Sending free sms via outlook or gmail?

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TeaLeaf

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#171872 4-May-2015 09:47

Is this not possible in NZ?

Overseas I just use the number and gateway as the address. Seems here they want to charge for such a service.

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#1297460 4-May-2015 09:51

Use to be but due to spammers and other issues service was stopped

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#1297489 4-May-2015 10:45

So called spammers :-)

Oh they spamming us, will stop free service and start charging :-)

Jokes.

Fair enough.

Just hate typing long SMS on my phone, although I just use voice now so meh. but hard to imbed urls etc.

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#1297504 4-May-2015 11:08

Connect phone to PC and use 3rd party app, VodafoneNZ offer Free2txt as well for on-net SMS

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#1297505 4-May-2015 11:11

Will that work with a windows nokia on xt?

Also any tips for a good free app.

Thanks

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#1297510 4-May-2015 11:19

Search Google and the Windows App store

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#1297512 4-May-2015 11:45

TeaLeaf: So called spammers :-)

Oh they spamming us, will stop free service and start charging :-)

Jokes.

Fair enough.

Just hate typing long SMS on my phone, although I just use voice now so meh. but hard to imbed urls etc.

Why not just use Mighty Text (http://mightytext.net/)? Probably one of the most useful things I have on my phone.

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#1297535 4-May-2015 12:00

Unfortunately because in all there brilliance creating amazing voice recognition and personal assitant software they seemed to have wiped the ability for Windows phones to interface with a PC for SMS.

Even Symbian had this feature.

Windows is still amazing hardware but that featureless annoys me.