[Maemo 5] WiFi Texting?
 

Hey guys does anyone know, or has anyone created a web text app for North America? I've seen the one working for Irish mobiles "WebTexter" but none for here.

I've seen two for the iphone "SMSenger" and "freetext" just wondering is there one out I can get here. Hate the charges for sending messages, I'm trying to get everything down to data so I can get a cheap data plan and be done with all this other crap!

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I use Google Voice to avoid per message charges.

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I'd just like to be able to receive texts to my regular number when in WiFi range but no mobile signal... Any idea how that could be achieved?

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Google voice eh, does that work outside of America though I'm in Canada have they allowed it for up here yet?

Update: Ok tried it but it says the user on the other end will be charged for the message is that true??

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That would be nice but difficult well if not impossible, the servers that send the messages aka the phone company you are with would have to send them direct to a static IP "your phone" and you would have to create a link with them.

It would be exactly like P2P but with a maze of obstacles in the middle e.g. routing protocols and also different encapsulations to figure out such as the SMS protocol and to wrap that in IP or visa versa.

I might be wrong on this I'm just going by what I know personally be nice if anyone else had an idea on the matter.

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I have the texts delivered to my email, which in turn is delivered to my phone. That keeps the process all free. Then I can respond using Google Voice via the browser.

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Doesn't work up here, dam thing I was all excited and all, carrier is not recognised. Thanks for the idea though this will have to wait for a bit until Google get up here.

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I reside in Canada and SMSenger has worked for me (both in Can and US). I haven't had any problems and neither have my friends (who are with different carriers). My biggest hangup was the inability to reply but they've fixed it in an upgrade and works great in the latest version.

Add: confirmed, Google Voice is currently available in the US only.

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Is SMSenger available on the Nokia n900??

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As you mentioned WebTexter was started mainly for Irish mobiles but also supports betamax providers which will give cheap but not free sms.

I gave a quick look at the one's you mentioned but couldn't find info on what I'd need to integrate SMSenger to webtexter. For freetext they use a captha seems to need javascript to work so would be awkward to integrate to webtexter. If anyone has information on the http transaction needed to send to them I could possibly integrate them.

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Yes you could look at a betamax provider like http://www.voipbuster.com/en/sms-rates.html
Webtexter works fine with that one.

But as you can see in the above rates USA is almost the most expensive one to send sms to.. But i have no idea what you normally pay for sms in the states?
You can look if other betamax providers have better rates for you:
http://backsla.sh/betamax (this is just phone rates, there the usa is very cheap, even mobile phone calls are mostly 0, thats really cheap compared to my countries to mobile phone calls, which are really ridiculous for the most part)