It isn't strange that people are using an app on a Linux handheld to do instant messaging... It is weird that the app in question is sending the instant messages by screen-scraping a website, which then sends the messages via cellular voice networks...

I hope SMS just goes away soon. After all, soon everyone will have the Internet on their handhelds, won't they all just use Internet-based IM services...?

Sorry, off-topic, I know, I just find this whole Dialcentral-Google Voice-SMS thing really strange... like using your tablet to type up a message which is then printed out and sent via carrier pigeon....