Epileptick
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Hey there kids, 
I have been pulling so much hair out lately trying to find a 100% FREE, Canadian compatible, SMS from PC (and/or Jailbroken iPhone) as well as receive SMS to PC.
My idea program would be exactly like a messenger application for any PC OS (and iPhone too) but instead of inputting an email address to add a friend - that's right kids...you put the phone number! Cool eh? ...Too bad no one else thinks so. Or thinks it's cool enough to create this app for us.
You're probably thinking "that's great but why post that here epi?" and then I would answer; ....well you see MSN live messenger is the ONLY app that says you can send SMS and it actually does. But it doesn't work 50% of the time and even if you import your contacts to the iPhone messenger live app you don't can't add/see/use phone numbers in any way.
I have 3 major questions regarding this mess of a situation:
- How does the core mechanics for sending/receiving SMS through messenger work? I know that some apps use email extensions that some providers have implemented into a unique email/phone number hybrid-type address. Is this what msn uses? Or even better yet...just tell me how the heck I can do this, even if it's using another application. (keep in mind I'm in Canada)
- Is there a way to SMS through the iphone app and I just didn't realize it?
- Is Messenger open source? Because if it is or I can get a version that is....since I'm positive that it's possible to make all this work, I am sure I can get someone to code an add-on that will do it.
Since you can send SMS half the time, that tells me it's certainly possible to do this...which is why I am not giving up. However I still don't understand why there are hundreds of apps that claim to do this and do not do it. I can understand if cellphone providers didn't like it so they hired a team of hackers go search the internet for apps so they can sabotage them and go back to controlling communications like the mean blood sucking vampires most corporations have shown us they can be...
But that isn't the case because I have tried so many of these apps I should have gotten one by now.
Last thing I want to write is my progress so far for the people who are in the same boat as me. There is an iphone app that again sometimes will work for Canada and it's free of course (or I wouldn't talk about it) called TextPLUS. You don't even need your phone to be jailbroken to use it! I am betting that it uses the same type of architecture messenger live uses because the messages fail about the same % of uses. And lastly, like I mentioned before, there are email address extensions you can put a phone number into for each provider but I don't like that because you can't remember all the addresses for each provider on the fly even if they all supported it (which they don't anyway).
Sorry for the long post....I get carried away sometimes.
- [epileptick]
I have been pulling so much hair out lately trying to find a 100% FREE, Canadian compatible, SMS from PC (and/or Jailbroken iPhone) as well as receive SMS to PC.
My idea program would be exactly like a messenger application for any PC OS (and iPhone too) but instead of inputting an email address to add a friend - that's right kids...you put the phone number! Cool eh? ...Too bad no one else thinks so. Or thinks it's cool enough to create this app for us.
You're probably thinking "that's great but why post that here epi?" and then I would answer; ....well you see MSN live messenger is the ONLY app that says you can send SMS and it actually does. But it doesn't work 50% of the time and even if you import your contacts to the iPhone messenger live app you don't can't add/see/use phone numbers in any way.
I have 3 major questions regarding this mess of a situation:
- How does the core mechanics for sending/receiving SMS through messenger work? I know that some apps use email extensions that some providers have implemented into a unique email/phone number hybrid-type address. Is this what msn uses? Or even better yet...just tell me how the heck I can do this, even if it's using another application. (keep in mind I'm in Canada)
- Is there a way to SMS through the iphone app and I just didn't realize it?
- Is Messenger open source? Because if it is or I can get a version that is....since I'm positive that it's possible to make all this work, I am sure I can get someone to code an add-on that will do it.
Since you can send SMS half the time, that tells me it's certainly possible to do this...which is why I am not giving up. However I still don't understand why there are hundreds of apps that claim to do this and do not do it. I can understand if cellphone providers didn't like it so they hired a team of hackers go search the internet for apps so they can sabotage them and go back to controlling communications like the mean blood sucking vampires most corporations have shown us they can be...
But that isn't the case because I have tried so many of these apps I should have gotten one by now.
Last thing I want to write is my progress so far for the people who are in the same boat as me. There is an iphone app that again sometimes will work for Canada and it's free of course (or I wouldn't talk about it) called TextPLUS. You don't even need your phone to be jailbroken to use it! I am betting that it uses the same type of architecture messenger live uses because the messages fail about the same % of uses. And lastly, like I mentioned before, there are email address extensions you can put a phone number into for each provider but I don't like that because you can't remember all the addresses for each provider on the fly even if they all supported it (which they don't anyway).
Sorry for the long post....I get carried away sometimes.
- [epileptick]
