Well, its in full swing now... you can send/receive text messages direct from an app on your phone (if you have a newer phone) rather than using shortmail.


Heres something you may not know that took me a couple days to find out...

DO NOT PUT A "1" in front of the 10 digit number you are sending a message too. You will get a successful confirmation but they WILL NOT receive your message.

Number should be like

518-867-5309


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AOL IM forwarding DOES NOT work as of yet. If you reply... you will get a successful confirmation.. but the person will not receive your IM.

You have to login to mobile AIM to use AIM on your phone still.


Any word on if this will be fixed?

 

Other than that tho... its fast... speedy... and reliable if you form your #'s correctly.


I had everyone in my phonebook with the `1` exchange because whenever im out of my home area it forces me to dial a 1. oh well.



this system is 10000000000x better than shortmail.

 

i dont know what sprint sms is

whats the difference between that and normal everyone else text messaging

 

Nothing....now. It was jacked before.

 

ohh i thought "shortmail" was what everyone else uses, nm i got it

 

Hehe, I'll mention this to the text messaging guys but you know what? It's took them so long to even get text messaging right...chances are these fixes are long time coming I guess.

Anyway I'm gonna get T9 to default in the NEXT phone.

 

sweet ken

btw... despite the oddities... the SMS system has been super reliable. first couple days messages were taking forever...

but i send at least 100msgs a day and they havent missed a beat in a week!

working great.