone’s mobile" services, half the time they don’t work? Well, most of them never worked for me and all I tried to do was send a text message from my computer at home to my Verizon cell phone! So I went ahead and tried out about 10 to 15 different services online and ended up with a list of ONLY 4 that actually worked.
Here’s my list of sites that I use now to send text messages online to mobile phones:
1. txt2day.com – Easy as heck to use, simply enter you 10 digit number, email (optional), your provider, and the text message. The reason this service is one of my favorite is for two reasons: first, if you’re sending a message to someone and you don’t know their wireless provider, you can lookup the provider based on the phone number and secondly, if someone starts to spam you using the service, you can have your number blocked so you don’t get any messages from that number.
2. Google Send To Phone – With Google’s service, you can actually count on it working. It’s very simple to use and works well. It unfortunately does not have the options like txt2day, but at least it works. However, unlike txt2day, you can install an extension for IE and Firefox to send messages directly from your browser!
3. SMS Everywhere – This is by far the simplest of all the text message sending services. All you have to fill out is the number and a message! The cool thing about his service which is an advantage over the other two is that you don’t have to know the provider at all, it figures it out for you! That’s pretty great in my book! Simply put in the number, type your message and you’re done!
4. Text’em - This service has no clear advantage over the other services and actually requires more steps, i.e. provider, email address, security code, etc, but at least it works!
All of these services are for the United States only, meaning you can only send text messages to US cell phones. Of course, you can only SEND for free, the person who receives them will be charged for incoming text messages depending on their plan.
Also, if you have an Internet-enabled device such as an iPhone, etc, you can launch these sites from the mobile browser. However, some may not work, so you can check out an application from txtDrop.com that lets you install a iPhone app for sending text messages from your iPhone.
http://www.txtdrop.com/iphone-app.php
So if you’re looking for a quick and easy way to send free SMS text messages to cell phones or mobile phones, check out these sites. Enjoy!
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December 31st, 2007 at 6:34 am
You can even use yahoo messenger or yahoo mail to send sms messages.
sux – only for US.
About the google one, change the link to toolbar.google.com/send/sms/index.php
The other link gives an error!
You can use Yahoo to send messages to mobile phones as said by Shivaranjan.
Only for US is not a good idea.
way2sms.com is website for sending free sms to any mobile phones in India. This one really works , but the problem being its an ad supported sms , i.e every sms u send will have an additional ad txt attached to it. Register and start sending messages.
Any website to send sms to india for free..? Please help me..
are there any services that let you type 5 numbers and the message no area code or anything like that????,, is just for voting like 55555 NOV <<< like that NOV is the message
I Want 2 make a small Page for to Send sms’s to any mobile in the world from my website will u pls help me by telling the code of that pages.
I really want to be sending free messages to mobiles free of charge.
dear sir
what i am looking for is sending from email to sms then translate from English to Greek
thank you
this is very good site for youth
Does anyone have any idea of a place you can send a text message from the computer in the United States to a phone n Africa??
I love to send free SMSs to any phone in India with the help of the portal way2sms.com. I really like it. I saved a lot of money with its help. Please ask its manager allow us to send 160 characters SMS from this portal and remove AD part
Does anyone know how the recipient can send a text message back to my computer, and how/where I can view that message at?
Hello sir its quite nice… But i need some sites to sms Free in india.
anyone know how to setup MS excel to send out text messages?
can anyone tell me if way2sms.com site is free of cost and that later on no charges are to be paid by us for the SMS sent from our PCs? pls let me know as soon as possible so that i can make the best use of this site of free smsing. Bye!!!
How to send free messages in Mexico?
Try askwebman.com.It is only for India but you can send free sms and that too to 10 people in one go.
It is really free(No hidden charge)
Is there a way to embed one of these services into a website in an iframe or something with cell # prepopulated so it can be used on a business’s website?
Adam — use textem.net for that!
TextEm actually has the biggest advantage over all the other sties because it lets receive texts back and store them in an inbox almost like email. You can also add contacts, etc.
From your email, you can send a text message to a Verizon phone by using area code+number@vtext.com!
Is there any free international texting especially to:
Bahamas – Turkey -Thailand- Mexico?
The website did not work for me. Can you tell me another way to send a text message to a cell phone from the computer free or not!?
You can send free text messages from txtpoint.net to any phone in North America!
smsdaak.in is another service that lets you send free SMS messages to any phone in India.
The best one doesnt work anymore but maybe there is one similar someone can tell me about all you had to to was put the 10 digit cell number @ teleflip.com from any email service and send the message your recipient could reply to the number they recieved the message from and it would be delivered directly to your inbox is there anything like that anymore????
I want to send free text messages to others even within my country (to be specific, Nigeria).
Please give me the clue. I will so much like it.
yahoo will work only after the person has accepted your friend request for mobile to ychat. most of the time you can go to their carriers site and send a text message to their phone from it if you provide your email or home number for call back. if not it will not deliver it. they do this to cut down on harassment and cyber bullying. and its about time they did, cowards hiding behind unknown texts numbers is wrong.