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How To Send SMS With An iPhone or iPod Touch

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
by Matt

As you know with the iPod Touch you have full access to any web page, assuming the page doesn’t have flash :), so you can access your e-mail account as normal, but did you know you can also send SMS messages, aka text messaging, with it to? So how do you do this? Its easy and of course free to you!(You can also do this with the Mail App, assuming your iPod Touch is jailbroken)

First you need someones full phone number, with area code like so 9125551234

Second you need to go to your e-mail page like Gmail or Yahoo and hit compose, in the “TO:” area type in the persons phone number with the following after the number, @teleflip.com

Sample: 9125551234@teleflip.com

Third type an e-mail like normal but keep it as simple as possible, remember they are reading this on their phone they don’t care to read a book!

Then hit send! That simple!

When you send the e-mail Teleflip automatically converts the e-mail to a SMS and sends it to the phone, remember that person is charged their normal texting rates.One warning though if you send this with Yahoo it sends a weird code as the mail sender, so please sign your message so the person reading the SMS will know it is. On the other hand I do not have this problem with Gmail as it displayed my e-mail name.So you can text back and forth with no cost to you and its as simple as sending an e-mail!If you know of a better way or have any tips please leave them as a comment.

24 Comments

Nick

December 30th, 2007
at 10:40am

thanks

Tim

January 3rd, 2008
at 1:11pm

How would u sen a text to 07810468241

Matt

January 3rd, 2008
at 3:20pm

Not sure, I believe the service is only for numbers within the United States.

Brian

January 3rd, 2008
at 3:32pm

An easier(?) way if you have an AIM account:

1. Go to http://www.meebo.com on your iPod Touch/iPhone

2. Sign into your AIM account

3. In the screenname space type +1 then the phone number (For example if the phone number was 123-456-7890 then it would be +11234567890).

4. It will be sent as a free text message (for you) and as long as the receiver replies to the original text then you will get replies for free.

That’s it.

michael

January 6th, 2008
at 2:05pm

where can i find the app needed to send an SMS from my ipod touch??

Matt

January 6th, 2008
at 5:07pm

Hey Michael you can use a gmail account, just open up gmail.com in the Safari browser and thats what I use.

Joe Richards

January 7th, 2008
at 5:02am

Please note, this isn’t useful useful if you are the 95.3% of the world GSM phone owners who live outside the US. GSM wasn’t invented in the US, either.

Thanks though, useful for sending texts to American friends, that’s something.

Michelle

January 7th, 2008
at 12:33pm

You can also use aim…
you add buddy and put +121412345678 and then add to list, it should show up in the online section other wise you did it wrong,

good luck

8gb

January 12th, 2008
at 10:13am

how sending txt msg. in UK? what should i use? tnx!

8gb

January 12th, 2008
at 10:14am

Edit:

how about sending txt msg. in UK? what should i use? tnx!

Matt

January 12th, 2008
at 11:00am

Hey 8gb,

I live in America my friend so I only know how to do this with American phones, sorry

you might want to try and google something like this

“send UK sms via e-mail”

mitchy

January 12th, 2008
at 12:10pm

I agree with brian it is a lot easier to use aim. Some of the best websites to use are meebo.com or also beejive.com and sign into your aim account and add the buddies phone number like ex. +14159890786 thus is the easiest way to send SMS messages

thomas

January 16th, 2008
at 12:16am

is it possible to recieve text messages back on your touch?

Adam

January 18th, 2008
at 3:03pm

I can’t receive texts back to my Touch (they got to my mobile) but I can send them. I built this app today - click here. It uses the Sipgate (VoIP) API.

dante

January 19th, 2008
at 7:57pm

you can go to podcade.com and search by alphebetical order and you will fine send sms’s

zzz

January 26th, 2008
at 5:47pm

I can recieve messages but can’t send

Cody

December 29th, 2008
at 9:01pm

the best way to txt or send SMS with an iPod touch or iPhone is

1. set up a mail acount

2. in you contacs go to someone or add new and go to email adress and enter the folowing

for an AT&T user
(10 diget #)@txt.att.net
ex. 5555555555@txt.att.net

for verison
(10 diget #)@VTEXT.com
ex. 5555555555@VTEXT.com

sab

January 12th, 2009
at 11:48pm

or you can go to http://www.ohdontforget.com/
and send a message from there free and easy but you might have to tell it what phone company the number is for