SMS Touch: Send Free Text Messages Through Email

Gizmodo found this 12/2/2008 on itunes.apple.com (flag)

From the maker of handy iPhone landscape typing program TouchType, SMS Touch is an iPhone app that allows users to send unlimited text messages without paying for an SMS plan. It's a clever idea. Avoid that $15 unlimited texting plan from AT&T by using your free email to send SMS messages. ... (link)

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SMS Touch: Send Free Text Messages Through Email [IPhone Apps]
Published 12/2/2008 by Mark Wilson at Gizmodo
... In other words, you can send SMS messages while all the while communicating in email. Priced at $5, part of that fee goes to ongoing backend support for the program. And if you're interested, it'll pay for itself three times in one month anyway. [SMS Touch] ...

iPhone App Delivers the Gift of Free Texting
Published 12/2/2008 by Brian X. Chen at Wired: Gadget Lab
A new application enables iPhone owners to type text messages in landscape mode -- and even better, it sends these messages for free. SMS Touch, a $5 app available through the App Store, displays a landscape keyboard and works with your contacts list to send SMS messages. The messaging is free because instead of sending an SMS, the app e-mails the message through an SMS gateway, which eventually reaches the recipient's phone in the form of a text. True, you can already do this manually over e-mail, but that would require memorizing the phone ...

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SMS Touch: Send Free Text Messages Through Email [IPhone Apps]

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From the maker of handy iPhone landscape typing program TouchType , SMS Touch is an iPhone app that allows users to send unlimited text messages without paying for an SMS plan. It's a clever idea. Avoid that $15 unlimited texting plan from AT&T; by ...

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